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Short answer: no.
Feminism does not strip rights from other women.
Feminism does not treat LGBTQ+ as second-class citizens.
Feminism does not take away healthcare from millions of people.
One woman's quest for individual power is not feminism.
@NYMag
@lizweil
A teenage boy who did a really shitty thing faced social approbation but otherwise no real consequences, and I'm supposed to be outraged?
@asymmetricinfo
@NYCdisinterest
@JillFilipovic
Maybe to save time you should let us know the exact number of raped elementary school girls that would make the problem statistically meaningful for you.
@anamariecox
I'm a pathologically early person who hates lateness, but I'd rather everyone I ever have plans with be late rather than not wash their hands.
@DBrodyReports
Someone so worried about his safety that he tweeted and took photos while driving with his windshield wipers off (in what looks like 1/2 inches of snow).
@ByronYork
I pointed to the guns and pipe bombs and tasers and all the blunt objects used to bash in the skulls of Capitol police, but I guess I hadn't taken into consideration that they hadn't gotten a proper building permit for their cosplay execution device.
@Maladroithe
It's extra funny, because these companies are obviously having Mother's Day promotions in the first place, so how does it follow that they are somehow erasing mothers?
@anne_theriault
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses."
John Irving, The Cider House Rules
@dylanmatt
It's not copaganda because of some dark ruling class conspiracy, it's copaganda because it largely uncritically treats the police position as infallible.
@curaffairs
During the worst days of the AIDS epidemic, people were not allowed in hospital rooms with their partners and could be kicked out of their own homes by their loved one's families when they died.
@asymmetricinfo
@JudyPrincz
@JillFilipovic
Sure, it'll warp her bones, crush her internal organs, and probably render her infertile going forward, not to mention the psychological damage from the rape and the forced pregnancy she barely understands, but she *might* not die. USA! USA!
@happydiplodocus
@BlakeBlakebabee
"Feminine hygiene" was always a weak outdated euphemism because people thought periods were icky. Are you afraid of the word "period"?
@alexandriajwitt
Imagine if people in the "heartland" examined their biases against those of us on the coasts. We're getting pretty tired of being told we're not real Americans.
@adamwren
@meganmesserly
The story should have included information from doctors about what a full term pregnancy would have done to the body of this small child.
@2old4Timberlake
@GRK42769
@RobLowe
She founded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which keeps financial companies from ripping off their customers. For one.
@MZHemingway
Maybe if you could give us a dollar amount of what each American life is worth to you we could better calculate how many people need to sacrifice their grandparents so the mall can reopen.
@oliverdarcy
@ReliableSources
Huh, a group notoriously hostile to any and all criticisms of how they do their jobs is anonymously whining about how someone else does their job. Pearls remain unclutched.
@JDVance1
My worldview is that the state shouldn't be able to coerce women to have children or *not* have children. No one should have fewer rights and freedoms than JD Vance just because they have a uterus.
@nytopinion
They are perfectly free to express their views, but the rest of us are also perfectly free to tell them their views are bad. It's that second part that vexes the poor dears.
@davidmfaris
The problem is that you and Mounk and many others are conflating the impacts of the pandemic with the impacts of mitigation measures.
What good is a proclamation of normalcy when thousands die every day and still more face possibly permanent disability?
@ZSharf
When did Friends once educate anyone about bigots? The main characters themselves had dated and bigoted views, that's why there is criticism of the show now.
@bendreyfuss
I'm guessing not *everybody* felt safe getting drunk with their profs and guys like you probably got unearned benefits from the increased access.
@JimHawk67327371
@StephenKing
All you had to do on premusk twitter to not get censored is not doxx anyone, not send death threats, and not tweet obvious racial slurs.
Was that difficult for you?
@GShaneMorris
They don't, actually.
But whatever you need to tell yourself to get over your jealousy of the free time and extra disposable income your single and childless peers enjoy.
I can totally visualize Dowd swanning in from her 3 hour liquid lunch to complain that the youngs are too lazy, meanwhile she's been writing the same column over and over again for 20+ years.
“I’m mystified when I hear so many of our 20-something news assistants prefer to work from home. At that age I never could have latched onto so many breaking stories if I hadn’t raised my hand and said, “I’ll go.” Maureen Dowd w Requiem for the Newsroom
@stacey_rudin
@Soozieceu
You could have just, you know, worn the mask instead of repeatedly making yourself the center of attention, but I suspect that latter was your intention all along.
@AndrewCMcCarthy
The fact that several justices apparently perjured themselves during confirmation when they said Roe was settled law doesn't bother you though.
@benshapiro
Who is "we", little man? If you're ignoring the breadth of his works because they're inconvenient to your politics, the dream has no context.
Kind of like what you guys do to the Constitution.
@privilegelog
No. PTO is compensation and it is management's job to make sure there is adequate staffing for the workflow.
Good communication within the team should prevent any problems.