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@commoderate
Now would be a really good time for Republicans in the Senate and the House to realize that they do have a lot of power with a Republican president, and to use it wisely. Aka don't be fucking idiots and try to get away with roe v wade and gay marriage and instead focus on fiscally conservative policies that can help the issues that democrats have tried to tackle and failed.
Not interested in talking to people who think bush should be in jail😌
me growing up: I don't understand how an empire like Rome with so many resources and such a clear advantage could tear itself apart, it just seems unlikely
me watching the 2016 election cycle: oh
You see, it's kind of a coincidence bc when I reported my attacker and they had a hearing at my university, he hired a lawyer and his defense was "I'm a feminist, I understand consent and would never do anything like this, no one has more respect for women than I do" Thankfully, the panel expelled him from campus, and I have never seen him since. But I can't imagine being a woman and feeling enough confidence to come forward about being assaulted and having to see him running for the highest office in the country and on top of it all, having to read bullshit like that. It's disgusting.
Honestly considering changing my name bc idk if I can completely stand with this party
It's true that republicans have become whiny babies. I can't stand it
I hate having to say this, but Hillary is the only competent option we have at this point
In a time of rampant statism, feeding the homeless has become a revolutionary act.
GOOD
“Last December, the Dallas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes it illegal to serve food to the homeless without jumping through a statist myriad of bureaucratic hoops, including a fee, training classes, and written notices.
One should not need to file multiple forms and pay a fee to obtain a permit to give food to those in need who are willingly ready to accept it. The folks at Don’t Comply know this.”
We might be seeing the beginning of a new attitude regarding women and the menstrual cycle. While many, especially in the workplace see the topic as taboo...one compa
If this becomes widespread practice, I don’t ever
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want to hear you utter the words ‘wage gap’ ever again for the rest of all eternity.
Special treatment, not equality.
Feminists claim to be trying to cure societies hatred and disrespect for women but every single one of these policies can only hope to engender actual hatred for women.
This is a great way to make sure women can’t ever get hired by anyone ever again.
Why in the hell would you hire someone who can’t work for a whole week every month? As a female manager, I sure wouldn’t go for that.
This is ridiculous. Especially because you /know/ some women will take complete advantage of this. Like I almost never get cramps or feel ill during my cycle, but what would stop me from taking the whole paid week off anyways?
Especially in a job that isn’t rote and requires communication and timelines, like, idunno, those STEM fields you guys really want women to get into? Just sayin.
1. This is a private company policy, not a state or federal regulation. Don’t like it? Don’t work there. If it is not a feasible model, it will surely fail on its own.
2. Just because one woman says “my periods aren’t that bad”, doesn’t mean that applies to all women. While I’m happy that you are spared, I still suffer from extreme cramps, nausea, and anemia when on my menstrual cycle due to a hormone imbalance (the biochemistry of which I could go into but I’ll pass for now). These symptoms can be debilitating and render me incapacitated at times. I have passed out while working in the lab because of this, which leads me to my next point,
3. The lovely STEM field comment. I can tell you that the most important aspect when it comes to working in a lab is that you are 100% capable and not ill. Working when you are light headed can, at the very least, ruin a run due to the dizziness and confusion associated, and you can imagine the more serious repercussions. Also, deadlines are not as tight as you might think, as most of the time is spent rerunning samples and adjusting equipment. I have worked ill in the lab (half of the time due to my period) and it has caused more harm than if I had simply stayed out of the lab and instead ran numbers and did research from the comfort of my bed, with a heating pad to my stomach and a water bottle at my side.
But please, do tell ME, a WOMAN IN STEM, how taking care of myself when I’m on my period is ridiculous
Conservatives: I like Capitalism.
Conservatives: Ok but like except when private firms utilize incentives to attract female talent and increase competition through a labor market, then it’s not cool because it hurts my feelings.
(via Over 14,000 Sign Petition To Remove Paul Ryan From RNC Convention Chair - Stumpin’ For Trump!)
He already said that if Trump requests it he will step down……… unnecessary drama ….
