I’ve seen something similar in action and it is terrible. About 10 years ago I worked for a Medicaid waiver program that helped seniors stay in their homes. At one point, Medicaid regulations changed so that the value of the person’s home was included in their assets. I had several clients lose their eligibility…

He may already be wrestling boys outside of the local HS wrestling system. Lots of athletes at his level train and compete in other settings. I can’t speak to the specifics of the university level but considering that there are areas where mixed gender wrestling is fairly common, it may not matter as long as he can…

Why should he? This is something that he is good at and something that may possibly help him get into college. Why should he bow out because idiot adults refuse to allow him to wrestle boys? Maybe that’s not showing good sportsmanship behavior but why should he sacrifice his goals?

Which is why he should be competing against boys which is what he wanted to do. But transphobic people would rather put him in a position where his options are 1) don’t wrestle or 2) wrestle girls despite the fact that therapeutic process he is undergoing gives him an advantage. It’s not fair to him and, honestly,…

Definitely not new, unfortunately. People have been dying due to religious fuckery for a very long time and pretty much every part of the world.

My weakness is clothes. I’ve curbed my spending a lot since the beginning of the year but I’m going to crack down on window shopping - get off of mailing lists for catalogs or stores, immediately throw away catalogs, stay away from my usual impulse shopping sites. The one benefit of being plus-sized is that I can’t…

Dressing up is fine but dressing professionally and for the occasion is even better. Ivanka and Melania look more like socialites which is pretty much what they are. They look like they are dressed for a cocktail party, not a political event. In this setting, it looks a bit out of place. I don’t think it’s…

And they’re the first people to deny that white privilege is even a thing.

Of course she wouldn’t walk up to an actual black person on her own and say racist bullshit. She’s too chicken shit to do that. People like her only do shit like that when they’re part of a group. Then they can say ‘it wasn’t me! It was everyone else around me.’ Or ‘I was just caught up with the crowd’. They’re…

First thing I thought. She’s doing the coy, cutesy thing. Flutter your lashes, ‘accidentally’ show some leg and sit in a way that emphasizes how totally harmless and non-threatening you are while managing to subtly twisting the surrounding men to your will. At least that’s what I imagine her thinking. In reality she…

I think that this is what makes some white people so uncomfortable and angry with the movie. It’s a reality that they either honestly don’t understand or like to pretend does not exist. It’s showing that racism is more than just Neo Nazis and the KKK. The racism here isn’t bombastic or cartoonish. The story isn’t an…

I’m so sick of this. It seems that way because you refuse to look any deeper than that and only look for the views that support your already very narrow view of what feminism is and isn’t. And yet you still benefit from the core feminist value that your gender does not limit your role in society. You still take…

Right. I can’t be a racist. I would never burn a cross or lynch somebody. But those people need to learn how to act. What do they expect when they dress/act like that?

People are capable of amazing mental gymnastics when it comes to protecting people they care about. I doubt she would care one way or the other men falsely accused of rape if she wasn’t caught up in proclaiming the innocence of her man.

I’m sure I’d be pissed off is kids decided to short cut their way across my yard all of the time even after I’d told them not to. Kids are frequently disrespectful little fuckers. However getting into a physical confrontation and firing a gun is over the top, dangerous and irresponsible. Is protecting your property…

Waiting lists only work if people are willing to wait especially if the wait is going to be more than a couple of months. If this had been a larger or more well known company, customers might have been more willing to wait. People do get on waiting lists for designer bags and high end cosmetics. But this was a small…

It sounds like they were having some problems even before this. They may not have the money or resources to get more product out there. Even if they had been able to build up the inventory, with some trends people want their items right now, not 6 months to a year later when fashion has moved on. There would have been…

It’s so bizarre. I’ve known women who became penpals with guys in jail for the purpose of eventually marrying them. A couple were very much into the idea of ‘saving’ someone but I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea of purposely chasing after someone that you know has committed heinous acts.

Unfortunately people don’t like things to be that simple. For me feminism is about having the freedom to choose who you want to be rather than being forced into a particular box because of your gender, race, religion or sexual identity. It’s about equality.

Not only did he relish it, he has a fanbase that laps it up. He’s never had to face really significant repercussions for his behavior.