Let’s be realistic. Under any potential presidency we will have no additional mental health funding. The house is gerrymandered to a solid Republican majority for the next ever. Until liberals sort that out, bickering about the policy differences between Bernie and Hillary is pointless. Only detrimental. A Donkey as…

Transguy here. The term “pass” is still common among trans people, but I’m uneasy about it too. I prefer “read male/female” to “pass male/female”. It’s more accurate and doesn’t imply we are being sneaky and devious.

You listed my pantry, substituting Crystal for Frank’s. Hot tip: Since Crystal is cheaper than Frank’s, there is less guilt dumping a whole bottle of it in a pot with melted butter (1-1 ratio) and then tossing wings into that mix.

If you have one go-to hot sauce, you are doing it wrong. Regardless on whether you like, hate or are meh about Sriracha.

Somebody told me: “Sleep when the baby sleeps. Clean when the baby cleans.”

Add a dash of food poisoning and it’s just like you are at Chipotle, but without the long line.

No, the point is she is consenting, and playfully mocking the social conventions.

Not really the same thing. Tarzan happened because overt sexism and racism were normative. The movie reflects that. Baby it’s cold outside lyrics were because women’s sexual autonomy was not normative. And the song challenges that with playful lyrics.

Three things you need to sort out.

It’s likely not a conscious bias. Society weighs fathers involvement with sons way more than daughters, and as if fathers are the only male role models for boys (which is rubbish, lesbians raise great sons, male role models are everywhere). Plus, as people have pointed out, this is for, like 2-8 weeks. Kids literally…

First off, the guys I hang with don’t go around saying “I’m a feminist” because 1) it’s not a pick up line and 2) believing in equality for women is a baseline, a given. But they aren’t afraid of the word either, and will say they are feminists when asked.

You have a very narrow view of feminism. Feminism is about dismantling the patriarchy and bringing equality to the sexes. Sure, a large part of that is creating spaces and amplifying women’s voices, which have been pushed out by the patriarchy. However, patriarchy hurts women and men. Feminism is also as much about…

If a man supports equality for women with his actions and words, he is a feminist. Limiting feminism to only women who support equal rights for women is a bit sad and ridiculous. 1. For excluding half of the population in the responsibility for equality. 2. The crazy fact there are women that don’t believe in label or…

My brother-in-law is Spanish. There reception was all-night/morning and involved woven baskets filled to the brim with cigarettes being carted around by some of the early-20s ladies in the wedding party. I think this is a common southern European thing.

Context and Surrogacy. You keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

Surrogacy is most often used with the couples sperm/egg. I’m being nitpicky because there are nits to pick. Strikethrough “surrogacy” for “egg donation” or “many forms of fertility treatment” and you’ve made your point in this case and wider context. Your substance I totally agree with.

Doh, no less despicable.

Actually, just to be THAT guy, surrogacy can happen with the couple’s sperm and egg, making it 100% the couples DNA. This occurs when a woman’s eggs are fine but her uterus is not an option for carry (or less often, chooses to not carry).

Yes, labs want no part in this. The insemination happened when the reproductive lab made embryos. No lab will do that without signed consents and no legal question (verbal withdrawal). Also, no lab will implant an embryo without signed consents and no legal question either. If there is ambiguity whether part of a…

Infertility is an incredibly psychologically painful medical condition. For many, but not all couples, it is treatable. There is no reason logically why having a biological child through IVF is any more “selfish” than having a child than through intercourse (unless by accident). Sperm meets egg. There might be help…