Mrs. Murphy may also be like Blanche Devereaux of The Golden Girls. Looking to rent rooms at least partially for the purpose of companionship and support in her widowhood.

One of the most powerful messages in the book, IMO, was the arbitrary way prisoners were placed and moved between prisons and how this prevented them from seeing their families and made transitioning out of prison so much more difficult.

The US Military Academy and the US Army feel that demonstrating unity, solidarity, and pride is appropriate?

My son is 8. Most of the girls in his class don’t match half the time. They simply don’t care about clothing or their appearance. They are much more concerned with playing minecraft and pickleball. Because they are 8. And minecraft and pickleball are fun and matching your t-shirt to your shirts isn’t.

Will Harvard be extending their attitude towards gender discrimination to faculty? Hiring practices, tenure reviews, lab space allocation, tolerance for sexual harassment, etc.?

Harvard will have to do that anyway. They have a men’s swimming team and a women’s swimming team. Each organization is open only to members of the respective sexes.

I live in Texas. You can’t move a gunnstore without bumping into another gun store.

Hold on, hold on, hold on....

I would host a fundraiser, but it would probably make the problem worse.

I am fortunate enough to have never been sexually assaulted. But I do have my own tragedies to endure.

There are things you survive. There are things you get over or move past.

I hope none of these brave, opinionated men ever find themselves in my position: Trying to navigate a terribly designed bathroom in a wheelchair and needed to call your husband for help.

I’m wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and sneakers. Where am I supposed to pee without getting harassed?

I’m not advocating dumping on anyone.

Being part of a cohesive family is absolutely a privileged.

I think that plan would foster a lot of animosity between African Americans from lower socio-economic backgrounds and those from wealthy backgrounds.

Women regularly walk into buildings named after men who denied them the right to vote. It isn’t empowering, but it is history. And some of these men did great things outside of oppressing women.

You are right, I might be amazed by the baptism record keeping skills of a small town in Guatemala. But my family isn’t from Guatemala. And we weren’t baptized.

IMHO, identifying one’s ancestors (and proving the relationship) required a certain amount of privilege.

I have very curly hair that usually looks like I have had a run in with a fork and an electrical outlet.