I didn’t know that. Maybe I’m being too judgmental or putting too much thought about how I feel about the racial politics of a podcast I’ll never listen to. But white people have a long and documented history of using bits of other cultures without involving or crediting the people from those cultures so whenever I…

St. Paul!

indianapolis!

Anyone else not in the DC are but planning on going to their local march? I’ll be at the Oakland one.

I wonder why Jon Chait didn’t get that same sense of welcoming from his women friends.

Kara, did you write the bit about the TV show knowing the Interwebz in their brilliance would pop an ad for said show in at the top of this article?

I’m going to ignore the more egregious dig at Brody Jenner because it is not 2006.

OK but the act of putting a pic of trudeau next to a pic of trump is shade, right?

I was spanked a couple times as a kid and this makes sense to me. I think the things I got spanked for at first were stuff like running out into the street/away from my mom in a parking lot, stuff that was dangerous and probably terrifying to my parents. When I was a little older (like 6 or 7?) I occasionally got…

I am completely disgusted by so many commenters here defending child abuse. On a fucking feminist website. I’m so done with humanity.

Thank you, I’ve been trying to remember where I read that meta-analysis.

“open hand spanking” = hitting

I love how instead of enshrining the eminently sensible, even-kids-understand it idea of “don’t hit people” in law, we instead have lawmakers debating and deciding exactly how and how much we can hit our very young children. I seriously just adore the idea of grown men and women arguing the granular differences…

As someone who was both beaten, kicked, punched to a pulp and “spanked”: it didn’t make ANY FUCKING difference. They were all damaging and assaults on my personhood and value and degrading as FUCK. FUCK YOU for insisting that this is okay with children. Would you non-sexually spank a grown woman?!

Isn’t that the point of having children though? To take out your vindictive rage on the helpless? Read your bible.

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.

Maybe he’s shy and the liquor helps him calm down?