Conservatives making political capital out of Naomi Wolf being abjectly wrong doesn’t mean Naomi Wolf was right, especially when her defence of being wrong provides conflation for even worse people to point to. 

Your story would still have been impactful without mentioning the weight of the man who treated you improperly.

So he didn’t accept you as before, yet here you are talking about his weight and him being obese?  Do you not see the hypocrisy here? 

This was my reaction, too. My ADHD and sensory processing issues (plus severe mental health issues) went undiagnosed until I was a teenager/adult. So reading this story made me nauseous, thinking back to some eerily similar “teaching” moments from early childhood years that were pretty fucking damaging. I can’t even im…

I have disabilities, which means slight coordination problems. It was worse when I was a kid in some ways, so I'm really glad this guy didn't have a disabled kid. 

Those six hours wasted could have been a good time spent your kid

I would say that shaming her on the internet for not knowing something that he admittedly failed to teach her might be abuse.

It reminds me of that asshole who shot his daughter’s laptop. (If you hate yourself, here’s his YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6OSygSHWSo4pbV5ttl2YPg). I didn’t have an issue with punishment in general—he described his daughter as unwilling to do a simple chore and also being nasty to their…

This was so uncomfortable to read! so smarmy and yet so obviously written for public consumption and approval. it reminded me of tactics my parent would use. gross.

When my 10 year old does not know how to do something he never done before, I teach him. How novel is that? Those six hours wasted could have been a good time spent your kid, not seen them frustrated trying to open a can of beans.

Don’t be so childish and reductive, I am not saying I am the sole spokesperson for all autistic people ever. I am speaking for myself, I am speaking for my son. Every day, we experience the kind of ignorance you displayed in your comment. Every single day. So I speak up when I see it. Calling my expression of my…

Wow, the autism rights movement is a ‘crusade’ to you? Do you even realise how offensive that is? You clearly have no idea what you are talking about, and you have no idea who you are talking to right now either. Just take a seat, smh.

Are we really going to believe there were no disabled actors that could have done this justice? Really?

That’s a terrible comment. This might astound you, but autistic people are not/do not appear to be ‘messed up’. They are autistic, that is all. 

Yet, I am not wrong.

Obama could have done more than he did to push for the Garland and held daily angry press conferences and used the bully pulpit. So, I do find a lot of blame with Obama in this regard. 

You are correct. She was selfish and her selfishness is likely to result in everything she achieved being reversed.

A 5% 5 year survival rate. She knew this was coming. She could set her clock to this. She didn’t retire.

“Same for John Lewis in Congress.

Also let’s end lifetime appointments. Letting justices decide when they want retire if they’re over 75 is such a terrible fucking idea. It lets them entertain fantasies that they can live forever and thus are not morally obligated responsible to consider the consequences of dying at the worst time to ensure that…