It kinda is, if having kids is something they DO NOT want to do.

Do your part, get out there and crank out uneducated, bitter little white babies who will vote against their own self interest for the rest of their miserable lives. It’s our only hope!

Right? I love everything about pregnancy and motherhood so far, but we’re stopping because of everything you mentioned. These dickheads act like I just want to keep my hard partying lifestyle and just don’t want the personal limitations of children like it’s a selfish thing(not a problem, you do you). Newsflash: It’s…

Then get on board with paid maternity and paternity leave and universal healthcare, as well as education funding and social services.Oh, and livable wages so that people don’t have to use food stamps and other kinds of government assistance.

I’ll tell Paul Ryan the same thing I tell my parents and all their noisy friends: you want me to have babies, create an environment where having and raising a child doesn’t cost an entire adult person’s salary and I’ll think about it.

I’ve been expecting the day they’d say this sort of shit. I’ve always believed these anti-abortion types were really scared about being “outbred” by those dirty non-Whites/immigrants they hate so much and therefore want to stop abortions to keep the White American population up.

Yeah? I should have kids? I’m in my mid 30s, unmarried, don’t own a home, and I’m still paying off extensive student loans. You fuckers have made it impossible for this generation to afford anything, and yet you think we should procreate so we can, what, have a new generation of struggling poors?

Ok, sure, asshole.

They mean White people, folks.

So like ... can I have maternity leave? Affordable prenatal care? Any treatment for my battered lady-bits after birth? Help with childcare? (My parents live very, very far away and I really like what I do for a living.) Will my daughters be able to get jobs where they won’t be harassed by their employers, or is their…

Hey, Paul, you know what would be great? If we did something about our appalling infant mortality rates, compared to other OECD nations (especially those using single payer), instead of insisting that women simply need to be pumping out more babies. You want more babies to become members of the workforce? How about…

So Paul Ryan is apparently advocating “keep ‘em barefoot & pregnant”

It’s always interesting to watch conservatives attempt humor. The references are almost always hilariously out of date, the attempts at self-deprecation are usually painfully forced, and it comes across like they decided to improv the first take and then felt it was comedy gold that couldn’t be topped. It’s like…

Have you ever been sexually assaulted? Do you know what it is like? How about, you get sexually assaulted, and then when your assaulter asks for your forgiveness you decide what that person could do in order to atone for what he or she did. THEN come back to us and talk about what is an adequate apology.

By forgiveness, you mean we forget all about it and these harassers gleefully leap back into their BMWs and they high-paying gigs, right? Or what did you mean? If you mean actual forgiveness, only their victims can provide that.

It’s almost as if forgiveness is both optional and at the discretion of the victims. The women Batali assaulted can form their own opinions of him. I’m more for atonement, myself. I don’t really care if he comes up with a pretty apology or tells people to go fuck himself right now. If he spends the next few years not…

Yea that’s my thinking, basically. I don’t think multiple degrees or a “successful career” are accurate barometers on which we can judge sanity, stability, social grace or common sense. I work with many highly intelligent engineers who also slam doors in my face, shove me out of the way to get their food at the cafe…

You are correct that no apology will ever suffice for someone who deliberately mistreated (or worse) women for decades. There is no magic combination of words to make that go away. These assholes aren’t owed forgiveness. Their honesty doesn’t matter. They are entitled to nothing but scorn. Forever. It was what they…

I gotta say, I actually thought this was the best apology we’ve seen from one of these scumbuckets. While I agree with Megan Reynolds that an apology doesn’t really “do” anything, at least Batali admitted to the behavior.

I knew the time would come for the professional kitchen’s skeletons to escape the walk-in freezer. Batali and Besh are definitely not the only ones to have engaged in this behavior. Women who work as chefs have to deal with so much misogyny and discrimination, and I hope more of them speak out about the bullshit they…