If girls can wear make up in their driver's license pictures, then so should this kid.

Really, I showed my Italian SO this and her first question is why anybody would ever eat microwavable pasta.

Cute! But good luck getting Italians to microwave their pasta, Findus. They literally make stovetop pasta for their dogs over there.

Actually, there's very little research on intimate partner violence within LGBTQ relationships, but much of the better research on it suggests that rates of violence within same-sex relationships are roughly the same as rates within heterosexual relationships. If lesbians are beating each other up at the same rates…

But it's women's fault for existing. Why can't they just not exist?

A lot of other states are in this situation do to cities typically being home to more minorities and drawing in younger folk for school and work.

It's probably more of an urban vs. rural+suburban thing. I think if it were just rural areas against urban ones then a lot of states would be decidedly in the blue because not that many people live in the country any more. I know that's what's going on in Georgia. A little more than half the state population lives in…

But look at how easy it is to describe Laverne's communication skills with words that don't have a racially-loaded past attached to them... It's so easy to just reach for other words to say the same thing that we can avoid stepping in the problematic ones.

poised, well-spoken, eloquent. I know articulate sounds like a compliment, but it really isn't when you consider JukeboxJones very valid point that it dates back to Civil War Era of separating "articulate" free Black people from slaves for example

Seriously. I applied for a job and that was one of the words I used.

Someone is saying to you "This is my experience and my emotional reaction, can you please stop using that word in that way?" and your first reaction is to deny their experience and ridicule their reaction? Homework for the day: look up the word "micro-aggression" and consider what it's like to experience a million…

The thought of Paul Ryan being pissed would make me happy about this even if I didn't support marriage equality.

Hooray for my home state not being referenced in an article about terrible mascot names and serial killers! Whoo! Go WI!

Go ahead, assholes. Tell us again how "only white people and like seven Indians" care about this issue.