WTF, they need to calm down and be grateful you’re giving them a grandchild!

I have to admit sometimes feeling sad for women I know who take their husbands’ names, but I’m not going to get mad at them about it or give them shit as long as they don’t bother me about my own name decision. And people have different reasons for going along with this patriarchal tradition, and have discussions…

The coolest one?

That is true, though for example in Spanish the solution is just that the grandfathers’ surnames of get passed on to the children, so it’s still not really equal. Though it’s much better, in my opinion, than the woman having to change her name 1/3 through her life.

Just do whatever you want. He doesn’t have to change his name if you don’t change yours. There’s no law saying married couples have to have the same last name. My mom hyphenated her last name and my dad just kept his without adding hers to it. That’s been working well for them for like 35 years.

A close friend of mine and her husband both adopted a new name for that reason. Neither one of them wanted to keep their fathers’ names.

Yes, obviously I’m generalizing. And I know that there are lots of Protestant churches that have an immensely important musical element that nonbelievers might not want to leave behind. I wasn’t saying that Protestants are only driven by faith and dogma, merely that the conception of religious identity as based solely…

Well, there’s less absurd stuff that goes on in shabbat services. You parade the Torah around, which I guess is a little weird if you think it’s “just” a book, but I like seeing people celebrate old books so it’s fine by me. You say some blessings and eat some bread and drink some wine. There’s a lot of stuff about…

I have no connection to Morehouse and don’t know the details about his appointment. I just know about him from seeing him harass a WOC in his field on social media and call her a racist bitch for daring to stand up for herself and share the link about his hoax.

Christians appropriated the holiday from other cults, so it’s not for them to decide who gets to celebrate it. Especially not in the United States, where celebrating Christmas is the expected norm, non-Christians have to endure months of sleigh bells and carols and being expected to buy presents for coworkers, and you…

It’s not journalists’ job to report on things going the way they’re supposed to go or congratulate people doing their jobs the way they’re supposed to. The reason we hear about bad cops in the news isn’t because of some media conspiracy to make profits, but because it’s newsworthy when someone gets murdered for…

Yeah, that’s why. I grew up attending synagogue, celebrating Jewish holidays, going to Hebrew lessons, eating Ashkenazi foods and generally participating in a subculture that was very different from what my WASP friends grew up in, even though we lived on the same street and attended the same schools. That doesn’t go…

Well, it is of course both a religion and a culture (or, to be more accurate, a group of cultures). The scary thing, though, is that many of those who identify more strongly with the religion part are trying to exclude the rest of us from our shared heritage.

It’s sad they believe so hard in such a powerless god. He wants to bring us all to heaven to snuggle with him, but can’t do so unless first humanity descends into decades-long war so that his adherents can build a temple to him on one specific site? No thanks, I’ll pass on that god.

I mean, it’s all made up anyhow, just by different groups of people with differing details.

They want someone to blow up the Dome of the Rock so that the temple can be rebuilt there, a necessity for Jesus to come back. These people are terrorists.

WTF? Why was that even relevant to the funeral sermon?

Personally, I find it useful to map it out clearly and literally so you can bring up the most ridiculous aspects whenever you get stuck in a conversation with someone who believes that crap. Because they’re always super vague about it and try to skip over the bad parts.

It’s incredibly cruel as well. If you believe all that nonsense, you should want to put off the Apocalypse for long enough for everyone to accept Jesus, not rush it so that the world’s billions never get a chance to spend eternity nestled in his loving embrace.

I would prefer to get to live my life.