Spent the whole evening watching the series Saturday. That was a rough night, but a meaningful one. Though the documentary is edited about as well as a schlocky Dateline episode, the testimonials are so powerful and wrenching that I’m glad I watched it all. The bravery of the women who went on camera is the type of…

“Regarding your last question, I think the majority of Americans ARE interested in those progressive ideals. They just live in cities. Part of our problem is giving states with small populations a fuckton of power and voice under the guise of “balance”. All this system does is embolden minority opinions and hold them…

Whipping his dick out was bad enough, but he also actively tried to ruin the careers of those women and anyone who tried to report on it as well. People don’t talk about that enough. Like so much fucking hand-wringing over a guy’s “ruined reputation” and literally nothing about the reps of all the women he crushed…

Look, I get standing up for a friend. But compare this to what Marc Maron said about C.K., also longtime friends. He had asked C.K. privately about the (at the time) rumors and Louis said they weren’t true. When C.K. admitted to the behavior, Maron said on the podcast that Louis had straight up lied to him and fuck…

“Dooooooooom!”

Just commenting to say it was really lovely and refreshing to see two people disagree and have a rational, thoughtful discussion about their perspectives without being dismissive or disrespectful of one another’s ideas. This was really nice to read and I got some good points to think about from each of you. Thanks!…

Given the disproportionate leverage of rural populations, this means that the rest of us must vote for the most effective* candidate in every primary and general, then hold them to their promises. Stick to this strategy and over time we’ll have the party we want.

I keep wondering if I’m the only one delighted by the idea of the older women mentoring AOC in strategy (and tricks) to properly funnel her energy and policies?

Fellow Revolutions fan here. Much like in 1848, the people leading the political end of the revolution tended to already have financial security and were only willing to take change to a point, but not go as far as the rest of the populace needed to, say, not starve to death or be locked up for criticizing the…

I’m also completely fed up with the contempt so many people have for the older female politicians who have been working for decades. There seems to be a paradox of younger women saying getting older is cool and wishing they had mentors, and then also telling older women that only young firebrands have the answers.

Thank you!

THANK YOU. This exactly. It’s actually a little distressing that we are so obsessed with putting AOC up on a pedestal, from which she will of course fall when she inevitably doesn’t live up to Perfecting Everything Immediately. This is some pretty mild criticism from colleagues she needs on her side, and we’re already…

I don’t disagree, which is why I put the bit in at the bottom [”Maybe you mean if you’re white you conform in other ways so it’s just not as bad for you?”]about how that’s not the point she’s trying to make; and generally phrased my comment as a question and not an attack, which, many of the comments you refer to are…

Thank you, yes, this was largely the point. I wasn’t trying to purposefully drum up “not all white people” comments by including that quote, but kept it in as how it feels to be a brown person in a world where white women, who by and large create and dominate the world’s beauty standards, have suddenly become the face…

One of the big disappointments in the US system, for me, is this unrelenting need to find the next big hero who is going to fix everything. The It Girl or Boy of the moment who says all the right things and there’s a collective swoon - and the same is true of the Villain of the Moment. To watch it occur, over and over…

I really like AOC’s policies, but the response of her colleagues seems pretty human; haven’t most of us been annoyed at a new coworker who shows up with grand ideas (that are potentially great and wonderful!) and starts pushing for them without even getting a sense of how those ideas might have failed in the past, or…

There’s no persecution. But I think her point ISN’T that white women don’t have body hair— it’s that it’s irrelevant if they do. They conform in other ways, so even if they do have visible body hair [which, I’m going to guess most do, but I’m not a Western European white lady (Russian Jewish, Mongolian, and Russian),…

Sure! I know, but we’re talking about white people in *this* particular comment set, and lots of white Jewish people are quite hairy. :)

Or Jewish :)

I’m a little confused; I don’t think white women are excluded from body hair? Maybe western European white women? But. I mean, anyone of Jewish or Mediterranean descent knows what this is about... I was mocked mercilessly for my nipple/tuft of chest hair when I was younger, and certainly got endless mocking in junior…