god fucking damn it, the pull-out method. As a public health worker, I just have to cringe.

Here’s a link to Dr. Hern’s clinic for anyone interested in offering support directly to the people who work there, and here’s the National Network of Abortion Funds. The George Tiller Memorial Fund specifically goes to late abortions.

fuck off

Modern Art = I could do that...but I don’t know Charles Saatchi.

That is a bullshit thinly veiled excuse for sexism.

I lucked out - my wife and I don’t want kids and she is a published scientist, so keeping her last name was the obvious choice. If you’re comfortable enough to occasionally be called “Mr. (your wife’s last name)“ then I recommend this approach highly. She even asked if I wanted her to take my name, which... just no.…

I have no plans of ever changing my last name (why would I? the whole concept is so weird to me) and people love to bring up the “well you wouldn’t have the same last name as your kids” thing. 1. I don’t want kids, but thanks for the assumption, 2. who the fuck cares? and 3. why the hell wouldn’t they? I would be the…

I teach special education and have only worked in alternative or placements for students with extreme behavioral/emotional needs so parts of this essay resonated me with me. My students nearly all have uniformly bad/unsafe home lives. Talking to DHS or child protective services is pretty common. As is doing my best to…

NO.

Women have historically been treated like objects. Like property. That has nothing to do with prostitution. In fact, historically wives were not expected or wanted to have a sexuality. That is for other women.

I’ve never heard that. I have heard anti-sex work feminists say that it furthers the objectification of women, and encourages men to think of women as something they can buy. There’s a couple of responses below like that.

I feel the same way, which is why I’m conflicted. Maybe the jezzies can help me out to reconcile my feelings about this. I know I’m going to get yelled at for this and I am open to hearing arguments for/against, but I don’t agree with prostitution, stripping, camgirls, etc. because it feeds into the idea that women…

She is just a Republican male on the inside.

First, she censored it to about the level of a sexy ad. Do you also feel attacked every time you see a Calvin Klein billboard?

Man. I am so tired of people blaming everything else, beside bad fucking parenting, on fucked up kids.

The problem is the different standards for male celebrity role models vs. female celebrities. For the guys, being considered a bad or good role model is about how they treat other people and their accomplishments/talents. For the women, whether or not they're considered good or bad role models is mostly about the sex…

I’m not sure that makes their response any more legit.

I feel the same way. I’m amazed at how the level of vitriol aimed at this woman comes from both sides of the spectrum, with both sides basically reverting back to this archaic argument about how they believe one should act or dress. From “she’s a mother” to the people that claim she’s not a “whore, but an attention…

Funny that white men can find some common ground with other white men who just happened to be attracted to white men, but women still aren’t people.

I think my favorite part of all this Manning drama is that the networks are afraid to report on it much since they all want to hire him as a broadcaster.