Why? Why should you be able to own a gun if you can legally sign a contract?

Buying alcohol and renting a car are not rights granted by the constitution. Those are not “up for interpretation”.

Not a gun-nut, and I know your hyperbolizing but I’m sure their rationale is ‘mental agency’ or whatever it’s called. If you can legally sign a contract, you should be legally able to own a gun ... In which case they should be opposed to mentally disabled people from owning weapons, but ... Well, you know.

After watching the first Frozen my son told me he wished I’d die like Elsa’s parents, so he and his brother could have an ice rink in the front yard.

A solution is decriminalisation of sex work. If sex workers can be assured that under no circumstances do they risk persecution and incarceration if they seek help from police or industry support services, and if traffickers and bad johns know they can’t terrorise sex workers into not reporting crimes against them…

Well, there’s your trouble right there: that’s not a definition of “consent”.

Trafficking is a complicated problem, but shutting down ad sites doesn’t make it go away — and in fact makes it worse for those being trafficked. I nearly tore my hair out reading articles post-Backpage shutdown in which cops expressed surprise at the uptick in outdoor workers. Like, what did you morons think would…

I don’t understand why everyone thinks that women who don’t use o.b. are scared of their own blood. And I have to wonder if the women who use them have half as gory a frigging period as I do. Because I have used o.b. before when I was out of mine (on more than one occasion) and I have literally waited in the bathroom…

The patriarchy already does a pretty good job of making me ashamed of my biology, now I have to be ashamed it’s gonna destroy the planet if I don’t buy the right thing?? I mean, I get there are women out there that want to do “any little thing”, but I recoil at being asked to shoulder even more existential, emotional…

Cloth products are perfectly sanitary if you wash them properly. They may stain, but they’re clean.

Just jumping in here to correct, since people seem to be misinterpreting: this was a sarcastic statement (she’s Jewish). She was saying that she disagreed with Spencer. I included it because it underlines this very contradictory refrain we keep hearing - that bigotry is bad but Trump is great.

George Bush Jr absolutely attended CPAC. I agree with your sentiments here and in the OP, both about how crazy it all is that extremists are so normalized and about how there’s no way a group of POC of any kind could get away with a gathering like this. At the same time, it’s not new- the only thing that’s new is that…

Honestly, I know her type. I’m a queer woman, and I’ve dealt with her type over and over and had to listen to her racist and queer jokes because she thought it was okay because I’m white too, therefore, her jokes must be HILARIOUS to me, and she’s /just kidding/ about the gay jokes, what, can’t I take a joke? (And…

Ah, the Schlafly Doctrine: A woman is only allowed out of the kitchen to stand at a podium and tell all the other women to get the hell back in the kitchen.

I went to high school when Clinton was President, and there were plenty of popular kids explaining how he had to be impeached because their minister explained that the President needs to be a moral leader, and there were plenty of rich kids explaining that we needed to abolish the “death tax” because they’d be…

I describe it as “If you do not believe that women have a right to their own bodies, that women have a right to body autonomy - you cannot claim to support women”. Because, basically if you are saying that a government should be able to force a woman to remain pregnant and a government can force a woman to give…

The fact that a woman was shouted down and required a security escort for departing just the tiniest bit from orthodoxy on women’s issues would give conservatives a lot to think about, if conservatives ever thought about anything.

They wouldn’t like it one bit! A lot of the celebrities who are most vehement about saving dogs in Asia are happy to chow down on other animals. It’s weird. I have a dog I love but I understand it’s not my place to tell other people that their culture is wrong.

I will say that I saw elsewhere that Gus Kenworthy…

Why is it zero sum? I care about both. I don’t eat meat as well. Caring about horrific conditions for dogs in Korea is not hypocritical in any way.  

I hate this approach.