lol. Speaking of homogeneity: Is it just me, or do the two on the right look like the exact fucking same guy?

The implied “antidote” to women’s “inability to find a ‘suitable’ husband” is a 1950s style structure where women did not achieve outside the home or work as much as men – for women to go back to making less or to working part-time. Men are not asked to step up and adjust *their* behavior to [...]

While I find the fact that “women are now the primary earners for nearly half of American families with children” fine and well from a liberal-feminist standpoint of “women should have access to all the same opportunities as men,” I can’t help but wonder if this signals bad news for families’ wages and economic health. [...]

“Making a claim that something is culture-based is effectively the opposite of pathologizing it, in fact, it’s a form of acculturation”: Sorry, this makes no sense. I have no idea how (1) placing something in the context of culture and (2) pathologizing something are mutually exclusive. Many types of cultures (or sub-cultures) are pathologized (gay [...]

How do these sorry-ass women who refer to their boyfriends using racial slurs that mock their ethnic heritage manage to keep said boyfriends? I guess that’s a rhetorical question.

Um, she’s talking about the politics of the educational system as an institution, not demonizing individual teachers. *As an institution*, one of schools’ main social functions is to maintain discipline. This would be one of those instances where that not-so-savory social function comes into relief.

“So why did it go down like this?”

Boston Marathon bombings. The felony charge is completely absurd, but I’m betting people’s nail-biting about “terrorism” and “homemade bombs” from the wall-to-wall media coverage of the bombings had no small part in the overreaction.

Holy sh*t, I will have to ask my doctor when I can expect to experience homicide, euthanasia, and lethal experimentation (maybe all at the same time?) from my long-term birth control use. Also, wtf is lethal experimentation? Is that like eating a burger at McDonald’s?

“But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.”: Oh, right, he must be talking about over-funded business and law schools, which have been churning out graduates with tens of thousands in debt even though there aren’t enough decent-paying law jobs on the market. That must be what [...]

The last time I stopped to speak with a small group of protesters at our clinic (mostly elderly people and stridently religious people who attend church every day, the fringe kind who also think that birth control is abortifacient), I made a donation in their name and let them know before I left. I always [...]

I know people may disagree with me on this, but. I can’t effing stand Quentin Tarantino. For one, the gratuitous shock-value violence in most of his movies is sensationalist and unnecessary. For two, his movies aren’t that good, yet he (and, bafflingly, critics) are quite over-confident that they are that good. In evidence of this [...]

Damn. I totally could have got knocked up just the other day. But I had already taken my pill. Better luck next time, eh. Twenty-eight years and not even one pregnancy.

I think the problem with maternity leave is really a problem with corporate culture, namely the one that has been exacerbated by workers being attached to phones and computers 24/7: constant availability, and the expectation to work an over-40-hour workweek, and for one person to do the jobs of several people. Corporations still act like [...]

“I hate to break it to you but some women will vote for a man because he is more attractive and they might even be unaware of it.”: Um, men do the exact same thing. There’s no reason to single out women for being susceptible to appearance.

I mean, I don’t know about you, but the only reason I vote for Obama is how sexy he makes me feel when he says “Lilly Ledbetter” and “birth control is an economic issue”. Also, I’m pretty sure that the “committed women” I know who are voting for Romney are more heavily influenced by the [...]

“1) Most porn fans don’t like to see condoms (and certainly not all that other equipment) in their videos, and will seek out videos made outside of California”: I could not give a shit what the entitled white guys who are porn consumers like and don’t like, nor where they “go” to get their porn. [...]

“And as Nina Hartley and others in the industry have pointed out, having sex in your private life isn’t the same thing as having sex in porn. In a porn shoot, the actors are often having sex for hours at a time.”: I’m sympathetic to this argument, but I can’t help but think … whether [...]

While I appreciate No Kid Hungry raising awareness about this – SNAP is the last thing that needs to be cut right now – I can’t help but be creeped out that No Kid Hungry is basically bankrolled by corporate food giants who all have a pretty vested interest in making sure that unequal global [...]

You’ve misunderstood the argument. No one here suggested that working women have more authority to speak on the hardships of motherhood. They did suggest that people need to be aware of the privileges of being a millionaire stay-at-home mom (such as, according to the Daily Kos, having 4 or 5 housekeepers : http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/12/1082748/-Ann-Romney-has-5-housekeepers ). Many [...]

Rosen’s comment was somewhat offensive, but I agree with her basic point. What’s forgotten in the conversation is, well, the fact that women of differing economic statuses have totally different experiences of motherhood (and reproduction), as well as the fact that the Republican Party which the Romneys represent has never given two shits about the [...]