Sorry but I just need to vent. If I see one more news story on this where they neglect to mention that this attack was directed at a Gay Nightclub, I might scream. So many news shows are clearly avoiding the fact that it was directed at the LGTQI community and is a hate crime. They keep saying “Nightclub” and that’s…

You can police every aspect of your speech, you can wear the right things, you can get all the degrees and expertise, you can write the most fucking eloquent and heartbreaking courtroom statement and still there are men who will not hear you because they just don’t listen to women.

Or how do we help women in the 26-35 age range who would like to have children but are questioning whether they will ever have enough financial stability (because we don’t have great paid maternity leave and it’s impossible to afford anything bigger than a one bedroom/studio in most of our major cities even with a…

Here’s my only thing. And bear in mind that I say this as someone who is deeply liberal, pro-choice, anti-xenophobia, etc.

Well, I certainly don’t approve of what they did but you know, Republicans are always saying they want immigrants to really embrace the American way of life.

It seems like throwing it out is an essential part of the artistic work, no?

I suspect it’s because it’s a program for adults with intellectual disabilities and it was viewed as a way to sell it to business because of a fear they wouldn’t be good workers.

I thought I replied to this but I don’t see it here. Yes, totally! I also get along well with autistic adults, usually. I really feel that these people, from “quirky end of normal” to “definitely autistic,” are my tribe, and I wouldn’t change them for the world - although sometimes I wish the world were easier on them.

Yep! Of course, I also get along really well with autistic adults, and I think some of it is just that spectrum quirkiness, even among those of us who aren’t over the border into official autism.

So it’s okay for me to have a pistol and not an assault rifle? Is that what you’re getting at with the car analogy?

Overly simplistic. Guns obviously play a major role, especially in regards to how many people can be killed in a short time. But the idea that toxic masculinity, bullying, mental health, and misogyny do not play vital and critical roles in these tragic events exposes a bias and agenda that time and time again have…

I still fucking love thar record. It was already 10 years old when I listened to it in high school — perfect soundtrack for my moody, boycrazy, sunshine-evasive teen girl self at that time.

I was like 13 when Garbage came out. I’ve gone on to listen to other things but it was so good that there was a singer like Shirley who projected such strength with her voice and was not playing dumb. And “Supervixen” is so sexy! She was not submitting to anyone, she was saying “Bow Down to Me!”

Garbage’s self-titled debut came out 20 years ago—wanna feel old??

That always sits weird with me. You’re “pro life” for a group of cells in someone else’s body that doesn’t involve you, but also pro-death penalty?

This is just a rehash of the DEA’s 60’s and 70’s fear mongering; it was BS then and now.

These earrings look great though.

That’s crazy ridiculous!