myTakes: Society & Politics

So Alabama has passed a new law forcing those who have sexually assaulted a child under 13 to take pills to be chemically castrated. This applies to only those on parole though so if they are in jail they won't be...

I voted for Donald Trump, I voted for Donald Trump because I thought he'd create a better America for everyone but after reading 800 or so pages on Queer Feminist theory I realise how much I've been duped. You gotta...

Intro A lot of people still tell me that standards and the way society is today better off than it was in the past, as in decades back. While I do make the case that some things like medicine are better than they were in...

Rape: (noun) the wanton destruction or spoiling of a place; (verb) spoil or destroy. Oxford dictionary of English, second definition. Long term effects of THC exposure: “the drug may impair thinking, memory, and learning...

Introduction: If someone is calling for men to be more feminine it is considered an attack on masculinity and men. But if someone is calling on women to be more manly it is considered empowerment,so why is that? And is...

I think it is well known to a lot of folks (especially to those of you who are outside of the U.S.) here that GaG in general, works off a different set of rules than the rest of the world when it comes to defining terms,...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/447200-gop-chair-says-americans-should-be-celebrating-our-president-on GOP chairwoman says Americans 'should be celebrating our president' on D-Day anniversary “We are...

Now, this first image seems to say, "Yea, men are more likely to kill women than vice versa." But then... an interesting follow-up graph... Men make up a higher percentage of the victims they do of perpetrators by about...

Back in the good ol' days, discussing politics wasn't so...weird. It was always controversial, but never this weird. Gone are the days of political sentiments on sane issues(like marijuana legalization, abortion, capital...

As stated. I was doing to do a Mytake on my question. https://www.thedailymeal.com/entertain/modern-etiquette-questions-answers-gallery Should You Still Call a Woman ‘Ma’am’? and Other Modern Etiquette Questions...

Why I'm writing this take. Here's a little backstory that may explain the why behind my writing this take. I am the youngest of 8 kids. My mom was pregnant 12 times and had 4 miscarriages. After finding this out people...

I picked my major to be political science because fortunately I grew up in Bay Area, it was a very politically involved community that got me interested. The first reason is that because of actually Obama so the...

We always hear people say that it's the inside that counts. Although that may be true, but in this cold world we live in, we know that’s not really the case is it, not always at least. Looks matter with everything in this...

Today is the seventieth birthday of the German constitutional treaty (our “Grundgesetz”). Its very humanitarian nature based on the axiomatic inviolableness of human dignity is a wonderful thing to try obliterate the...

So I was up early and can't sleep.. When I come upon this.. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-americas-gun-fanatics-wont-tell-you-2016-06-14?fbclid=IwAR0XTIdIsX_pY9prztok3Is-ik2hAnCi_7zGwzEBfhGDUUpV8XO-SXw5ff8...