You’d be surprised by how close this is to how things actually work. I take it you don’t work with government budgets. Here’s how things really work:

Um, I do. I’m a single mom and $38K is more than I make most years. If the taxpayers want to throw money away, they can at least throw a couple days’ worth in my direction, where I’m doing some actual work in raising a decent, well-educated human being. You know, doing that work Bernie says he cares so damn much…

No, but you can sure as hell lower the odds.

Just had the tour with my daughter. It’s fantastic, but I will say there’s something a little weirdly culty about it. Maybe it’s just the rah-school thing you get on any tour, I don’t know. Other than that it looks like a dream.

Look, I’m saying this as patiently as I can.

And I guarantee that Lee Kaplan isn’t from that area originally, and I’d be very, very surprised if this is the first girl he’s assaulted.

Really, just shut the fuck up unless you’re already in the middle of making actual social change happen. Supporting and helping to write legislation. Running or working with a men’s anti-violence group. Routinely calling out other guys, in public, for harassing women. Helping women move away from abusive spouses.…

Schurette, when my child was a baby she was exposed to measles. An older kid who hadn’t been vaccinated. That was over a decade ago, and I still haven’t forgotten the fear of those days.

Yeah, this is true when there’s a spectacular. When it’s just some chick trying to keep a few kids housed and together as a family, not so much. Try getting near the cracks for falling through, sometime, and you’ll find out what unicorns those helpers really are.

Tl;dr. Because I’m more than halfway through my statistical lifespan, have never touched a gun, have no need of one. And I don’t believe you need one either. I have been raped, I’ve been attacked in a parking lot, I’ve had my house broken into twice while at home. I’ve lived in terrible neighborhoods alone. And in…

More substantively: when you say “white people shouldn’t get to” etc. — and this would be enforced how? The problem, at bottom, isn’t political but aesthetic. People adore shit. Absolutely love it. The Phantom of the Opera is *still running*. Figurines. Ice dancing. America’s Funniest Home Videos. Donald Trump. Polar…

Please, please use a good editor before you publish. You’re writing interesting stuff and then you undermine yourself with missteps like “exhaustedly praised” (you mean “exhaustively”, which still isn’t quite right) and grammatical errors. It does make a difference.

Aaand she turns out to be a varsity football cheerleader. I know everybody’s shocked.

Dear Leslie,

Bernie sure as hell is one of them - ask the women’s groups who tried to work with him while he was in Burlington. In his mind, push comes to shove, the people who make things go are men, and if a woman manages to survive in there she’s an interesting curiosity, nothing more. I have a lifetime of Uncle Bernies behind…

Yep. Still all done with men. Want nothing to do with any more of them. I don’t care how many of them complain about #notallmen. If they want more trust, they’ll have to do something about male culture.

It seems to me that Bernie’s doing exactly what I’ve seen aging guy after aging guy do: kindly and chivalrous old gent until it’s plain that a woman, and not even a hot woman, is going to wipe the floor with him because she’s just terrifically good at what she does, and then he freaks out, and then he copes by…

I’m Jewish, and I think this is a ridiculous comparison.

If only study after study confirmed what you say instead of confirming gender bias in hiring/promotion/salary-setting against women, particularly mothers and older women. Unfortunately, it’s very much about sex.

Dude, kids are almost never kidnapped. And your little girl is on the verge of not being so little anymore. It’s just about time. She can handle it, she’ll be fine, and the women in the ladies’ will help her out if she has trouble.