Very rarely is anyone interested in suing someone  to collect their personal assets - unless the person is super wealthy, you will spend more money on lawyers than you will be able to collect from the person. She is after the insurance policy of the company that is vicariously liable for the pilot and therefore has to…

I have noticed a bunch of posts online to the effect, “both can be true: kobe was a legend and a rapist” - sure- but i would say more appropriately, “both can be true: a person can be a rapist, and it is cruel/inappropriate/unnecessary/rude to publicly degrade a person immediately following their tragic death”.

I literally had to read the opening paragraph 5 times because I thought there was no way she gave a eulogy at someone’s funeral in which she accused the dead person of sexual harassment in front of their grieving family. Further, I thought I must have been reading wrong since the writer seems to be mentioning this…

The idea that you are a pop feminist if you dont agree with Esther Wang’s idea of feminist politics is, in my opinion, a form of internalized sexism. in fact, this whole article reads like internalized sexism “you aren’t a good girl unless you agree with the authority”. Amy believes in paid family leave and I am…

my parents took me when I was 6 years old - to date it is one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. i remember sitting there telling myself “dont worry, it is going to work out okay, everything always works out okay”, and then he died. I thought it couldnt be true for the next twenty minutes and kept waiting…

there was an excellent oprah episode about this back in the day. It was unforgettable and completely changed my mind on the subject. I have come to the conclusion that those who blame the parents are just ignorant/misinformed- that anyone who listens to these stories would understand that the only feeling they should…

If I was forced to choose between having to (1) be a surrogate for someone or (2) have to do sex work for 9 months - i would without hesitation choose to be a surrogate and I doubt I am in the minority. 

I think a lot of the stigma and judgement associated with surrogacy has more to do with internalized sexism - the idea that a woman’s primary worth is in being able to bear children and that a good woman should gladly sacrifice anything for her children.

Canadian here- I graduated law school with about $70k in debt, which I know is pretty good for a law school degree. In Ontario (Canada) I got tuition credits which meant that for the amount of tuition I paid in the past I could get a certain amount deducted from my income tax each year I was working. I ended up…

I think it is important not to oversimplify the issue. It is not black and white. I have no doubt that there are many sex-workers out there for which sex-work is a good option for them and I do not believe that sex-work is inherently degrading or indicative of moral-blameworthiness. However, to pretend that everyone…

I mean either we have real post-pregnancy bodies in ads or we don’t. I think the world is better off when we do. I don’t have children but my mother had three and she has been ashamed to show her stomach to anyone other than her immediate family ever since. Would that be different if she grew up in a world where…

no- it is an inherent advantage of having testicles. use common sense - its cheating having her compete against other women - we separate males from females for a reason - she should compete with the men or remove her advantage to compete against women - 

Because other people have Semenya’s physical benefits (males) and we separate males from females in athletic competition because of those exact physical benefits. A more analogous example would be if we separated Phelps characteristics people from non-phelps characteristics people to allow non-phelps characteristic…

I am incredibly lazy. I was recovering from a bad cold and coughing up tons of phlegm. I was eating a box of Cheez-Its on the couch. I finished most of it, just the crumbs left. I had to cough up some phlegm and didnt have any tissues so I spit into the Cheez-it box. Multiple times. a few hours later, my sister then co…

My support for Israel existing as a Jewish state has absolutely nothing to do with islamophobia and/or racism. My grandparents are holocaust survivors- my grandfather’s entire family (5 siblings and parents) were all slaughtered in it - the country I live in and love now, Canada, had a policy during that time about…

Vegetarianism and fascism do not overlap in the same way anti-semitism and anti-zionism do. While disagreeing with Israel’s policies does not necessarily make you anti-semitic, much of anti-zionism is 1984 like doublespeak and being able to recognize that is essential to understand the intense hatred jewish people face…

Esther - is there a reason you went easy on Farrakhan with the jew bashing quotes you chose? For example, not including, “I’m not an anti-semite. I’m anti-termite”, or “Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit” or “It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in…

Coerced sterilization is never okay - and I think that by ignoring the context, you are not adequately defending the point. Recent coerced sterilizations - at least the cases that I have been able to read about- involved drug addicted women who have had 5+ kids all taken away from their care from child protection…

What, like its hard?