Yes! I had the books before I ever got one of the dolls and I still have the books. I re-read some of the Samantha ones as an adult and realized that the Nellie story lines have strongly informed my political views. 

Mattel didn’t understand that the historical stories were a large part of the attraction of the dolls.   

If this stuff is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

SO much of my apartment is West Elm so I feel like I need to FIGHT but POINTS WERE MADE

Sanders has a cultural blind spot. Of course, he opposes ethnic, racial, gender and identity bigotries, but he’s got the practical perspective of a childish libertarian who wants to pretend that none of that shit matters and is better off ignored. That if we become too focused on demanding cultural equality, we…

IMO it’s one of the exact reasons Bernie can’t and shouldn’t be the nominee (flowing over to his waiting two years to address sexual harassment AND pay equity complaints from his own female staffers - as well as waiting till the exact day and time of the Senate vote to impose sanctions on Oleg Deripaska so he didn’t…

I’ll gladly vote for Sanders if he’s the nominee, but this is bad, and as the piece points out, absolutely unnecessary on his part. It would appear (based on this, his unwillingness to criticize Tulsi Gabbard and not endorsing the Warren-backed Cisneros,) that his endorsements come down to pure personal loyalty. On…

My favorite bad endorsement of his is Tim Canova. That dude has been trying—unsuccessfully—to unseat Rep. Wasserman-Schultz for years now. He’s also a Seth Rich truther. Bernie now acts like he doesn’t know the guy.

Another unforced error was when he endorsed an anti-choice candidate for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. There was no reason for him to get involved in that race, but he went out of his way to show that he’s cool with politicians who would vote against abortion rights.

No part of me believes that Bernie has any interest in doing better. He’s made it perfectly clear that he’s not interested in confronting racism and sexism in specific ways.

Sorry to be the person who criticises the headline, but I did read the article first, and then I went away for an hour and came back after thinking about it, so I feel okay about criticising the headline.

Whether the topic is feminism, nerd stuff, sports, whatever. Bloggers in general just seem to be terrible people. And honestly, it’s the widespread adoption of the Gawker tone that led to this and what has come to be the Gen-X/Millennial writing style:

So racism, misogyny, misogynoir, patriarchy and women agents of the patriarchy ruined feminism. The same forces that elevated Gloria Steinem over Dorothy Pitman-Hughes, elevated the Lindy West(s) of this age over the Jamilah Lemieux(s) of this age . The common denominator is not the internet.

That robots vs. cryptocurrency one was a hard decision. Ultimately though I had to put the fear Terminator 2 instilled in me of AI trying to kill all of us eventually on the back burner and went with the clear and present danger of crytocurrency instead.

Anyone else over here grumpily waiting for superhero media to run its course? Sorry not sorry.

Edison bulb with a shade? That’s a horse of a different color.

That bothers me too. There are plenty of far left elected officials who are democrats. AOC is a democrat. Bernie ran in 2016, joined the democratic party, lost the nomination, became an “independent” again, then decided to run in 2020, rejoined the democratic party.

Also, isn’t at least one of them (probably both) incredibly racist and misogynistic? PASS.

Or utilizing party resources only when you want to and not paying dues...you’d think a guy who loves unions would get that.

USDA recommends not washing it at home.