And not just vote for the president and be done with. That’s the biggest mistake.

The “sashayed past the board in stiletto heels” bit is what stands out most to me. That reporter was watching her every move with the mindset of a porn viewer, and it shows. Why is it so hard to treat adult performers like they are actual, adult people?

What an asshole. Clothes! Imagine! Oh yeah I forgot, sex workers are all brainless bimbos who exist in fantasy mode 24/7. They aren't moms or writers or college students or activists or partners or friends. Just a collection of holes, tarted up for your amusement. Fuck this guy.

what if...I was realized that and I was talking to other commenters to facilitate discussion in what is always an echo chamber anyway? And what if I said outright I wasn’t referring to Stassa or criticizing her at all?

Yeah, the whole “vote for a woman bc we need to support women” logic includes such anti-women nutballs as Palin, Bachmann, and Fiorina. No fucking thank you.

Note: During Wendy Davis’ 13 hour filibuster of anti-abortion laws in TX, one of the legislators working the hardest to break it in order to pass the law was…

Answer to the question: however the fuck she wants. The question is insulting (not that I’m pointing fingers at Stassa, just, you know, at the entire culture of this debate).

Good. Discrimination is:

If you believe human life begins at conception, you also believe that women don’t really have rights.

I know, right? I mean, when you guys vote on politicians who impact access to things like reproductive rights, it would be awful if you actually had any context.

Yeah because men have nothing to do with pregnancy and abortions and birth control and family planning and...geez I hope you don’t have a wife or girlfriend.

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

So you’re saying you made a well thought out, reasonable decision about your health and your body; the people responsible for it did not judge or subject you to their personal bias; and your supportive partner was there for you and cared for you before, during and after.

Here’s the thing: I teach at a university and have had transgender students in my classes. If a student is receiving hormone therapy and has for some time, it is very, very likely that that student can “pass” (which is an imperfect term, but you get what I mean) for the gender they’re living as. I would never have…

Trans girls aren't young men. And, if they're going through any hormonal changes, it's probably the same ones your daughter would be going through, because we have modern medicine now that does such things. So, how about you either take a chill pill, or have the decency to own your transphobia. Don't hide behind your…

The term, biological sex, as used in this Act, means the physical condition of being male or female as determined by a person’s chromosomes and anatomy as identified at birth.

The worst thing about meeting different kinds of people is that you start to think of them as, in fact, people.

Do you not see the fundamental difference between Obama disapproving of a specific nominee, vs. McConnell rushing out to reject any nominee at all before the last guy’s body is even cold?

There’s a reason why basically the entirety of actual libertarians are overeducated straight white males - they’re people who have never had any actual significant problems in their lives and thus don’t comprehend the role of government in helping to fix anyone else’s.

God, yes. When the giant douche is talking about shit like, for example, overturning Roe v. Wade and banning gay marriage, I get really fucking sick of hearing about how the candidates are “exactly the same.” In a surprise to no one, only straight, white dudes have ever parroted that line to me. Now, I’ve got nothing…