Because people don’t get the point of it, it seems. We’re not talking about parents who meet the legal standard for criminal negligence, because if absolutely anyone can have that mental short-circuit that tricks them into thinking they’ve already dropped their child off and that it is entirely safe to leave the car…

Except there’s no defense (again, please somebody raise the critical thought bar, quickly!). What I was pointing out was that Catholicism at least does not have the abuse built into it. COS’s abuses are not an example of an otherwise non-abusive system that was corrupted or co-opted over time - it was abusive from the…

No. I am part German, and I can tell you with whatever authority that fact grants me that the Nazis were just people, not some supernatural evil incarnate. And for many of us it is still quite personal and relevant: I still have a few living relatives who were in the Hitler Youth as young children. Hitler wasn’t a…

You are in denial about the fact that these are fascists; this is the rise of American Fascism. Here is a definition of fascism.

“Remember that we just spent 8 years listening to the right call Obama and everyone near him a Nazi”

First, I am a woman. Second,

Hearing the news that Trump has accepted Obama’s mentorship and reading this today actually makes me feel better for the first time since Tuesday. God I will miss having Barack and Michelle in the White House but if he can keep Trumps ear for any time at all I feel like things might just be okay. Obama knows how to…

Exactly. We act as if it were the candidates who at fault. Trump is nothing more than a culmination of awfulness in this country. I hate his supporters. He is and has always been a grifter of the highest order. A close look at his dealings and that lays bare everything about him and his family. The people who voted…

The problem is that the Democrats’ core beliefs and principles are never cohesive. The Republicans are pretty damn clear about what they stand for and have voters who consistently support it whereas the dems seem to be just a shaky collection of interest groups aligned for political power.

I don’t think he’ll have the health to be president. Trump looks like he’s a quadruple bipass surgery away from giving the keys over to Pence. I know, I know, Pence is much worse, but at least he knows how the government works.

you know what i will miss most about obama?

Amen. Leave New York for a few fucking minutes and don’t look at us folks who live between the coasts like sad zoo animals living in a relentless hell where we can’t go see Hamilton on a given Wednesday night or eat at the world’s greatest Korean German fusion farm to table restaurant. That would be a good start.

No one told pollsters or newspeople they were voting Trump because to do so was to be deemed a racist.
The culture had decided this was the case.

The baby-kissing approach is no guarantor of a promising political career. Harambe tried that, and now he’s stuck in a dead-end write-in campaign.

Voted for her this morning. Voted for a woman for president! Yes, it meant something. I cried.

I don’t see the point of this article. Anyone want enlighten me?

Psst. I’ve been on Jezebel for years, and I guess I’m a little older than the chief demographic now, and I always considered myself pretty blue, pretty educated, pretty sensitive, and pretty empathetic, and with horrifying regularity, I learn that I am a Neanderthal woman who is upholding rape culture, objectifying…

The internet has made one of the most passive forms of entertainment in existence, television, utterly fucking exhausting.

Why focus on things like rape prevention when we can have a hypothetical conversation about whether or not these sentient robots are being sexually assaulted? Like don’t you know that robots need consent too?

But by focusing on fake problems and even making up problems allows me to not focus on real problems in the world.