First of all, a huge “Thank You!” you to Steve Holt, the writer who gave me this idea. Check out his awesome tweet here. I watched the interview Holt referenced where Tucker Carlson had a Zoom meeting with an 18-year-old college student. Holt wrote a list of things Tucker Carlson…

TW: Discussion of DV, SA “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?” Florida Congressional Representative Matt Gaetz said yesterday at the Turning Point conservative conference. “Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.” …

On February 11, I was standing outside a high school in New Hampshire. I was holding my Elizabeth Warren sign (“Persist!”) and feeling miserably cold. The temperature was in the low forties with some cold fog. It was the day of the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary. I watched cars…

“If you can’t feed ’em, don’t breed ‘em.” That’s a bumper sticker you will see on a pick-up truck. And that pick-up truck will have a Confederate flag and a Gadsden flag streaming from its back carriage in a way that’s probably illegal but which will never be punished by…

“Here I am. Age ten. It’s 1993 and I’m about to start my first day of fifth grade.” If you’ve been on Facebook recently, you may have noticed women posting old photos of them at the age of ten. Older women post photos from the sixties and seventies. Younger women…

I’m thinking about becoming a Republican. Lemme explain why. Now I have been a Democrat through-and-through since I have registered to vote. And I’m going to keep voting for Democrats in general elections.

Charles Horton Cooley was an early 20th century sociologist who is most well-known for his phrase “looking-glass self.” “Looking-glass” is a rather old-fashioned term for a mirror, but the meaning of Cooley’s term is apparent. Cooley believed that human beings act and see themselves as they believe others see them…

Twenty years ago, I had a friend who saw colors for numbers. She said that she didn’t know why, but she saw colors that were immediately associated with numbers. Her condition was rare but nevertheless known to the medical world. It was called “grapheme-color synesthesia.” The word “synesthesia” means a…

Straight women are on strike. If you’re a straight liberal woman, you probably have had a lot of male allies in your mentions the last couple of weeks saying “Women need to go on a sex strike until ‘Roe’ is restored!” Here’s the thing though. Straight women have already been…