It seemed like a male experience of what a feminist is, and as patronizing as my phrasing might sound, I think that’s a very good thing. Feminists, in right wing terms, are terrifying bogey-women that lurk in the shadows and the term is so heavily loaded that young women, whose livelihoods rely on their own credit…

But abortion can not and should not ever be obsolete. I mean, I know that reducing the number of abortions due to “accidental” pregnancies for whatever reason is a good goal- - better sex education, more availability to contraception etc. but there are other reasons that abortion becomes necessary even beyond the…

Agreed. With the caveat that while I’m pro-choice, choosing to abort out of desperation because of a lack of all the services and support you list is not really a choice. It seems like these pro-lifers want to put their emphasis on the demand side, not the supply side like Republicans do, and more power to them. I…

I have a number of liberal friends who are anti abortion (due to religion, etc). The trick is: they personally do not think abortion is right, but they believe laws banning it are wrong. They believe that in order for them to maintain logical consistency while talking about disliking abortion, they also have to…

I have a hard time reconciling their beliefs with women’s rights, but this is what pro-life efforts should look like. If you want to minimize the use of abortion, you have to build the education and support to do so, not just blame pregnant women for becoming pregnant.

For the millionth time, anti-choice people: If you don’t agree with abortion, don’t have one. Period. And stop condescending to women, telling us that none of us would have abortions if we just had enough support and money to raise a child. If I got pregnant right now, I would abort. If I got pregnant after winning…

What? No! Don’t they need to establish Hillary’s humanity by showing where she came from? What better way to show it than by talking about her mother’s Dickensian upbringing. Trump has a Dickensian upbringing, too, but I think his was more like a “What if Scrooge had a son?”

I also didn’t really understand Maddow’s reaction. Bill’s point seemed to me to be that there was no Bill Clinton without her. And that while yes, he is a great orator who enjoys politics, she’s actually a much more intelligent, results oriented person. He was dismissive of the “fun" stuff that everyone knows he's…

I love me some Rachel Maddow, but I agree she was off the mark last night. In fact, I think it’s all the more feminist that Bill spoke about her the way he did. He’s an ex-president, but rather than give the traditional convention speech of an ex-president, he gave the traditional convention speech of a potential…

I am so impressed by the DNC so far. It has inspired me all over again, which I didn’t really think was possible at this point. After the RNC trash fire, I was nervous for the DNC but I look forward to each night now and can’t wait to vote in November.

There were a few people on MSNBC last night that said they didn’t like Bill’s speech (at least the first half of the speech) because it focused on Hillary in relation to her husband, but I had a totally different takeaway. I saw it as a brilliant reversal of the typical “this is my husband behind the scenes” speech…

You guys are really killing it on this coverage, Stassa. This is a great article among great articles on The Slot, and I’m really glad you guys are here.

Yeah what I loved about Bill’s speech was the answer to the “Hillary Succeeded because of nepotism” complaint—he made it clear (to me at least) that Hillary Clinton’s career would have been, perhaps, even more successful had she remained Hillary Rodham.

it’s also saying that you don’t mind killing other people’s children with your preference for a non-autistic child through the diminishment of herd immunity and spreading disease to immune-compromised individuals.

I loved when Hillary said there are also young girls out there who will be our President in the future.

I’ve said it elsewhere and I’ll say it again here: the last two days of the DNC could not have been planned better. Coming out of the gate with experienced, respected Democratic star power who could handle the heckling, shouting and disorder was brilliant. Michelle Obama’s ability to command the respect and silence of…

This is my grandmother’s story as well! She’ll be 102 by Election Day and she’s still as sharp as ever (and liberal as ever) and she can’t wait to vote for the first woman president ever. So proud of her :)

My grandmother was 89 when she passed away a month ago and in hospice at the end when she was starting to be pretty unaware and we knew it would be over soon we just went ahead and told her Hillary had been elected and my grandmother, the lifelong democrat who went back to college in her 40s, was so happy. So we need…

I know I’m like 10 minutes away from starting my monthly grind but I am emotionally unstable in the best way. I am sobbing again because of this woman WHO WATCHED HER MOTHER VOTE IN THE FIRST ELECTION THAT INCLUDED WOMEN and also because my own three daughters are going to witness a woman elected president of these…

I won't lie, I teared up when she cast her votes.