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Team Marty.

They are both terrible in their own special ways. At least with Trump, he’s not politically savvy enough to disguise the terrible. Trump is death in a flaming ball of terror; Pence is death by a thousand cuts while being slowly boiled. 

And this is my problem with all the calls for impeachment. Getting rid of Trump is awesome in theory, but in reality, it wouldn’t leave us any better off. While it would significantly reduce the likelihood of nuclear holocaust, we’ll have to start shelving “The Handmaid’s Tale” in the nonfiction section.

Perhaps you could reframe it as an opportunity to teach your child more about women’s rights, labor movements, and/or advocacy. Read a book on the subject together. Rent/go see a movie like “Hidden Figures.” Ask your child to think of a cause that is important to them, and work together to make a card or write a…

I’m finding it interesting that so many of the responses to the strike here are centered on feelings of obligations to others: to the people we serve in our workplaces, to our families, to other women. This seems, to me, to be a very female response. I’m curious whether men would have the same sense of obligation to…

Perhaps one way to be a good ally would be to set aside time on March 8 to reflect on all the ways that you see women work—-paid or unpaid, and especially emotional/affective labor—-and how you can help break down traditional gendered labor roles.

Trump is the worst, but bathmophobia (fear of stairs and slopes) is real. I’m a healthy, otherwise typical 40-year-old woman, but a set of uneven stairs, especially one without a railing, can induce a panic attack and have me in tears.

The prosperity gospel is actually fairly mainstream Protestant thinking and has been for at least the past 300 years or so, although most mainstream Christians these days are more canny in how they express it. See Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.” Also see “Worker in the Cane” by Sidney…