To me it’s is less in how inappropriate it is, and more the fact that she’s resigning while many, many men have held onto positions of power for doing far worse. I applaud her for doing the honorable thing, but also feel sad over the fact that Roy Moore got to stay on the ballot while being a pedophile. She also…

Ugggh. So her soon to be ex-husband choreographs a revenge porn campaign against her, and she resigns her position. Ugh. 

I’m aware, that was my point.

I’m fine with what the brother chose to do.  It’s his pain and he has the right to make this choice.  I have a big problem with the Judge doing the same thing. And like, everyone else involved.

The Jean family can grieve any way they choose, and if forgiveness helps any of them cope, I have no objection to it.

The judge going to comfort her, and the police officer later are another story. That was too far. After so much evidence was presented about he lack of care for the victims well being. How little she…

Get out of my mind...literally the first image that popped into my head when I saw the video clip. So creepy.

Christ on a crutch, has there ever been a better example of white woman tears than this?  The entire courtroom stops so that the white woman WHO MURDERED A MAN can be comforted?  FUCK.

Ugh. Nothing against the Jean family if this is how they need to process their grief, but I thought we’d already learned our lesson about using these types of images as simplistic propaganda.

There is a sizable portion of white America that sees this as the exact cure for racism. All our problems would be solved if black people would just forgive us for everything.

I think that even the idea of “meriting absolution” is honestly still kind of perverse, because it turns the whole thing into a transaction. “If I perform X services of contrition, you’re contractually obligated to forgive me and put it behind you” is a terrible message to send to people whose trauma may never fully…

Yeah, there’s a definite social function to this kind of performance. And while I can hardly say for certain, I think the goal is to absolve the institutions surrounding the woman.

So much this. I admit that I watched the forgiveness speech last night and was moved. My kids watched it as well, and I said “His brother is a better person than I am.” And then we went to bed.

Here’s the problem with forgiveness and why I loathe calls for it: victims are expected to forgive the perpetrators who, most of the time, have done nothing to merit absolution let alone ask for it. Plus there are some things, like murder, where “I’m sorry” isn’t going to cut it for some people, like myself!

And America’s obsession with watching traumatized black people take the higher road is borne of a culture that wants to abandon trauma, that seeks for a neat ending to the structural clusterfuck that forces black people to experience so much of it.

I don’t really have any patience for this right now. Every single candidate on the Dem side, including freaking Tulsi Gabbard, is an incalculable improvement over Trump, who’s not only the worst president in US history but one of the worst leaders of a country in, at least, modern history. We can get back to our usual …

When”fake news” means anything you don’t like, every truth is a fresh separate”attack”. Oh, the victimhood! 

Is he still married to the woman he complained about voting for Democrats...? If so, she must not have much self-respect.

Well, if anything, that means Susan Collins will give another empty speech, and then vote to confirm him.

I’m amazed at how quoting a person’s actual written or spoken words has somehow become “a personal attack.”

“Democrats are pulling a Kavanaugh against me." Does he mean Dems are holding him down and trying to get under his bathing suit or that Dems are angrily shouting “I like beer” at him?