Okay, so this is a bit of a long one. We’ll call this Get Me A Fucking Roll, Damnit! Oh, and trigger-warning, this has an abusive under-current. Just so you all know.

And the kids who are victimized for sex abuse videos are overwhelmingly victimized by family members, not strangers.

Our culture actively discourages men away from processing their own shit. More than that, it actively encourages them to do so, and while their partners end up taking the brunt of that bullshit, others around them do too. The concept of Impact > Intention is absolutely foreign in toxic masculinity and among a lot of…

If she’s in the guest room, she has already left and it’s probably only economic necessity keeping her there.

“We’re a family” is always a coercive tactic...

I don’t know any of the people involved, but my guess is these women might rest easier in peace if we all got a little more outraged at a system that allows this person get a four-month prison sentence (“rough” or otherwise) and now have to cope with some sadness.

To each his own.  I want to make stories like this not…

He’s abusive.  Full stop.  I do believe he is probably mentally ill but, like you said, it’s not an excuse or an explanation.

I have PTSD, OCD, and a mood disorder.  I have never hit another human in anger.  I have never threatened a partner with bodily harm or used suicide as a weapon.   To anyone who needs to hear…

I’ve listened to clips of Carl. The dude gives off real dumb-guy energy. Modern Christianity is just prosperity gospel, mixed with MLMs, and a sprinkling of “The Secret”-style self help. Traditional Christianity sucks, too. But damn, the modern shit is theologically vapid. There’s some interesting theories about why…

All these “modern” churches are just evangelicals wearing tank tops and low cut shorts to show off their cum gutters. I wish these people would admit they are just star fuckers because who else would join such a lame shitshow? Christian music bullshit that only makes rock and religion worse.

I’m SHOCKED, absolutely shocked that an organization with deep roots in misogyny and close ties to current white supremacist ideals would be...misogynistic and racist. Shocked, I tell you! Shocked!

They voluntarily went to an event that was purposely not following guidelines.  They have no right to be angry, but we have every right to call them FUCKING STUPID. 

The guy instantly had one of the most recognized pieces of real estate in Peoria, and he paints over it. He had a funny story to tell along with the mural itself, and he...painted...over...it. Yes, this guy is a total Grinch, what a putz.

I’d really love to hear of managers/restaurant owners kicking out customers who behaved this way. This is the opposite of David Sedaris’s “Citizen firing”. Service employees should be allowed to fire customers who violate their civil rights.

Thanks for reporting on this, it is very important.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

On top of a pile of money and privilege, secure in the knowledge that consequences are for the little people.

It just seems utterly bizarre to me to die on this particular hill. Even if they stopped assigning Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter, it’s not as if people will stop reading it. And even if they did, who cares? There is a strange sentimental value society places on these specific books rather than embracing the…

The latter, with a side of “maybe the limited number of books we have time to assign in HS should include more books that encourage a love of reading and understanding of diverse lives, rather than just Moby Dick again”. That’s my understanding, anyway.

My daughter’s AP English teacher apparently hates books by old white dudes that are traditionally taught in British Lit. So they’re reading a great variety of mostly modern British lit by a wide variety of diverse authors and my kid (who is not a kid who enjoys reading) is actually enjoying herself. The same couldn’t…

They’re doing this for the same reason that some of the same people advanced the Birther conspiracy against Obama. No one aside from the truly crazed believed that Obama would be forced from office; they did it just to delegitimize his administration, as a pretense for blocking his legislative agenda and branding…