Yeah, I agree with you completely. It is incredibly myopic and ultimately, if we want to learn from history and avoid this kind of tragedy, then we should be honest about the kind of country Cuba was prior to communism, which was a very unequal and repressive dictatorship. People like my family lost their wealth and…

Yeah, as a lefty of Cuban descent, I find this common amongst my lefty brethren even in the states. I recently moved to a major city in a blue state and there is an ironic Communist bar here my friend thought it would be funny to take me to, until he saw the Che Guevara pics all over the wall and apologized to me (I…

Thank you. I am of Cuban heritage and grew up hearing my family go on nonstop about the evils of the Castro regime (it was like, from their view, Cuba was a perfect paradise until Castro came in). I do not agree with the dictatorships in Cuba in the slightest and I agree they are oppressive and wrong. I sympathize…

The heels thing as practically mandatory for women is so odd to me. I’m a woman who has happened to have arthritis, mostly in my ankles and feet, since I was about 13 so heels just are not an option for me. But in workplaces I have been judged as presenting unprofessional, I have been questioned on this, I violated…

Same!

Something tells me this one is a few steps backwards from the original...

Yeah, I’m personally a bit uncomfortable with the whole “I choose my choice” kind of philosophy, though at the same time I’m also uncomfortable with positioning myself as some arbiter of feminism, so it’s complicated for me. But there is a bit of rationalizing decisions that fall completely in line with hegemonic…

Whoa, as someone who only seems to get it at night, I am embarrassed to admit I thought it was this way for everyone :-|