It was going to be a no-win situation anyways with the native Americans and magical America. Don’t bring them up, and you’re erasing them. Draw upon native traditions, and you’re appropriating them. Make some shit up entirely, and you’re caricaturing them.

100% uncontroversial take:

The domestics already make better cars than VW. This has nothing to do with lobbyists and everything to do with flaunting environmental regulations. Do you really think the EPA only targets foreign firms?

No, that’s what most of Europe does knowing the US is footing most of your defense bill.

How about just giving everyone way more vacation time that carries over. I’m not going to have children and it seems unfair that if I made a life choice that required me to miss 6 months of work I’d lose my job while my coworker wouldn’t.

I have coworkers who leave work early or don’t come in at all because they have to do something for their kids and they get upset when I give them the same treatment as someone who misses work from a hangover or leaves early to catch a movie. We all have lives. Yours isn’t suddenly more important than the rest of ours…

How do other countries finance it? Is it part of their healthcare or are the private businesses on the hook? I can see making it a part of comprehensive healthcare, but making individual businesses pick up the tab seems shitty. Not all employers are a Fortune 500 company. And if a woman has six kids should the public…

This is what I envision whenever someone talks about doing a home birth.

It can’t be optional because your SS taxes are where they’re getting the money to pay today’s retirees. It is and has always been a pyramid scheme.

That’s what I hope happened, but from the mom’s account it sounds like neither she or her daughter were aware of the actual joke until it happened? But if the kids were briefed on it, were they told anything at all about the joke? Were they told why it was “funny”? The more I think about it, the sadder I am for the…

I was only half-paying attention for most of the Oscars, but there were a few moments when people (maybe Chris Rock? at least one other dude, too) were calling for more representation/roles/awards specifically for Black people and it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t think it was intentionally exclusive and I…

There are two jokes:

Stop classifying an 8 year old (who likely has no concept of what sexual gratification is) trying to kiss another 8 year old as sexual assault. No one outside of Tumblr or a Jezebel comment section would classify it that way, and I can’t take anything you say seriously when you write that. And you don’t know what the…

yea but isn’t toilet paper taxed? i mean this is just sales tax right?

Oh my god, that was seriously f-ed up. They really need to regulate surrogacy better. That story was completely insane.

Fucking good. She helped create that child, she needs to support it financially, if not by actually being in its life. Also, I’m glad the judge made this decision, because can you imagine the precedent it would have set otherwise? There’d be men lining up demanding that they don’t need to pay child support to children…

I read this Slate article a few weeks ago and it is totally mind blowing how ill-equipped some states are for all the ethical and legal disputes that can accompany a surrogate pregnancy.

No sympathy. She wouldn’t be the first person who’s had a child with a hated ex. She doesn’t have to be involved emotionally, and it would probably be harmful if she were, but she’s liable for the child’s support.

This whole sad story makes Shepherd seem like the lady version of MRAs who are paranoid about women plotting to steal their sperm.

I am downright giddy at the thought of being able to put some money aside and properly vet my cat. It’s like I’m Cinderella.