Let’s play “spot the Patriots fan”

I’m in my 50s. I have so many stories of how women had to go through hell to get an abortion or birth control and what happened when they couldn’t get one or both.

I was 17 and my parents paid for it and my father went with me.

Not to be this guy, but: Sanders voted against the actual Hyde Amendment to begin with, so there’s that. Sanders has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice because of his voting record and stance on choice issues, so I think it’s fascinating that anyone could try to argue that he hasn’t made women’s issues a big enough…

The first thing I saw was the Star Fleet logo.

Holy fuck. Thanks for this. I hate that commercial. I don’t hate Wilson or the Seahawks, but good God, that’s an abomination.

To be fair, I know how it looks. I only know a little about the book’s background because I’m a librarian and there’s been a *lot* of talk about this book on librarian forums already.

The fact that Hercules and Delia are cheesing is the least of it.

I am a children’s librarian and I am just flummoxed by this book and how it came to be. Vanessa Brantley-Newton is a talented Black children’s illustrator, and she illustrates books that positively represent people of color. I’m not too familiar with Ramin Ganeshram although we do have a few of her books in our…

Sometimes I think people forget that just because the beauty of our humanity means one can find a way mentally to escape misery by any means necessary, is not the same as us needing to celebrate the very thing that made the misery and the escapism, a reality.

I also write about food and culture and have written a children’s book. While it’s not uncommon for people to try new genres and styles that might be out of their depth (I do not consider myself a kid’s author), Scholastic and the editor should have known better. I appreciate the author’s attempt, and I don’t think…

It’s a shame, I guess “The Little Injun That Could” set during the Trail of Tears just won’t work in this pc climate.

And “The little digger” as you all remember followed a cute plucky little boy who dug graves for mouthy slaves! It was all very fun. But things have gotten soooo PC. I fear my little tale of a girl who loved to serve her masters and hated choices will be received poorly. Plus as they say in the musical Urinetown, the…

Precisely because she writes about culture, as well as because she’s a woman of color, I’m a bit surprised at the tone deafness. The book sounds like such a bad idea. I wonder how she pitched it to the publisher.

Maybe we could raise the standards if hollywood didn’t fail this rudimentary test the vast majority of the time.

What you're missing here is that most of the time, women are raped by men they trust. I was raped by a friend I'd had for years. I would have left my valuables out in front of him (and I did), and I didn't think anything would happen when I climbed into bed with him, fully clothed and intending to stay that way. He…

OHHH so sorry! My mistake. I didn't realize a woman and her "sexual integrity" were two different things! Give it up.

//But that doesn't mean we can't advise women to not get into dangerous situations.//

Oh god, I'm soooo sick of the "replace rape with theft" argument. Rape and theft aren't analogous at all. "Leaving a bicycle out without a chain and lock" is NOT the same as "a woman jumping naked with a man into bed." By equating a woman — a PERSON — with a bike, you're saying she's an object that needs to be…

I, too, think that living in fear is the best way to avoid my bodily autonomy being violated.