she wishes

i shamefully googled side-by-sides and i can totally see it. similar facial proportions and she definitely didn’t get that height from robert.

i can see it.

my best-friend-growing-up’s parents’ siblings married each other. not twins, but still. they ended up adopting but i always wondered how closely she’d be related to her cousins if her aunt and uncle had had biological kids.

since they discovered white evangelicals’ money happens to be green, i’d wager.

who’s to say god’s plan wasn’t for them to get IVF and have quadruplets? i don’t understand the shaming/judgey tone here... they seem like a perfectly nice family who aren’t hurting anyone.

i think people get tired of voting in what feel like ruling families... Bush was the son of a former president and Gore a former vice-president. Americans— rugged individualists that we are— hate the idea that our politics are often incestuous. it makes us cynical. that’s why people rallied behind Obama whereas Kerry…

yep. anyone who says that progressivism isn’t compatible with islam is full of shit... the middle east was downright liberal for most of the 20th century. the whole western world is bending over backwards to placate a tyrannical patriarchy masquerading as religious purists. its a joke. it’s all about power and social…

in the mid century, hijabs were rare in islamic culture and feminism was gaining traction. things went backward in a hurry when fundamentalists started gaining power... i think there’s a real lack of awareness of that fact in the west. we think of veils as a tenet of islam that has always been closely adhered to when…

i’m not a particularly religious person so i see all this shit through the same lens. i don’t understand why we disparage, say, conservative christians who forbid makeup and make their daughters wear ankle-length skirts on their chaperoned dates but celebrate hijabs like they’re some kind of personal statement.

i just can’t see the hijab as anything but a patriarchal symbol. unpopular opinion, i know.

you could make a case it’s libel. it’ll probably end up a waste of legal fees, though.

experimental albums rarely do well in the immediate release period. but if it gets the kind of coverage necessary to gain a cult following it’ll probably pick up steam later and stay in the news for some time.

good... because as diseases-with-longterm-ramifications go, this one isn’t too bad if you’re informed. there’s no evidence of it lying dormant for a long time or anything like that. you get it, the symptoms are mild but clear-cut (full body rash and achey joints), and then it’s gone forever.

no. in fact, getting it before she starts trying would actually be her best case scenario, assuming she got her doctor to confirm it. that way, if it does spread to north america while she is trying to get pregnant or in the early stages of a pregnancy she will be immune and have nothing to worry about.

it’s only in your system for a week and symptoms include achey joints, a rash, and flulike nausea, so the chances of getting pregnant while you have it are actually quite low. it’s a tragedy for those who have had their babies affected, but it’s not all that scary in places where birth control is widely available and…

it’s only in your system for about a week and once you have it you are immune. the likelihood of getting pregnant at that exact time is actually relatively low... where birth control is available it’s not poised to be much of a crisis at all. the rub is that symptoms are sometimes to mild as to be undetectable, but…

that hair down on the bottom of her hem is killing me, though. i can’t not see it now.

I fear that even though she’s retracted her claims, this will be yet another incident that causes irreparable damage to to people’s attitude towards migrants.

i think it’s less about the effect it might have on individual girls and more about the fact that it reflects our society’s more generalized ideals.