It doesn’t need 60 votes. They could allow a filibuster and then move to a vote once the filibuster ended.

They’re choosing to have tied hands.

We cried when Trump was elected and were told he “couldn’t do that much damage.”

I had fibroids nearing the size of a 6-month old child. When I went to the ER because I thought I might have appendicitis (they were just pushing other organs around and pressing against my spine), they ran a battery of STD tests (negative, which I knew), still pressed me on if I had a burning sensation going to the…

Wish you had noted in this article that for decades, doctors refused to believe this was a real disorder and felt women were just being whiny and hysterical about period pain. It’s only very recently that SOME doctors have started to believe women and treat them for it. IT still takes an average of SIX YEARS for women…

I was only finally able to get some help and recognition when I was being treated/tested for something that was (most likely?) completely unrelated. I was so underweight and malnourished that I was nearing the point of having a feeding tube inserted/and/or hospitalization while the doctors continued to try and find…

I’m so grateful that Amy has been so open about all her issues with endo and has documented what she’s gone through with how it’s affected her day to day life, her pregnancy, what she’s gone through to get help. So many people believe that because it’s something that affects “women” (“a women’s issue”), it’s…

I guess my point is you don’t really need a psychologist. You would expect an innocent person who has every reason to believe everybody is going to think he murdered somebody to behave much in the same way a murderer would, for exactly the same reasons as the murderer. They’re both going to be trying their best to…

This is why it makes no sense to have cops deal with dv situations. I know of no incident where the cops were called to deal with people fighting and they made things better. I’m not saying cops as individuals can’t help, but the stakes are so high for the civilians who are involved—jail time, legal fees, potential…

Very sad. I know in some states that the police are required to take someone into custody if they see obvious scratch/ bruise/stab marks on a victim. It’s not really up to the couple…. because of course people will say “Oh never mind, we are ok now” when the police arrive. I only know this because I accidentally…

Sad, predictable end for her and her family. The limits of benevolent sexism and any privilege society may give women is on display here. She looks the right part. She did every thing right and took a male “guardian” with her, she had the right family who cared about. Still she ended up murdered. Beyond getting people…

Personally I’m not sure about that. There are some rich guys that will take the kids just do they don’t have to give you a dime once things go sour. That’s why I wouldn’t mind being the mistress to guy but not nessaralyy have kids with him. There could be a secret love nest where I see him twice a week at best and…

A real act of bravery to do this in a place like Texasistan. 

Well, in this case, they’re talking about something that is treated as a public record for everyone else. You don’t get to probate someone’s Will (at least not in the U.S.) and have that Will not be part of the public record. No privacy at all on that score. The only way to avoid that is to create a Living Trust and…

I’m hoping for secret side children and I hope my great grandkids have a seance or something when its unsealed so I can get the tea. 

If the public has been subsidizing your mass amounts of wealth for centuries, you can’t unilaterally decide that the allocation of that same wealth isn’t in the public interest.

I can’t get to the comments in the grays but just wanted to throw out that women speaking truth to the complexity of these feelings does not mean they are “only” “miserable” or that they are even miserable at all (I never claimed to be). They also don’t need women (especially) riding in to inform them that it’s not…

Men who have those skills are attractive af regardless of how they look physically. Men who brag about having those skills and whine about women who won’t give them a chance are unattractive regardless of appearance and are chasing supermodels themselves 99% of the time.

Even while I get the argument here about it always having been about power to Minaj, and I do think this is an interesting tale of the other side of the coin when it comes to brash personalities like her, I’m still staggered on her inability to just accept the loss here and move on. Like she told an insanely stupid…

Lots of men put on their best selves prior to marriage and then expect to be taken care of afterward (and would never suggest that this was their plan, because I don’t think most of them even think this way about it).

My husband owned a home before we were married and did his own cleaning, cooking for himself etc. My mother was vehemently opposed to my living with him before marriage-not for any religious or social reasons-but because she knew the minute I moved in, I’d take on those responsibilities and she didn’t want me to do…