Right, and every time it’s used as “common phrasing” people who know how activism works say “the Social Issue Olympics are fucking ridiculous, please do better”.

For all of the downfalls of public school sex ed/health ed, I am eternally grateful for the gym teacher who actively made it her mission to instill in her female students the importance of the right to choose. It was absolutely against code, but she told us stories of friends (she was in her late 50s 8 years ago)…

I’m honestly really overwhelmed that you just attempted to categorize social issues into “real” (and by extension, important) and “not” (and thus less important). For arguments sake if he, a white man, addressed police brutality and racism in his songs, social critics would posting “Stay in Your Lane” articles on…

When I was 9, I fell off a seesaw (I know it sounds ridiculous) and couldn’t move my arm and refused to let anyone touch it. But I repeatedly said that I was fine, that I didn’t need a doctor. My parents finally dragged me to one like 4 days later and we found out that I shattered my humorous (upper arm bone)…

You don’t think that children shouldn’t learn about slavery at all, or just the nuanced complexities of human emotion?

Ahh yes. This licensed medical professional ejaculated on someone’s face while they were under his care and I, someone pointing out the ways in which rape culture negatively affects survivors of assault, am the asshole.

“Don’t worry, I keep it locked away so that children can’t get to it.”

You know, she probably hurt herself on purpose so that she could lure him into ejaculating on her face while she was unconscious and unaware. What a tease.

The term female only refers to the gender of a species capable of carrying of hatching children. As in any species. Menstruation is not a biological function of “females” for more than half of the species that live on this earth. Among humans, men and non-binary persons menstruate all the time. Reducing women to their…

Right, and as an advocate for the rights of trans persons who also wants to end the cognitive social connection between women and “female” reproductive organs because it’s sexist, I’m totally in support of people of colour not identifying as feminists for any number of reasons but not when it’s used as an excuse for…

As a female what? A female human? Because the word for that is “woman” and referring to women exclusively by connecting them to their sex organs is unnecessary and exclusionary.

Gang initiation could absolutely be a possibility. And before anyone jumps down my throat about assuming that young black men might be in a gang, IM NOT. But I went to university in the Bronx and we were frequently told that certain times of the year were initiation periods and that we should within “x” blocks of the…

I’m sorry, have you ever been to New York? In certain parts of Harlem, or Brooklyn, or Queens people openly drink in parks surrounded by persons under 21 all the time. I don’t know what metric you’re using for “regular” dads here, but my “regular” dad (who is a low-key masonry foreman without a cellphone) used to…

It’s really interesting to me that some people in the comments here seem to think that chemists don’t have the training to determine if a particular person may not be a good candidate for hormonal bc healthwise. My granddad was a chemist for 50 years and he was more knowledgeable about the composition and side effects…

And restrictions on birth control and abortion, obscene rates of sexual violence, and the wage gap ARE barbaric and “backwards”. That’s not an opinion anymore than the extent to which the interventionist government is problematic.

There’s also the African Burial Grounds in New York. I haven’t been there in years, but it’s part outdoor monument and part indoor exhibit space and they do a number of celebratory/informative themes throughout the year. I think the stone monument outside is in part a dedicated to those who suffered under slavery and…

And those people, who utilize the generosity of family in emergencies or occasionally, are NOT who my original comment was aimed at.

There’s a really big difference between taking your grandchild for an evening or watching out for an elderly neighbour, and being the sole child-care support for your grandchild so that you child can work. Whether or not they want to do it, they shouldn’t have to. This isn’t an attack on people who can’t afford…

I'm sorry that your mother passed. But your situation doesn't invalidate their frustrations or lack of interest in caring for children that they did not birth and not responsible for.

#NOTALLGRANDPARENTS