This essay should be FAR more widely read:
Until a person who has committed an offense has actually acknowledged what they’ve done, apologized, and made every effort to make amends, I refuse to accept them as a fellow human. I don’t care if it’s cutting me off in traffic or murder.
re: this quote:
It’s going to be batshit and they aren’t even trying to hide it. I AM THERE WITH MOTHERFUCKING BELLS ON.
Back when this happened I ended up in ONE OF THE MOST AWKWARD AND GROSS CONVERSATIONS EVER with someone who was cautiously taking the stance that fingering “isn’t as bad as real rape”, by which of course they meant penis-in-vagina/anus. We slowly parsed this out, and I eventually got them to acknowledge that if a…
No, Meghan doesn’t have to do anything regarding her family to make you or anyone else feel better.
Then there’s this gloriousness (from apparently 2 years ago, is anyone surprised this guy has a history of misogyny?):
Seriously. This is all damning with the faintest and most ignorant, cushiest, most spoiled praise. Why the fuck do I give a shit what cis people think about this? The hypocrisy of them chastising an oppressed community for its “groupthink” is so palpable I can practically wring its sorry, goddamned neck from over here.
Terry Crews is my everything.
Ok I’m not trying to go all conspiracy theorist here but anyone else thinking this was another trial balloon?
Nah, fuck tone policing.
People’s first response to this is to complain about your method of reaching out? FUCK THAT. FUCK JESSE SINGAL. FUCK THE ATLANTIC. This is a boy on a transphobic mission who was allowed to publish that tripe during Pride month.
Oh, I’m digging that octopus print!
I never understood why people liked or disliked Kristen Stewart — she just looked like a normcore grump, but that’s no reason to dislike her — but then I fell in love with her after her SNL Totinos sketch, and now I am constantly rooting for her:
I just can’t believe that Trump repaid a debt to someone!
I have extremely thick dark hair on my head, and some dark hair on my arms and legs, and scattered very thick dark hairs under my chin. I used to freak about those chin hairs - I would tweeze daily, with a magnifying mirror and a bright light, relentlessly pulling at any sign of growth. I really, really didn’t want…
I feel ya :) I just wanted to clear up what I was saying in case I made it more confusing than it needs to be. The exclamation point does make it an exaggerated response, but in a form of communication where inflection, body language, and other factors are absent, exaggeration is needed sometimes.