Yall know how truly dumb this all is? You want to remove the speaker from chairing the convention because he said he doesn’t know if he can support Donald trump. Same Donald trump who has given money to everyone from Clinton to Kerry to Obama. Who’s convention fight against the “establishment” is led by Roger Stone a Nixon employee turned Democrat who voted for Obama. Yall are just as big of a joke as the rest. The same trump you all believe will make a 2A strong court while he’s done nothing but say Obama spoke for him and every American after Newtown. A guy who wants to raise taxes but wont release his (you do know every candidate that refused has lost right? No correlation but something to think about) a guy that has already flipped flopped this election on the stupid shit you claim to care about. I just hope you are at least smart enough to not care about transgendered people using their choice bathroom because rightfully so, Trump doesn’t support the law in NC.
also kinda ironic trump has a thing for telling losers to go away, yet palin a loser VP choice that left her governorship to be a reality tv star is leading the fight against Ryan.
You know things are fucked up when @hobocarl has to start getting serious.
Some of you who are raising boys should probably be warned of what I've advised my daughter to do if someone snaps her bra.
When Feminists Become Parents
TL:DR - Mom teaches that if boys do obnoxious shit to girls, collapse their esophagus. Girls should do the same to her own son. No word on what to do when it’s the other way around.
No, mom teaches girls that if a boy touches her inappropriately without her permission, defend yourself. Bra snapping and butt grabbing are rampant in middle schools and there’s really no other equally embarrassing, widespread, or frankly inappropriate behavior that girls engage in at the expense of boys. Obviously boys get in trouble when they’re caught, but school systems don’t do a good job of giving out good punishment. And I don’t think girls should rely on someone else to defend them when they’re perfectly capable. It’s also good practice for what they will inevitably encounter at some other point in their adult life. “Defending themselves is a life skill that no one can take away from them.” That’s a hard statement to disagree with.
Are you joking? Girls don’t do inappropriate behavior to boys? I have been touched and grabbed against my consent. I have been kicked in the balls numerous times. The couple of times when I fought back, I got sent to the principal and not her. Are you so unaware of how mean girls bully boys?
Getting kicked in the balls is a painful, violent sexual assault. It is extremely embarrassing to be on the ground holding yourself while people laugh and watch. This is an experience that almost every boy has had.
Your experience of being harassed is not unique to your sex. How did you come to the conclusion that boys are not bullied by girls? And that punching someone in the throat is an equal and acceptable response to bra snapping? Please reconsider your beliefs.
But did you get kicked in the balls everyday? Multiple times a day? By people you don't even know? Getting kicked in the balls is obviously horrible, but it's significantly more painful and less common than bra snapping so the two really aren't comparable. To end something that is so widespread, girls need to be taught to stick up for themselves. Saying that girls shouldn't be taught to defend themselves because boys get bullied too doesn't make any sense. Punching in the throat is an acceptable response to sexual harassment, which bra snapping, butt grabbing, and ball touching/kicking fall under.
Some of you who are raising boys should probably be warned of what I've advised my daughter to do if someone snaps her bra.
When Feminists Become Parents
TL:DR - Mom teaches that if boys do obnoxious shit to girls, collapse their esophagus. Girls should do the same to her own son. No word on what to do when it’s the other way around.
No, mom teaches girls that if a boy touches her inappropriately without her permission, defend yourself. Bra snapping and butt grabbing are rampant in middle schools and there's really no other equally embarrassing, widespread, or frankly inappropriate behavior that girls engage in at the expense of boys. Obviously boys get in trouble when they're caught, but school systems don't do a good job of giving out good punishment. And I don't think girls should rely on someone else to defend them when they're perfectly capable. It's also good practice for what they will inevitably encounter at some other point in their adult life. "Defending themselves is a life skill that no one can take away from them." That's a hard statement to disagree with.
im going to cry
Why does everything sound like a meme nowadays
Honestly I'd rather John Cena just slam him
Did these instances of racism happen today or fifty years ago?
If anyone has citations that’d be nice.
