So – I’m a little busy right now to do a truly comprehensive list without getting a check for it – especially since I’d essentially be doing the author’s work – but would it not have been useful to at least list *some* of the most prominent current women whose work has been co-opted and whitewashed and erased?

I can’t agree. Oprah has done a lot of good in the world and I have no doubt of her good intentions. However, she has propped up a lot of damaging pseudoscience and has remained conveniently silent on major past errors. (Including her support of the charlatans Dr Phil and Dr Oz.) That is her privilege as a private…

Too bad several leaders of other African nations have stated on the record they wish they could ignore his dumb bigotry.

He stated that many good cops are “afraid” to be speak up b/c they will lose their jobs and the ability to provide for their families.

I’m going to guess in your rush to reply you didn’t bother to read what you were linked to when I told you I was IN THE ROOM while several of the national Dems were “being civil” … which has gotten us precisely to where we are now over a period of decades because Rethuglicans of this ilk view compromise and civility…

If you’d used a different last name & spelled “Sharonda” a different way, it’d have to get ugly because I’d think you’d been trying to diss my pledge mama.

What you, Maher, and the DNC need to learn is that democrats can’t control their base with fear. Republicans can because republicans have a monolithic voting block. A perceived attack against white Christians is a perceived attack against all republicans.

In his usual Reality TV manner – which has become that much more draconian and frightening now that he’s been handed actual power by the idiots who “voted” him in and the Russian and Rethuglican manipulators who made it possible –

You’re only supposed to watch for contrast, boo.

Transwoman here trying to get in early before there are too many comments on it.

They're Jezebel bloggers now.

Not pictured: the Gap Kids ad from just a few years ago wherein a black model was using a white model as an armrest in almost the exact same pose.

I’m going to just repost what I said yesterday over on Gawker’s article. I’ve highlighted the part that any anti-vaxxer reading this should pay close attention to.

Sorry in advance but I’m jacking this thread... new baby born a couple of hours ago. First of the season. She’s ADORABLE!!!