I don’t feel sympathy for him, but I do think the wrong question to ask is ‘How should we punish him?’ The right question is ‘How can we stop this from happening in the future, and how can we minimize the damage already caused?’ Because punishment is at best a sterile goal, and most often a harmful one.

I understand what you’re saying. How much easier it is to just demonize people who do horrible things. My heart breaks for the children involved, one is dead and the others irretrievably scared. The perpetrator has obvious issues, NONE of which excuse his behavior. However, viewing him as a human being, who’s been on…

In re: The Mormons.

Oh okay see, I was actually really annoyed by his comment but can tell from your tone that I’m being an over-sensitive harpy bitch who is mos def. not cool like our Lord and Savior Bernie Sanders.

This isn’t nothing and it’s frustrating to have such a dismissive response about it from a blog that’s ostensibly feminist.

Look, I’m just going to say this: if Hillary could control Bill, I think the history of our mid- to late-’90s would be very different.

For true accuracy, they should have had someone sneak up on the guys unexpectedly a few times a day to pummel them in the stomach.

Sounds like these guys had the experience of what it’s like to be 12 and not know how to deal with having a period. For real world adulting period having, I’d like for them to suddenly be so tired one day all they want is to nap. Then 2 days later feel like they have to eat every item of food they can find. Then the…

Let’s say, in theory, Bill Clinton secretly, in his heart, did not want Hillary to become President.

Would he be doing differently on the campaign trail?

I do love a millennial who thinks 40 years olds are so old we don’t know what the internet is or how to use it. (do they not teach the history of the technology in school?)

They don’t understand that. They define it differently. To them, feminism or racial equality is defined as, “Oh shit, the _____ are going to treat us as badly as we’ve treated them all these years? EVERYBODY PANIC!”

So you expect all down ticket candidates for the US House and Senate, for state and local races, to magically raise money like Bernie or lose to the republicans? How? Do Bernie unicorns fart money? Unless and until the campaign finance system is totally overhauled, you are basically demanding that all democratic…

You keep on citing the Florida senate race on the idea that the DNC is funding a republican to block a progressive. Their funding Patrick Murphy, who was a Republican in 2011, but has been a successful Democratic congressman since 2012. He’s a little centrist for my tastes, sure I don’t begrudge him the party change-…

Hillary supports the Party, and the Party supports her? That’s not exactly scandalous, unless you think the cashier at Target is in the wrong for passing customers’ money to the company and then being paid in return.

Yup, and least we forget the ability of either Clinton or Sanders to advance their agenda hinges on enough down-ballot victories to flip the Senate (which is going to be difficult but not unimaginable) and making serious gains in the House. I know this doesn’t mean shit to Sanders and a good chunk of his supporters…

I read an interesting political science study recently that one of the reasons the US may have better than average female participation in elected office (and let’s all pause to feel some sads that our piss poor 20% congressional seats is better than average) may be precisely because we have large female focused super…

It should be noted that the fundraiser is for the Hillary Victory Fund, which does help Hillary’s campaign, but also donates to down-ticket races. This sort of funding is usually vital for smaller Democratic campaigns, who cannot acquire enough funding on their own to be competitive.

Dude, I’m fucking done with Sanders. I gave him a ton of money and I wish I could ask for it back. This fundraiser was done specifically to raise money for downballot candidates—the kind of congresspeople Sanders would actually need to fuel his imaginary revolution.

Alvin Ailey has been dead since 1989, which is still no excuse for someone writing about contemporizing ballet not to know who he is and what he accomplished, but Mark Morris is alive and well and his troupe still performs regularly at their studio in Brooklyn...25 years after his adaptation of “classic” ballet The…

Oh fuck off.