I can do one better and debunk these with sources. 1. “Blacks to the Back” in 2006: This situation, to what should be nobody’s surprise, was misinterpreted and blown woefully out of proportion. The bus driver instructed her older students to move to the back and make room for the newer students, and this is something she had done for over twenty years. This had nothing to do with race at all. In fact, a former black student who rode the bus of this driver spoke out and had this to say: “’Ms. Davis was my bus driver from elementary through his school,’ says Kapatrea Smith, who rode Davis’ bus for 12 years. ‘When I heard the allegations I just felt compelled to call her and let her know that all the years I rode her bus I never heard her make a racist remark or show any prejudices towards me or any of the blacks kids on the bus,’ says Smith.” http://www.ksla.com/story/5328738/blacks-to-the-back-bus-driver-accused-of-segregating-students-speaks-out?clienttype=printable 2. Alabama Sorority Desegregation in 2013: First thing that should be noted is when I search the exact question they pose in the above video, “When did the university of alabama desegregate their sororities?” the top results are as shown below.
marieclaire.com, buzzfeed.com, jezebel.com, & huffingtonpost.com Yeah, that’s where everyone goes for their most credible information, right? Anyway, I feel like the implication above was that this discriminatory behavior was in some kind of way condoned by the University or all of the sorority members or something, because I mean it’s not like the fact that discrimination and racism still exists is a fact many people actively dispute. So the first thing I want to clarify is that it is illegal and was illegal in the state of Alabama and at the University of Alabama specifically in 2013 to discriminate against students on the basis of their race, as I think, most people would have assumed. And there did seem to be discrimination in the sororities specifically at the University of Alabama up until 2013, with only 1 black student having been accepted to a sorority at the school prior to 2013. Gentry McCreary, a former director of Greek affairs from 2007 to ’11 for the university said the following when this was at the height of controversy, “The issue is the alumnae and not the undergraduates. There’s definitely some fear, whether real or imagined, that there would be some repercussions if a sorority took an African-American member. They’re able to subvert the will of the chapter, and it’s gone on for far too long.” The implication being it wasn’t even for an inherent racial prejudice that the students of the sorority really had, but a fear-induced obligation they felt to maintain tradition from pressures of alumnae. The university itself, however, was only growing in diversity at the time, more than ever, and even elected its first black student to an executive position in student government just a year prior. http://nation.time.com/2013/09/16/university-of-alabama-moves-to-end-segregated-sorority-system/ 3. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I-I-S-R-A-C-I-S-T –What does that spell? 2013: I actually thought this was a common known fact, though of course the wording above is extremely loose and I don’t even think technically correct. The whole thing was a clerical error that didn’t actually influence Mississippi life in any real legal way. The document abolishing slavery was actually in existence and was ratified –just never sent to the archivist to be recorded. Because the document was ratified and everything, when the error was pointed out, all that had to be done was have it archived and it was official. And if it had been legal in a meaningful sense it ought to be more of a testament against racism and to where society has come that people chose not to act on it than the other way around. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/02/19/172432523/after-snafu-mississippi-ratifies-amendment-abolishing-slavery
4. North KKKarolina 2013: Okay, last one. I don’t even want to bother acknowledging this one, but ok. William L. Saunders (1835-1891) is who this is referring to, and yes, he was a chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1800s. He was also a lawyer, soldier, editor, state official, and amateur historian. In essence, his notable achievements were not limited to his KKK affiliation. The building was named after him in 1922. Idk how it’s so unbelievable and mind blowing people were racist in the 20′s but ok. I find it more unbelievably far-fetched that we somehow expect people to constantly review every year every hall and building and event named after someone in history and then rummage through their receipts and be outraged at the first offensive thing we come across and rename everything. When someone put it to a vote to have the building renamed because of the affiliation the motion was passed the first time. http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/saunders-hall-to-be-renamed-carolina-hall @huffingtonpost you got the treatment I usually reserve for @micdotcom today! I can’t tag micdotcom anymore, by the way. Wonder why… lol.
I thought you were anti-feminist??
I was. I had a lot of bad experiences with feminism and got frustrated with a lot of the core aspects. But recently, despite those issues, I've seen the necessity of it in everyday life and can't reject the entire philosophy just because I disagree with some of it. I have a similar relationship with the Republican Party.
