DISQUS

Yeah, Paul's positioning is way more assertive in the first pic (and John's more passive), but I really love how in the second pic, he's looking down pretending to be all bashful and modest as if anyone's actually going to buy that shit :)

Everything else aside, though, the problem is dragging a 16-year-old girl into this mess. I've got numerous issues here, but assuming this were true, it would be what's at the front of my mind.

"Feminism" is not, and never will be, only as good as any one individual feminist. Why on earth play into that ridiculous meme?

Fair enough, but I just wanted to make the point that I was being entirely facetious. My first inclination was to write "for the love of god." But I'm an atheist. So, what do I believe in? Well, feminism! And Clinton considers herself a feminist, right? Seems perfect. Really, I was just playing around a bit with words, though with 20-20 hindsight I can see how it might be taken the wrong way in this particular context.

It had nothing to do with thinking that Hillary Clinton is some kind of voice for feminism, because as I've made very clear in the past, I absolutely do not, and I agree that the whole idea of a feminist spokeswoman is silly at best and dangerous at worst. As for the whole "giving feminists a bad name thing," having had it thrown at me on numerous occasions (funnily enough, because I tend to hear it in cases when I'm most convinced I'm right), it's not something I buy into -- though I definitely cringe when I see feminists behaving badly under the guise of feminism (ftr, not what I think happened here).

Anyway, not sure where I'm going with this anymore, but seriously it was an off-the-cuff remark, designed to perhaps be very mildly amusing and to point out that I don't find these comments to be rather feminist. Not to say that Hillary is "ruining" feminism or whatever.

You have to have ID to vote in PA? Are you sure that's the law? I can't say that I do, but I was under the impression that states that required ID to vote had to have other provisions in place for those who don't have an ID -- like bringing along a bill proving residence. Just saying that if you haven't already, you might want to look into it.

No soul has the right to decide on the life of another being, born or unborn.

Agreed. No legislator does have the right to decide whether or not a woman will face a serious medical condition for 9 months that will affect many aspects of her life and behavior and leave her with a human being to care for at the end. Trying to have that kind of control over someone's life would be pretty fucked up . . .

Okay . . . my comment just got deleted when I tried to put it through. But the "fair tax" is not fair or progressive. It greatly benefits the rich. The rich don't spend all of their income; the poor do. That means that under a "fair tax," the poor are taxed on a much higher percentage of their income than anyone else. Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee also support this plan. Gravel may have other progressive ideas, but this isn't one of them.