It’s about increasing your capacity for empathy and for seeing the world from different angles, which is a skill that not only increases your intelligence but will benefit your life in myriad ways. It may also make the world a little bit better. You seem like someone who is busy building little walls around yourself…

I have to believe that you’re smart enough to realize that this statement doesn’t make any sense.

53% of those who voted, not 53% of all. There’s a selection bias here. A whole buncha white ladies went in their to vote for Big Daddy Cheeto because they wanted to fight back against all those elitists who think they’re so great, which is a huge fucking problem, and it’s also a huge problem that half of all women…

I think that’s too simplistic. As I’ve posted elsewhere, I know two people who voted for Trump and both were my asshole brothers-in-law. I tried to argue and fight with them and got nowhere. This is increasingly common as the cultural divide widens. The Times actually recorded conversations between white family…

I hear you and I don’t really disagree with anything you say, except that I do believe that our country has become more of an virtual archipelago, with people (who have the luxury of choice) gravitating to the isolated “islands” where others share their values. So all these white women who say, “I literally do not…

If you have managed to change the mind of any evangelical on gay rights, then I’d love to take a debate class with you because my efforts have been total failures.

53% of white women VOTERS chose Trump. Only about 58% of eligible voters went to the polls, but we don’t actually have final numbers and can’t yet break the down by race and gender. So let’s say 30% of all eligible white women voters voted for Trump. Still sucks. And it sucks that maybe 40% of white women didn’t even…

Ah, I see the REDMAP initiative is really doing its thing at the local level. Well-played, you demon fuckheads.

Look at the voting maps. There really are liberal enclaves where a white person could live a full life without a single Trump voter in her circle. The stat that 53% of all white women voted for Trump is wrong. 53% of white female VOTERS did. So of all the white women in America, that’s about a quarter of them who…

Agree, but I have no sway over the women who voted for Trump. I can fight racism in myself and in my community, I can own my own privilege, I can show up for marches, but I can’t convince an Evangelical anti-choice woman in Pennsylvania that she got in bed with the devil.

I literally don’t know any white women who voted for Trump. I do know 2 white men and they are in my family and they’re horrible and I tried and got nowhere with them. I know 1 white woman who didn’t vote and she’s a military spouse who finds herself in a blue city in a blue state while her husband gets his MBA. I…

You’re arguing different points. I believe the OP was talking about division among feminists. If you’re out there protesting Trump, anti-choice white Evangelical women aren’t “your people.” I have no more power to change their minds than a person of color.

I know 2 people who voted for Trump: my two white brothers-in-law, who live far away and who I dislike equally. I argued with them until I had to leave the table. Nothing gets through. To them, Hillary was the she-devil, worse than anything Trump could do or say. If I were to drive up to some rural town in New…

Brookline has been an independent town since 1705, back when the whole area was either Boston, Cambridge, or Brookline. So this goes back long before elitist parents. Allston and Brighton chose to annex themselves to Boston in the hope of stronger growth after the stockyards and slaughterhouses moved farther away from…

Interesting. I thought a lot of people move to Brookline because it’s surrounded on 3 sides by Boston and makes it easy to get into the city. Why wouldn’t the move farther out of the city if they were so phobic? Can’t speak for the Russian community, which seems pretty large and self-segregated.

Just be sure to stick to that resolution. My single aunt swore for decades that she had great long-term care insurance and when the time came, “just point me to the nursing home.” Well, now she has dementia and is aware of it and terrified. My parents are spending their remaining healthy years helping her with…