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…

Sometimes people do change! Puberty and alcoholism I think are two huge motives for being a bully or abuser. Sometimes maturity and sobriety can lead to real soul-searching, regret, guilt, shame, and change. My in-laws split up 3 years ago and while they were apart, they grew as people. Now they’re back together and…

I think all of this has made it clear that lessons about consent are not being taught or just not sinking in. Men think rapists wear all black and carry knives and grab you and pull you into dark alleys or break into your house. They don’t think about alcohol or their own physical intimidation or anything. When I…

I’m not surprised she’s named Amethyst.

So Mike Pence is boring, ambitious, and moral. Damn, we certainly don’t want that in a leader!

He’s not moral, he’s moralizing. There is a big difference.

*starts to say something*

To be fair, I never watched Suits and only had a passing knowledge of her existence. But I can see how she could befuddle our senses. She said herself she basically played whatever race that she needed to be. She could EASILY pass for Dominican or something. Or Samoan or something like that. If you told me she was The…

Given the overwhelmingly positive reviews this movie is getting, I’m getting the feeling this is more a review of James Franco than the movie.

I hear this one a lot when people talk about the downside of immortality. I just can’t agree with this. There will always be something that brings you joy (or misery) to keep you from getting bored. Unless you end up in some sort of Hulk post existence world where it is just you and the heat death of the universe,…

I think it has more to do with their unwillingness to accept that privilege is a thing. They want to believe that everyone starts from the same place and the reason why white people succeed is because of hard work while all the brown people are lazy.

Good.

Here’s the simple fact: The Washington Post did journalism the right way, and Jezebel did not.

To put it more compactly: if you change Obamacare’s name to Trumpcare but leave the rest of the program exactly the same, Trump’s poorly informed, cult of personality supporters will immediately reverse course and declare it the best thing ever.

President Obama’s “health care for all” law was officially called the “Affordable Care Act” but has been nicknamed Obamacare in honor of its champion.

He’s just a good honest boy who did nothing wrong!

I suspect that the difference in culture was exactly why it was so raucous. I can imagine that for foreigners adapting to a more orderly, mannered, & restrictive culture — who had to behave every other day of the year or suffer serious professional repercussions — it would have been nice to have one single night when…

I get why people need to view things this way, it helps them cope with their own or their loved ones breakups, but the reality is if two people were together for 22 years it was because they were aiming for a lifetime. No rational human being wants to start afresh after 22 years unless the relationship is…

Certainly is sexual assault

Because the publicly stated aim of Nazis is genocide.