Ohhhhhhh, complicated. Code word for “Still looking.”

I think there are people whose beliefs are consistently pro-life. The first example that comes to mind is social-justice-oriented Catholicism - where they fight for things like worker’s rights, elimination of poverty, serving the homeless, etc. Were those the dominant themes of mainstream social conservatism, I would…

Let’s not make this into the scary olympics.

Christ, the vast majority of everything on Gawker media is clickbait, and you’re complaining about someone who actually put time, effort, thought, and background knowledge into their piece.

I agree with you on a logical level, at least this guy is consistent and truly seems to believe his morals. There is something to be said for sticking to your guns and fighting for something you truly believe in.
But I think all anti-choicers are gross, so my emotional reaction to this is very different than my logical…

I actually respect people like this guy a lot more than people who try to restrict abortion with exceptions for rape and incest. If you actually think abortion is murder, why allow any exceptions? The anti-abortion rights people who support rape and incest exceptions either (a) recognize there’s a difference between…

I’d argue the “sane” Christians are Roman Catholics. Yes, they still lag behind in women’s issues, gay rights and contraception, but compared to American Protestants they are downright enlightened and progressive.

Addendum: I’m pretty sure during a discussion about the several children he has with a couple different women he said, “I have the gang swimming in me right now.”

It kills me that his ideas are seen as “fringe”. I don’t know when left became “right light”.

I can’t cook either, so when I’m pressured to, I always fall back on one of two dishes: spam and egg sandwiches or BLTs. Minimal cooking, maximum taste.

At least she wasn’t wearing a grill?

I agree with you, but I also think that what parents value has a huge influence on their kids. I grew up hearing my father chiming in on the weight and appearance of every woman he talked about - his coworkers, my friends’ moms, his cousins. From a young age it convinced me that my worth was contingent on my physical…

There are very, very good reasons we don’t let victims decide the punishment of their victimizers. And, for the record even though you weren’t talking to me, I had a friend that was murdered and I am very glad her murderer didn’t get the death penalty.

You can think both of those things are terrible and gross simultaneously, oddly enough.

IF YOUR MORALS AND ETHICS ARE CONTINGENT ON THE PEOPLE YOU ARE INTERACTING WITH, YOU HAVE NEITHER MORALS OR ETHICS.

Amusing story from the museum world: a curator I knew kept an Egyptian mummy’s head in a box in his office. He got it after refurbishing the museum’s Egypt exhibit, where it had been displayed on its own. He said that it was obviously some sort of plundered relic that someone had dedicated to the museum long ago,…

I was gonna say the same thing about the narrator/implied author. Like if this piece was written more in the tone of, say, a “lifestyle blogger” named Amberly Faithlove who enjoys artisinal gummy vitamins and alpaca facial tissues, I think it could have been funny. But it either doesn’t go far enough and exaggerate…

My Dad had to buy a couple blazers recently because he works in local government up north of Seattle, and has to ‘look professional’ at meetings and stuff.