Of course she has a fridge - I’ve seen enough rich people’s kitchens on TV to know that.

They’d have Warren on the whole Native American thing the day after she went presumptive.

Well sure. I mean Trump raped some woman in a change room in a department store and no one seemed to concerned about that. Otherwise he would have been charged with rape by now. 

First, let me say that I like you and I apologize in advance for my tone.

I disagree with basically everything you’ve said here, but let’s just cut to the chase. Nothing anyone can say will convince me that Trump is the lesser of two evils. Nothing.

Since the election is a binary choice, and the media loves “bothsidesism” & “whataboutism”, I’m gonna hold fire until the GOP nominee for Pres addresses the 3 dozen claims against him...or at least until the Bros & their ilk do the same.

Nearly 100 people have died from COVID-19 in just one nursing home in my city. Abortion rights have been gutted. The courts are fucked for generations. The deficit is staggering. The environment is ruined. Our international reputation is in tatters. Nazis with tiki torches are very fine people. Racists are emboldened.…

I was going to pop down here to expound a bit but you and AnimalFurnace articulated what I was going to say pretty much entirely.

She also claimed that she told supervisors and they did nothing, but the NUT investigation found no staff members who remember her reporting anything.

I’m personally around 95% disbelief of the story. There are so many red flags with the story. She has three corroborating witnesses, but one doesn’t want to go on the record and the other, her brother, was pretty much coached to change his story by the editor of Current Affairs. Her neighbor only recently came forward…

I want to believe Tara Reade. I really do. I’ve read about it. There are some gaps. The Russian / Putin connection is troubling. However, if you look at these politicians and celebrities that assault women, it’s not usually an isolated incident. I hate saying this, but it’s going to take more women coming out against…

Tara Reade has had over 25 years, and at least three with the #MeToo movement to reveal this story. Not to mention that the original podcaster didn’t conduct proper due diligence. Yes, women should be heard, but in context. Airing it all in court of public opinion well after the fact, and with so many other…

Sure, but you’re not listed at all on your stepson’s birth certificate, so your case does not pertain to the subject under discussion, which is the wordings on birth certificates.

My first thought, reading that comment was, “if I marry my boyfriend and then demand that his daughters’ birth certificates be altered to replace their mother’s name with my own, he’d divorce me immediately for being insane.” Hell, that should qualify for an annulment. That’s some high level crazy.

But this case is specifically about the birth certificate, which doesn’t indicate who raises the child anyway, it’s apparently only meant to be a record of “the biological reality of [child’s] birth.” Their argument is that he can’t be the baby’s father on paper because he’s the gestational parent. You’re not on your…

Cue outraged conservative women demanding to be listed “mother”...

Yes...I think we must move that way. I have a kid who is trans and a kid who is non-binary (they/them pronouns), and when I talk about the latter’s pets, I can’t say “listen to your mom!” But parent is...awkward.

I think we’ll need something creative. My NB kid was AFAB, and we used to call them “sweet girl.” I kept…

Maybe ultimately the solution is to drop gendered terminology like ‘mother’ altogether. If it’s important that a birth certificate illustrate who exactly grew the baby inside their body, let’s just call them “gestational parent.” There, solved it.

Parenting roles are determined by cultural expectations not chromosomal sex. Any person can be motherly or fatherly based on how they interprete their parenthood. This is a lack of imagination from the courts. Medical records can always indicate who contributed what chromosome to the “biological reality” of the child…

“Biological reality”?