It’s not like all the previous Doctor Whos are erased. Even if boys somehow can’t pattern their behavior on a female-bodied anything, boys have exactly as many role models as they did before this announcement.

So does this mean they are retroactively replacing all the old episodes with a digitally recreated woman?

/siiiiigh

He probably wishes he could turn back his age to below 21 so that he can smoke a cigarette while everyone else that age has to wait.

Maybe rather than just arbitrarily raising the age you better teach people why not to smoke, offer help to quit, or better yet have a public smoking ban?

HAHAHAHAHAHA! This just strikes a chord with me. We have a large yard and the kid can’t make it to the ice cream truck, like, EVER. She is 12 now and still hasn’t ever caught the damn thing. I don’t know why this cracks me up so much, but it does. Every time my kid hears those tinkling bells, she is hopping around…

I’d be throwing down a spike strip and boarding that bastard with a cutlass and an eyepatch.

Did you read the posters above describing the concept of people coming into a historic neighborhood with long-established, cultural norms, and then trying to change those norms to meet their preferences? Race/gentrification/ social issues have everything to do with it. Colonizers/Columbusers/Gentrifiers frequently…

And here is the part that makes me angriest. Child protective services are so busy with these types of things that actual, real abuses get backlogged. A few years ago I had 7 students that were being “monitored” and I was informed that because CPS is so overwhelmed that my students, who are 8th graders, are low…

I’m a social worker (I don’t work for CPS) and I have a ton of issues with CPS. There have been more times than I can count when I’ve had a kid with visible injuries reporting that they were caused by the parent, and I can’t get CPS to come out an investigate for anything (or if they do, it’s not until a week later,…

The GOP congress will just go “Oh that silly Beauregard forgetting to tell us about another Russian contact. What monkeyshines will he do next?”

“I have trouble with Rand Paul” is a fairly universal sentiment, I think. And this after pairing with Kamala Harris to advocate for criminal justice reform earlier in the week.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul agrees with Donald Trump that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who lied under oath about his ties to Russia, should not have recused himself from the Russia investigatio.

I actually hate the ice cream truck in my town, because it drives down my street full speed, playing the damn song, without stopping. I don’t know where it does stop, but ain’t anywhere near my house. So I’m stuck with Pavlovian desire for ice cream, and I can’t buy it.

If ‘Snuck a peekover the divider’ means ‘held it for Putin like he was told’ I totally agree.

I am guessing sitting on the stoop and enjoying a cold beverage is a no-no in this lady’s book of citizenship.

I never called CPS on my parents, and they were generally pretty good parents with the exception of using physical punishment on occasion, but the first example described in the article, wandering off while my mom wasn’t looking definitely was something I did. I lived in a high rise with grandparents on another floor,…

She suspected child abuse because your daughter knew the correct anatomical names? That is so creepy.

That is 17 levels of fucked up for many reasons, but I can’t get over the fact that using proper names for body parts got you suspected of abuse. I’m a sex educator and one of the reasons we tell parents to teach kids the proper names for their genitals is specifically to help prevent abuse. The theory is that if your…

Great article. My only concern is that people don’t focus on the poverty aspect and not the race aspect.