The idea of “sex is worse than violence” has always disturbed me. Dominant American culture definitely censors sex more than violence, and I don’t really get it. While really young kids probably shouldn’t see graphic depictions of either, I would much rather my older child see healthy depictions of sexuality than a bunch of gratuitous [...]

Yes, I remember when the movie Towelhead came out a few years ago (this is not a comment on the movie itself) and there were all of these reviewers who were disgusted that there was a scene in which menstrual blood was shown (I think it was on a pad or a tampon?). One reviewer [...]

I didn’t mean to make it sound like Latina/os and children were mutually exclusive groups. I mean that since they don’t care about protecting all Latina/os, or all children, and *especially* Latina/o children, they have no right to use this kind of rhetoric. What about all the places that Latina/o children are not safe outside [...]

Great news. This billboard always made me angry. They don’t care about making the word safe for Latina/os (or children) *outside* the womb, so this was really a dirty way to get their politics across.

From the first time that I saw a billboard for this movie and saw that one of the women was, oh my gosh, fat, I immediately knew that I would not go see it, as I immediately assumed I would have to endure fat jokes and a stereotypical character who perpetuated harmful myths and generalizations [...]

And your point is also good because the math is evidence suggesting that they *don’t* have the intention of applying it “equally.”