Hell, come see us when you’ve had your first pregnancy scare, or the “oh shit, I could NEVER have a kid with this person” moment.

I definitely agree that it felt like a disingenuous phrase thrown out to lend some kind of feminist credence to Murphy’s argument.

People believe that abortion will help them because of “the patriarchal structures which insist that the womb-less male body is the default,” Murphy said, and that treat pregnancy like a disease.

Long before the current presidency, my father-in-law referred to the idea of his son taking my last name as “a little too San Francisco for his tastes”.  I still use that term all the time these days.  :P

Ahaha, I commented the same in a reply to someone else. They are beings of pure spite and toxins.

I think hippos for wrath is solid, but I think wasps have this one.  Wasps are there to ruin your life out of spite.  

It’s so weird how hair works. I have a friend whose hair went from dead straight to notably curly after a pregnancy (and has remained curly for years).

There’s no monolith—I’ve seen reactions from friends across the spectrum about this sort of thing.

I literally pulled back from the screen upon seeing that mouse, as I imagined my sweaty palms interacting with it after approximately ten seconds.

OH! I almost forgot to mention.

I would also highly recommend the Intuos line for anywhere from hobbyist to professional. I’ve used Wacom products for years now (back when the Graphire was their “professional” line and the prices were way higher for their bottom of the line stuff, but that was all I could afford at the time). They’re reliable*,…

The amount of stammering and sentences cut short there (from the WP transcript, he talks about the ERA briefly and then says “I agree that everybody, once they, in fact — anyway, my time is up. I’m sorry.”) makes me feel more like he simply had no answer to the specified questions and just tapped out, ahahah. 

I always find question dodging frustrating (and that's hardly something unique to Sanders; everyone does it) but that RISE UP, RISE UP rhetoric to every question was so fucking grating I wanted nothing more than for the moderators to cut his mic.

The second half of that interaction, wherein he valiantly tried to equivocate support for a state’s right to choose whether it would or would not create bussing policies with actual support for bussing policies, and then shut down and literally ceded the rest of his time because he couldn’t come up with a good way to…

Yeah, there’s never any really good terms—my husband and I were together for eight years before we married, and like you, were living together. We were basically a married couple. Calling him my “boyfriend” made the relationship feel trite, and “spouse” or “partner” always sounded odd to me, but I wouldn’t begrudge…

I’ve never understood how people don’t get that.

I’m comfortable using pro-abortion or pro-abortion rights, but I’ve always personally liked pro-choice because I feel it encompasses more of what I want to see—I want women to be able to safely, comfortably, and without fear make the choice they want to make. If a person wants to carry a pregnancy to term and have a…

That’s what caught me. It’s not “I want to meet someone with whom I have great conversations and a real physical spark,” it’s checkboxes next to “intelligent” and “gorgeous”.

Same. My decision to abort was without any handwringing or trauma. I never felt bad about it. But for years, I felt bad about not feeling bad.

Knowing what to do also includes regularly miscarrying embryos with genetic defects, too!