This makes me think that the justices don’t understand how insurance works. Full stop. You don’t buy insurance for specific medicines and condition. There is no “diabetes insurance” that you specifically buy on the marketplace when you need insulin. You buy comprehensive insurance and the company is gambling that more…

Do you know what would be awesome? If we completely divorced health care from the employer/employee relationship. We could have some sort of, I don’t know, single payer system or something.

And you can guarantee they’ll now require all doctors to have admitting privileges (if it’s not already a law), because of the danger of anesthesia.

because knocking people unconscious for no reason is dangerous

Quick reminder that most of the abortions performed after 20 weeks aren’t for women who changed their mind about having a child - it’s more often for women whose pregnancy is life-threatening or the fetus has severe abnormalities.

Not only is the whole “but things need to get REALLY BAD first to usher in real change” argument irresponsible and basically a tacit middle finger to the people for whom it will get really bad, but it’s not even a valid argument.

I was going to say exactly that. She can say this since she is rich, white, post-child bearing age, and insulated in the privilege of Hollywood. The upheaval and chaos of this REVOLUTION that she speaks of won’t even touch her. Clinton will continue the status quo. Bernie will attempt to reform the status quo.…

Nobody’s “forcing” you or anyone to do anything.

So blame people like me if Trump wins over Hillary, we’ll be here grinning.

Trump’s presidency would be 4-8 years. Trump’s legacy could be much longer, especially if he appoints pro-life judges to SCOTUS and other courts. I care about reproductive rights way too much to allow a pro-life president to get through in the name of a perceived potential for political revolution.

Jesus christ, I hate these people.

I don’t know what's wrong with me, but for some reason I read the thread. And started off thinking it had to be fake, and then kept reading and thought well maybe they're just really unable to handle things appropriately and sort of just felt sorry for them. And then I read the more recent comments, two of which are…

Disagree. Yes, it sucks to be ghosted. But that doesn’t mean that the other person has permission to stalk/harass you. If they run into you in the grocery store, can they come up and say what happened? Sure. But there’s no answer to that question that would be satisfying. The answer is that person sucks and they…

Thank. You.

My argument against the “Bernie or no one” crowd is that they obviously do not care about reproductive rights, full stop. SCOTUS appointments are crucial at this juncture.

Exactly. My 2 year old daughter is who I think of every time I hear these assholes claim they’d rather not vote than support a candidate that isn’t 100% their ideal. There are real people being affected by this mess and it’s the height of privilege for someone like Sarandon to be indifferent to all of those folks.…

This is such a wildly privileged opinion. Real people will get hurt under Trump. SCOTUS will be changed. Laws will be passed. The military will be deployed, affecting people around the globe. I get that you want a different political system but this is the one we live in. Don’t throw others under the bus in your quest…

I’m kind of amazed that people agree that there is a historical aspect of a preference for paler skin that has nothing to do with white people, and then crap all over me for not expanding my comments to address White Superiority, plastic surgery, modern media representations, etcetera.

Hey, Bingo. I didn’t write an essay addressing all areas of beauty culture pre- and post-colonialism. GTFO with your “conveniently ignores” stuff. Google “phoenix eyes” and “peach blossom eyes”. People getting eyelid surgeries are not trying to look more like white people, they’re aiming for an Asian ideal of beauty.…

Hey. Nowhere did I say “this has nothing to do with white people and colonization” and it’s not cool of you to suggest I did. What I offered was a historical perspective that is independent of colonization, and in fact, predates European contact. People wanted to look pale before they knew that there were folks that…