And the examples sited are pretty basic language. There aren’t that many creative, idiomatic ways to say “That voice...it was at 104 yesterday!”

Latino, asian, and indigenous voter turnout is way lower than white or black voter turnout. So is turnout for people under 30. If either of those groups had shown up to vote, they could have cancelled out the conservative white person vote in 2016. You are also conflating white feminists with white conservatives,…

We as a society have decided that kiddie porn, including fictionalized kiddie porn, is illegal, that playing to those fantasies is actively harmful. I just think the same standard should be applied to incest porn. I also do not think that the government banning incest porn is some slippery slope for the 1st amendment.…

I think that when the fantasy is something criminal and harmful, and depicting the fantasy glamorizes and normalizes said criminal or harmful behavior, there should be restrictions on it. We don’t have to indulge in all of our whims. There is plenty of weirdo kinky shit we can get up to without indulging in rape or…

If you don’t want to fuck your brother/sister/mother/father, don’t watch porn about fucking your brother/sister/mother/father. Watch porn about fucking your brother’s best friend. Or best friend’s dad or whatever.

Incest porn is disgusting and dangerous. There is a reason why it is taboo. It is not edgy or sexy or naughty. It is so disturbing to me that it is popular as a genre.

Beyond misogyny and power tripping, sometimes if you are really horny it can make it easier to make bad decisions around sex. It took some hard lessons for me to realize that sometimes partners would be putting up with sex rather than actively participating, and that no sex was much preferable to bad sex. A hard no…

I think is more of a heads we win, tails you lose situation. Or, if you like that the two rules of republican politics are that, #1, the republicans are always right, and #2, if they are wrong, see rule #1.

ditto. it also struck me as not entirely unreasonable that the director, who has an entire crew ready and the clock ticking, would not give them more time, especially if the director knew that efforts had been made to give rooster space to raise issues, and they had a list of all the scenes being shot.

The thing that was chilling to me was the relationship between insurance companies and doctor behavior related to size. Sure, being really overweight is associated with health risks, but to allow or force doctors to harass people about their weight is worrying - it makes me wonder if we are headed to a future where…

The slate interview is a work of beauty.

Yeah. I enjoyed it. I think I partially enjoyed it because it was 1999 and I didn’t know better, but I have fond memories of that game.

This was my lesson from the TEA Party - electing a bunch of grumpy n00bs who are full of ideological outrage but light on political experience leads to not great outcomes.

I think this is THE issue - in order to win an election you have to raise millions, if not billions, of dollars. In doing so, the people with the biggest advantages tend to be the people with the most money (although not always). And that means that politicians are beholden to those with the money, and have to spend…

Yeah, I mean writ large I think we as a society need to worry less about the perps and more about the victims in situations like this, and there is way too much energy in the wake of #metoo spent on the men caught up in it.  But having empathy for friends who have suffered pretty intense consequences from having done…

I’m using it less for a variety of reasons:

I just love that the party that supported massive tax cuts to the ginormously wealthy,have supported predatory lending practices, and have passed laws that make people less healthy and less able to afford health insurance is concerned about bankrupting the state. I bet in their personal life they do shit like not pay…

I don’t mean so much in the CK/Lauer case - think more in discussions of abuse at large.

Maybe that’s the difference - reacting to an over-punishment on one end and an under-punishment on the other. But it is weird how people who will talk of people who have done horrific things with a lot of empathy will turn around and say “that guy should burn in hell” when talking about a harasser, I think partially…

“Ok” was a poor choice of language. I meant “worthy of empathy.” i see people who work with people who have done really terrible things who are trying to reform the way they are treated by the criminal justice system and who have a lot of empathy for these kids who grew up in tough circumstances and got caught up in…