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.

One woman, who testified in front of Congress about #MeToo in the federal judiciary, told Woodward during the Q&A that it was frustrating that he kept interrupting Kantor and Twohey. She’s awesome.

I’m so glad she said this, and she’s dead right about it. Every single lawmaker should be called on the carpet like this, every day. They shouldn’t be able to show their faces in public anywhere without being demanded to do their jobs. I’m not sure shame has any power anymore, but it’s worth trying.

The idea that people like this are even being interviewed and having their views be taken seriously is so fucking frustrating.  Can we PLEASE stop giving airtime to these morons?  If the main reason that this country goes down in flames is because perfectly fine woman candidates are seen as bitches by the electorate,…

No disrespect to Erivo, but Octavia Spencer remains the Tubman of my heart. 

No one wants to be unpaid labor on an unsuccessful organic farm. 

Was thinking more of this, but in water, which would be worse.

I’m not one to defend a lot of these people with the easiest jobs in the world (considering the pay), but at some point it’s just not practical or safe for them to fly commercially.

It seems to me that common sense dictates Prince Harry and family requires private travel for safety...

lol did you pitch this for Breitbart first?

“... may have flown too close to the sun.”

Is it bad that I really want to buy this, gift it to the Jez staff so y'all can do some awesome destruction performance piece? Crowbars, bats, flamethrowers, and some righteous anger.

Such poetic musings about a fucking predator. As far as I know Icarus was not a sexual deviant in search of prey.

Perhaps said pilots are worried about their own legal status, being accessories to the crimes?

“perversely tragic figure” who became “lost in his own fable. Wandering the skies in his private jet, enamored of his own mind and image, he forgot that he was merely mortal and may have flown too close to the sun.”

Well to be fair, there wasn’t a black man involved. 

Just about everybody, unfortunately.

Just a little bit longer 21

Sending thoughts and prayers./ s

I feel like the underrepresentation of women in sexual abuse statistics is, itself, a manifestation of sexism. Women can’t be perceived as sexual abusers in a patriarchal system because sex with them is seen as a commodity to be obtained—if you’re male and you don’t want sex with a woman, that’s seen as a defect to be…