I’d need to hear more of that story because I volunteered at the first domestic violence shelter in Dallas in the 1970s and I think we were all pretty damn aware of who needed protecting and who from.

It’s called “intersectionality.” People already know this. There are books written about it. There are PhD theses on it. Join the conversation, you are welcome!

All white males enjoy the privileges that come with being white and male, no matter how badly their lives may suck and no matter how they may have been victimized. If you can’t see that, you need to do more looking and listening.

YES THANK YOU. So many white men just starting into this conversation are like “well not all white men are rich and happy so therefore men are oppressed too.” No, that’s not the point. The point is—you may have disadvantages, but they aren’t based on your whiteness or maleness. You may be oppressed based on your…

In 1972, when I graduated from high school, law and medical schools had quotas for the maximum number of women they would admit. The most liberal medical school in the country was 20%; 5% was not unusual.

That cake comment is the best part of my morning so far.

It’s really easy to manipulate children. They’re children. Abusers know all about this.

Turns out it’s really easy to manipulate children so that they don’t tell people what’s happening to them. People look at this through an adult non-traumatized lens, not through the lens of a terrified child who doesn’t even have words for what’s been done to her.

“It must be so strange to have a child and realize how wrong some of the shit that was happening to you really was.” Yep, it is.

“whether teenagers need ready access to reversible, long-acting contraceptives”

When my kids were little we celebrated Christmas, Easter bunny day, and Halloween. I explained at an age-appropriate level how earlier pagan traditions get adopted into new religions as they come along. It helped that we lived in New Mexico where the same thing happened to Native American religions when the Catholics…

BOOKS ARE DANGEROUS

But it’s not paid out of income taxes. Apples and oranges.

Succint and, I think, probably mostly correct, although I doubt most of them really, if they were up against it, are all that supportive of minorities either.

Or you’re kinda Old maybe.

Wait, what? All people with straight hair think what? Dammit, I missed the memo AGAIN.

Wow, thanks for telling your story. Those places weren’t even a thing when I was your age and I had no idea they were that bad.

I had an abortion in my 20s and this “why not have the baby and give it up for adoption” thing makes me nuts. I knew damn well that if I carried that baby I would never be able to give her away to strangers—so she would have grown up in poverty (I was a student getting by on financial aid and work-study, would have…

I know. Saw the headline and was like, yawn, more of this BS.

I found this to be the case for me too.