Oh man, I can definitely imagine myself feeling mortified (on either side) of that situation! Totally understandable reaction, though. My partner knows that if he approaches me from behind and touches me at all, he runs the risk of getting a sharp elbow to the gut. In moments of great stress, I have recently…

If I may add to that - in Texas, registering as an organ donor also registers you for tissue and eye donation, but every state is a little different! I would suggest also looking into how you can register for tissue and eye donation. Corneal donation can restore sight to people with degenerative eye diseases and…

Ha thanks! I worked in churches and took the Bible very seriously when I was a Christian. I don’t have the most patience with people who clearly either have never read the book they use to condemn everyone around them or choose to blatantly disregard the thousands of verses calling for collective justice and mercy…

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in...once…

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Your arguments seem to assume that we’re all on the same page about what an “echo chamber” is, and we’re not.

I went to a public school that offered a Bible as Literature course (that I took) too! I am also incredibly baffled when people think only practicing Christians have any idea what’s in the Bible. I’m also baffled by how so many interpret the Bible from such a legalistic, hateful position, and how it escapes them that…

I’m a former Christian/church worker and attended a Lutheran (LCMS) parochial school as a kid. I think of Matthew 23 constantly whenever the GOP tries to pull shit like this - I still find the imagery and the language of it beautifully apt.

Much has been said already about the need for drastic changes in police training, but Donald Grady II, a police chief interviewed by The Atlantic, brings up good points about recruitment:

Initial thoughts that probably no one will read since I’m in the greys and this post has many comments already but:

I’m a woman and drove briefly for Uber. I once picked up a group of drunk frat boys and ex-Marines who spent our half-hour ride from downtown into the suburbs hitting on me - they made jokes about “popping my cherry” since it was my first night with Uber, “making the ride easy” for me, telling me that I was beautiful,…

I thought Ice Cube did a really great job in trying to hold Maher accountable, by making him answer why exactly he thought he was allowed to say what he did. I’m a non-Black POC, and tend to think it’s more helpful to label acts, words, attitudes, and systems as racist, rather than individuals - debating whether a…

Dress codes are bullshit. Our high school’s dress code became increasingly restrictive each year when I attended, with dramatic changes that eliminated half our wardrobes every time. During my senior year, we couldn’t wear shorts, sleeveless shirts, logos on shirts could be no bigger than 3x3 inches, you had to wear a…

I can’t even begin to imagine the immense amount of shame and survivor’s guilt I’d be feeling in their circumstances. I hope they’re not. But to think of the fear and powerlessness caused by that man targeting them; knowing that you are that hated by anyone at all and that there are more out there; to witness the…

Totally agree. I used to talk with teens and young adults about healthy relationship education at an old job, and one of the most common conversations I had with them was how a single person cannot be responsible for fulfilling every one of your needs; it’s unfair to them and sets you up for disappointment, because…

Definitely not me! I rarely went to parties with booze as a kid and when I did, I was the one slapping drinks out of my friends’ hands if they hadn’t actually watched a dude make it. So, thousands of super privileged kids getting shitty together would have been my adloescent nightmare.

Ha those too! I was thinking that last line could have been lifted straight from aspirational party movies like this godawful one I somehow ended up watching with friends once:

They’re the worrrrst. They have no idea how virtually anything works. Easy to say “let’s just do this!” if you’re only responsible for promoting the thing, not making it actually happen.

Right! Like, I just wrapped up a one-day 100-person event for my job, which took place at an indoor venue that does in-house set-up and catering. I started planning this event, which is a fraction of any festival’s scope and mostly very easy, 6 months ago. I was dying at the organizer saying they’d start planning for…

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