I think this is another example of Trump/Trumpists projecting. My pet theory is that Trump sold his soul to a demon long ago, that demon eventually assumed human form (using the missing parts of Donald’s fingers) as a Russian autocrat, and Trump is now in so deep that he’s just doing the demon’s bidding.

NO ONE is saying that universities should be in the business of criminal investigation. All the things they do that you don’t like - those aren’t criminal investigations. Universities don’t have the power to convict or acquit someone of committing a crime. They cannot undertake criminal investigations. Literally no…

It’s a core fundamental right in CRIMINAL proceedings. There’s a different burden of proof in civil cases, and, as others have pointed out, a university can expel you for any number of things it reasonably believes you to have done without needing a conviction. A university can expel you for things that aren’t…

I made the mistake of looking at Fox News this morning, and there’s a piece that says Lester Holt was “in the tank” for Hillary because he (barely) fact checked Trump (and because he let slide her “gaffe”(!!!!) about the existence of implicit bias). Then it goes on to detail all the fact-checking done by other outlets…

It’s enough to incapacitate an otherwise healthy person currently under treatment for pneumonia, which is exactly what I have now said three times and what her campaign has said. Who is saying she DOESN’T have pneumonia? No one. Do you live in New York? I do. I was fucking hot on Sunday morning, and I’m in my…

Those aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m sure if she didn’t have pneumonia, she wouldn’t have overheated. But the fact that while being treated for pneumonia she got too hot and felt faint on a hot and humid day while standing in the sun in a suit doesn’t mean ohmygodshe’sdyingtherepublicanswererightallalong. It means she…

Sunday was notably cooler than Saturday (which I think is what led to all the “it’s not hot!” clamoring), but it wasn’t cool. I was uncomfortably warm on Sunday morning after about 20 minutes of not-vigorous walking and I wasn’t wearing a suit. Also, being just a little off can make reasonable temperatures feel…

There’s a lot of daylight between criticizing religions and culture for upholding patriarchy and forcing women to strip in public.

What feminism also stands for is the idea that a grown woman has just as much a right to dress herself as she sees fit as a grown man. No one is forcing men to show a state-sanctioned amount of skin at the beach, and if men are covering themselves at the beach, no one is prying into their reasons.

Exactly. Besides, if the burkini is banned, does anyone believe that Muslim women are just going to start wearing regular swimsuits instead? They just won’t feel comfortable going to the beach. If you (not you personally, but slantsixer and Manuel Valls) believe that women are being pressured into wearing burkinis by…

Yes, this is the case where the prosecution used a totally discredited “lung float test,” literally out of the 1600s, to argue that the fetus/baby had drawn a breath and thus had been born alive. The appeals court said the infanticide law hadn’t been applied correctly, and also that the state hadn’t proved that…

I have lots of hobbies thanks!

Have you breastfed? Do you have toddler children? Taking out apple slices is absolutely not easier than taking out a breast and sticking it in your child’s mouth. Nor is making sure you always have the right amount of snacks cut up and in whatever bag you’re carrying, and the requisite wipes for cleaning your child…

Yes, we understand that you are very proud you were eating roast chicken at 18 months. Woohoo! So does this toddler, probably. Where does it say the toddler can’t walk? Or that she’s exclusively breastfed? Or that the mother thought it was an emergency? She objected to being interrupted after she’d already started…

Fair enough. For the last 90 years, there have been non-milk-based formulas. They are an important development for babies who can’t digest milk protein. But we are evolved to depend on breast milk at the beginning of life, which was my point - if you care about instinct as the source of aversion to breastfeeding, I…

My shit stinks like you wouldn’t believe. I’m well aware that breast milk is a bodily fluid - I feel if filling up my breasts, and right now I am pumping it out of my body. It’s definitely a fluid.

Also, you know that formula is made from cow’s milk, right? So yes, breast milk, whether from the mother or another mammal, is the food that sustains life for the first 1-2 years. No baby is getting 100% solid food at 6 months. They continue to get a good part of their calories from breast milk, formula, or cow’s milk…

Look, I also think evolutionary psychology is bullshit, but you’re the one who claims that our current, 2016 take on public breastfeeding is not culturally constructed, but rather instinctual, and used an article theorizing about how prehistoric humans dealt with germs to back himself up. Again, neither of the…

What’s the special treatment she’s demanding? To be left alone to go about her business like all the other shoppers? To be able to quiet down her toddler so it doesn’t disturb all the other shoppers? To exercise her rights as protected by the law? I missed the part where she demanded that the store roll out a couch…

Oh, right, because no one ever ate dairy products before we had pasteurization and agricultural regulation! We only domesticated cows in the 20th century. I forgot. And moms and dads are constantly being shamed for feeding pumped breastmilk from bottles. Right. (By the way, that’s the only time you’d actually even see…