One of the first things to do would be to try to return to community policing. When police see people only as criminals and people in the community view police as the enemy, nothing is going to improve.

I’m going with more aware. Police brutality is not new it’s just that thanks to camera phones, the internet, and the 24 hour news cycle we hear more about cases that otherwise would have just disappeared. I do think that the war on drugs/war on crime mentality and the discontinuation of community policing has lead to…

I thought that, too but I guess maybe it’s a roundabout way of talking about being a millennial and having older co-workers make assumptions about you. At least I think that’s it. In terms of actual oversharing, I’ve worked with a couple of people who didn’t know when to stop talking about their personal lives and…

I was just getting ready to post this but I’m sleepy and discombobulated. That whole mindset is so disconnected from reality that it constitutes magical thinking.

It’s more of the whole Mommy Wars thing. SAHM, working mom, somewhere in between - it doesn’t matter, you’re still doing in wrong according to somebody.

I love cats with jobs!

I just learned about pistol squats a few weeks ago and I keep trying them out. I can’t do them with one leg fully off the ground but I can do about 5 on each side without tipping over. I’ve accepted that I’m never going to do a handstand push up because doing so would mean nearly smothering myself with my own breasts.

I’m currently 302lbs down from 320lbs thanks to starting a body weight exercise regimen supplemented with some cardio (and a change in eating habits of course). The best thing about body weight exercises is that you can do them pretty much anywhere and you can modify the exercises as needed. When I started out, I…

Nothing pisses me off more than the anti-choicers that pull the abortion=genocide for black people argument. As if those same people waving posters of fetuses and handing out those plastic babies aren’t usually the same people who are opposed to assistance programs because ‘those people’ are just going to sit around…

I think the fight over abortion has always had a classist element to it. The women most effected by laws banning or making abortions difficult to obtain are frequently poor, working class, or lower middle class - the women least likely to have the resources to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term let alone raise a kid…

That’s kind of what I pictured. That or she has a belly and boobs that hike up the front of clothes so that she needs to wear something longer to avoid flashing everybody.

Sadly it’s not all spanking and British documentary marathons

Weirdly enough I just went to a spanking for wellness workshop. My biggest issue with these movies is the idea that all women need to be disciplined into being compliant, that women who don’t act in appropriately prescribed ways need some type of humiliation or punishment because they’re being bad little girls. It’s…

Except that it doesn’t discourage it. It creates a loophole that these people use to commit fraud in the very real sense. These are people who are, for all intents and purposes, a household unit consisting of husband, multiple wives (though only one is recognized) and multiple children. All income including benefits…

I think that some polygamous families will still try to claim benefits no matter what because it’s seems to be something that is built into some of the belief systems - bleeding the beast. But getting rid of the ban may help to ferret out some of the abuse and make it easier to file fraud charges. I do know that…

I totally get that but part of the reason they’re able to commit fraud is because wives 2,3,4 etc...can apply for benefits as single spouses because they can’t legally be married to their husband. They aren’t technically lying when they say they’re single because, in the eyes of the law, they are. I have issues with a…

Right now I would happily take a prescribed rest minus the bedpan and assorted flora. I’m getting close to burn out and I know if I don’t take a few days to do absolutely nothing I’m going to punch someone or, worse, tell them what I’m actually thinking. I’m lucky enough to have a job where I can just take off a…

You’re welcome. I’m not surprised people has such negative responses to your initial comment. Women seem to be more likely to be victims of voyeurs like this and I think some people are quick to dismiss it as no big deal because no one was physically harmed. That misses the whole point of consent and invasion of…

My first reaction was that this is creepy as fuck. There’s no way to dress up or excuse Foos’ behavior. It wasn’t scientific at all. He was a voyeur who spied on unknowing, probably unwilling people. He was a predator that was able to set up his very own way to have steady access to a stream of subjects without having…

You’re free to have a differing and layered view. You’re also free to deal with the criticism of that view and to defend that view if you can.