Argh, this made me teary-eyed. And I think that whole walking down the aisle giving the bride away is some patriarchal bullshit!

I am clearly allergic to this sentence because my eyes won’t stop leaking after reading it. What is this wetness all over my face? Dammit, Bobby.

Except in his version, she would meet the fiance though the recipient of her dad’s heart... as if her dead father had brought them together!

I normally hate the phrase “all the feels” but this story seriously fills me with all. the. feels.

She is the only character worth rooting for on this show.

I can’t believe he told her she should have drowned in the pool and no one is really talking about that. It’s abuse.

Shane Tusup is a former American swimmer

Yeah, I remember Michael Phelps’ coach getting all the credit for his medals. Oh, wait...

It might be equally unlikely that he would have been president without her. They support each other’s ambitions and like most couples, drive each other’s destinies.

Does this remind anyone else of the pictures of Bill Clinton that graced newspaper front pages under the headlines announcing the country’s first woman presidential nominee by a major party?

Men who throw/hit/kick things when they’re angry scare the shit out of me. All I can imagine is being alone in a room with someone like that, and how I would feel if they lost their temper.

Same reason a child can kick you, but if you kick back you are going to do more damage. I thought this was the reason men thought they are so superior to women. Somehow the physical differences get ignored when it comes to abuse and rape.

Haha, that seems familiar. I think it’s ok for all spaces to be inclusive but groups that are traditionally excluded need a space where they are explicitly welcome (even if everyone is implicitly welcome). It’s the all lives matter v. black lives matter nonsensical debate. Of course all lives matter but we don’t tend…

The issue with all the “it would be ok if men had their own space” or “oh those meanie feminists only like separation if it ‘benefits’ them” is that every space is already a de facto (white) male space, especially after dark.

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Women of color are feminists and share when this happens, and some WWFs (woke white friends) do, too. That’s the basis for #sayhername. In the popular media, it’s all blonde, straight, middle-class, christian, white girls. In feminist social media, like twitter, etc, we get more representation of all kinds of women.

Although she included women of color in her examples, I found it unrealistic that she made it through all these words - including talking about a “hierarchy” within even feminist media, yet didn’t mention race. Because the following is definitely NOT true for all:

I have trouble reading this objectively, because I am related to one of these women (not specifically in this story, but similar to them). Watching news coverage of my relative’s death, some of it national, made me feel incredibly conflicted. It felt dirty to watch the coverage, but at the same time I wanted her name…

I’ve liked the show since it began but I have to admit i was thinking it was going to be a funny but generally shallow spoof on Hollywood(woo?) and nothing more. Its depth is genuinely surprising. The fact that it can ping-pong back and forth between goofy, absurdist humor (seriously, i can’t get enough of the animal…

Princess Carolyn is a pink cat, not a purple one #FangirlNitpick