i'm poor and underemployed, so the texas women's medicaid program foots the entire cost of my pills. it's pretty much the only awesome thing about having $100 in the bank and $75,000 of school debt.

@gumbydammit: also, SUPER nice. mrteenwordpower works in her department, which granted me the opportunity to interview her for a VERY small-time article on her work regarding gender bias formation in children (extremely interesting stuff and super relevant to jezebels). she was not only helpful, but really sweet and…

@Cairn: well, you can't both punish AND teach tolerance simultaneously. if it's acting as a punishment, then you're ashamed, which is probably further entrenching your misogyny. if you're not ashamed, it's not particularly effective punishment.

@browngirlinthering: what bothers me about them is not that they likely *are* intended to embarrass, but that they're intended to embarrass by making men wear LADY colors. that's some misogynistic business right there.

@RousseMacabre: [godhatesprotesters.wordpress.com]

@Alstromeria: I'm from southern California, which also has large Latino and undocumented immigrant populations. I lived, for a long time, in very similar shoes. The city of Los Angeles—which also has a pretty good handle on the issues facing Arizona—just closed all business with the state. So I don't think it's an…

While I'm of two minds about having children participate in political action, I'm skeptical of the notion that this child has no way to comprehend the issues at play in this particular protest.

@#c23769814: well, when there's no criteria for how to identify "legal" or "illegal" on sight, and you're in Arizona, with huge Latino legal and illegal populations, skin color ends up having a lot to do with the law.

@8xoverMsOctober: It's interesting to me that negging is often seen as an alternative to coming off desperate and obsequious. ALTERNATIVELY, you could talk about something other than me altogether, and perhaps we could discover a common interest?

@kv8246: This used to happen to me on the subway all the time. I'd have headphones on and a book IN FRONT of my face and some guy would ask what I was reading. I'd take the headphones out, tell him in as few words as was polite, put the headphones BACK IN, and look back at my book. And he'd keep talking! I shouldn't…

You know what? YES, people should be allowed to dress like Ewoks. The subtext is irrelevant (I know it's not) because YES, people should be allowed to dress like Ewoks, end of story. Your move, O'Reilly.

I would be a TERRIBLE surprise-engagement subject. When mrteenwordpower proposed, I wept for about a minute before I was able to collect myself to communicate, barely coherently, that they weren't bad tears. And it wouldn't have been clear without the assurance, either—I'm not a pretty crier. Luckly, he anticipated…

For the love of whatever, she won because she's super hot. Way more so than the blond woman. I don't like to sit in judgement of women's relative attractiveness, but that is, seriously, the only THERE there.

I didn't even know "white whine" was a thing. I occasionally use "First World problems," but that's a little more loaded than I want, so I usually opt for "problems of privilege." Referred to in combination with deliberately melodramatic intonation and just a splash of the old Crazy Eye.

eff you, Palin. the collected intelligence, accomplishment, and knowledge in the faculty lounge at my East Coast women's college (if there is such a thing, which I doubt given that it's not a sitcom high school) would dwarf yours before anybody even walked in the room.

I wrote a post about this issue–and its connection to AZ’s other recent minority policy moves–on my own blog. If you’re you're for an angry leftist rant, please: [ramshacklearray.wordpress.com]

@Apollinarius: but nothing that happens in the class can prepare you for a guy who tells you that he doesn't want to wear a condom.

I can TOTALLY tell when people are on a first date, and I am always covertly watching and speculating.

@Kate Austen: I think what we need to remember is that the Daria character is a teenager—a different type of teenage character than we usually get, but still pretty self-involved and (again, differently) shallow. I think that's okay. I don't think we're supposed to admire her, necessarily—I think we're supposed to rel…

@EKane: Yeah, I teach K-1st graders, and they were born in the mid-'00s. Chew on that one for awhile.