You nailed it. Not to mention knitting is a valuable skill practiced for centuries and represents self-reliance in an overly capitalist society- but because its primarily done by women, that automatically makes it “frivolous”.

It seems to me that the notion that female-coded things are infantilizing and not to be taken seriously is itself steeped in patriarchal ideals.

Not even. The Goo Goo Dolls were a punk-ish Replacements-style outfit turned straight up lite rock that your mom listens to when she fills the hot tub, lights the candles and breaks out the toolbox of dildos. There’s not a single song in their discography that one would honestly call “post-grunge.” They’re not even a…

i’m trying to buy a house right now.

Seriously at this point how the fuck is this real life. It’s too much to absorb. Like my new reality has shifted too quickly and I can’t fucking handle it. If I had the money I seriously would just go and herd cows at this point. The world has gone fucking mad.

None is acceptable. But a one-time thing is not abusive. As a go-to form of behavior modification, yes it is abusive and not effective.

I feel like we have decades of research demonstrating that AT BEST physical punishments are no more effective than alternatives and are associated with troubling outcomes. You’re essentially teaching a child when someone smaller and weaker does things they don’t like, that a physical reaction is appropriate.

I don’t feel spanking is acceptable. Beyond that I don’t think it works well in terms of improving a child’s behavior.

It might be permissible hitting, in your view, but spanking is definitely hitting.

Yet if you did the same thing to an adult, it would be assault.

I think it’s abuse. How hard is “don’t hit people”?

Probably best not to hit little kids.

I know, right? He’s been doing Jon Stewart level work in dissecting Trump.

Take anyone successful at standup comedy and they will mop the floor when handling a buffoon.

The fact that he can sit there and laugh is perfect too, because it’s what is expected of him and is extremely damaging to their argument and to their mind frame as a whole. No one on Trump’s team are people who don’t mind being laughed at, so the ability to both shut them down and essentially say “lol k” at the same…

He’s doing better to pin her down than almost any actual newspeople.

“That’s not true.”

“Wikileaks” indeed.

To be fair, his whole life has been a pissing contest.

please be true please be true please be true please be true please be true