Pro tip: there’s no such thing as an electable candidate who doesn’t lie. They only become electable because they play the game, and the game is dirty by definition.

It’s called Realpolitik for a reason: it’s how the world works. You vote for the lesser of 2 evils and hope they don’t fuck up too badly. Sure, you could go with your conscience and vote for an unelectable Green party candidate or something but that’s essentially a vote for the Republicans.

I agree. I think there’s a lot of snark and hate directed toward her just because some people here don’t like her politics. Hers is a perfectly valid opinion. I could get the snark if she’d said “we don’t need a black woman on the 20$ bill” because that would be fucked up but saying she would have picked Rosa Parks…

Thoughtful piece. But you forgot to mention the counterproductiveness of the obnoxious and self-righteous people shaming women for using nail salons and essentially saying that anyone who didn’t swear off manicures is a horrible person. They're also guilty of making it all about themselves - specifically trying to…

And you’d be ok with a woman being fired from her job for cheating on her husband?

Who cares though? Two consenting adults had sex. Big fucking deal. It’s none of their employers’ or co-workers’ business. That’s a dumb reason to fire anyone. I was totally on board with Shonda firing Isaiah Washington for being a homophobic ass and Heigl for being an unprofessional jerk but firing Dempsey for…

I get that. Sort of. The thing is, I don’t expect to like the writers I enjoy as people. It’s irrelevant to me. All I care about are the books and whether or not I enjoy them and if they’re talented writers. Franzen is an obnoxious douche but he’s an obnoxious douche who happens to write some pretty excellent books,…

Yes.

I don’t know where you work or what your field is but token women on panels are definitely a “thing”. I’ve been involved in organising panels and meetings in different international organisations and yes, very often they’ll put together a group of leaders in different areas that the meeting wants to highlight ant then…

It’s almost perfect. She needs to ditch the shiny hairband and the hair donut’s not quite right and it’s just too much with the earrings. But other than that it’s perfection, as is she. The dress! The lipstick!

Again with that question. Why is it important or even relevant? No, I don’t find it immoral. I do find it dumb to assume all rich people do this because it’s dumb to assume all people in any given tax bracket act the same. I don’t assume someone will act a certain way because they’re poor either.

Don’t you mean, it’s incorrect according to you and your obviously ideological and biased views? Being sympathetic to a cause doesn’t mean that employing reductive and simplistic rhetoric is suddenly ok. The world isn't black and white (no pun intended) and extreme statements are never reflective of the truth nor do…

1. I never said she was racist. I said blanket statements about entire segments of the population are dumb and incorrect and as an academic, she should know better.

Like I said, not about feelings, I’m not a young white guy so it’s not about that. As a centre-leftie who’s uninterested in both extremes of the political spectrum, I see that kind of blanket statement and all I see is the radical left wing equivalent of a Fox News soundbite and just like the Fox News soundbite, I…

I can think of lots of ways of addressing those issues without resorting to dumb blanket statements like referring to white college age males as a “problem population.” She didn’t say, they’re abusing their privileges. I mean, do you really not see the issue with referring to any group as a “problem population”?…

Prison rape is an epidemic and authorities pretty much do nothing. If you have the stomach for it, I recommend the documentary “Turned out”. The whole thing is on youtube and it is excellent.

Yup. It’s not as simple as saying, oh, just take the straight sized clothes and make them bigger instead of having a whole separate plus size line. It might work with shift dresses and shapeless clothes but anything with a little more tailoring will have to be made with different proportions. That’s not to say that…

Of course systemic racism is different. My point is merely that generalisations and stereotyping about any segment of the population are equally false, regardless of who they’re about. And of course I realise that the racism black people suffer is in no way comparable to the effects that an untrue generalisation about…

I wish my body adapted to getting up early for work but it’s still a goddamn struggle every weekday morning until it’s finally the weekend and my body can revert back to its natural cycle which is to stay up as late as possible and wake up at 10:30-11. Doesn’t matter that my whole life I’ve been making myself go to…

But what if that segment is abusing it’s privileges against less privileged segments? We’re going to put political correctness over truth in discourse? DO you also find it immoral to call out the rich for abusing their privileges?