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Healing and Unity can only come after accepting of responsibility and making amends. You don’t get forgiveness for just saying “oops, my bad, but not really”. It’s the “I’m sorry you felt that way” of phrases.  I say Fuck you to each and every one of them. I hope that insane mob of people follow them for the rest of…

24. If I was stranded alone on an island, I would bring a tweezer, a magnifying mirror and some espresso.

I think one of the things I wish I’d known more fully when I got married at age 26 (!!!) was that this shit is HARD. And that love really changes over long amounts of time. And that the person you married fundamentally STAYS the same person, even 30 years later.

So, so , so many. If you work in CPS the amount of abuse at the hands of family members ( including step parents/boyfriends/girlfriends) is just stunning. The other thing that shocked me is when I would file the cases as being appropriately documented, it meant that there was actual evidence. Like rise to the…

I worked as the coordinator for a state’s central registry of child abuse and neglect for about 5 years. The stranger abuse narrative is so, so rare. Sure, it occasionally happens and, in my experience, was frequently facilitated by a parent. The VAST VAST amount of child abuse ( sexual and otherwise) is done within…

I am no marriage expert, outside of the fact that I have stayed married to the same man for 25 years ( partnered for 3o)....but I will say this. People have to affirmatively choose to be together. I do not mean that every year is sunshine and roses because, I’ll be honest, I really did not like Balefulspouse for about…

We call them Physicians. I remind snippy male physicians that I am a doctor. They are physicians. I’ve done research. They’ve completed a professional training.  (note: Some M.D.’s have PhD’s as well)

I had a custodian at work, whom we renamed Crazy Custodian, stalk and harass me for four years before HR did anything about it. He was all about “Killary” and talking about his guns. I told HR that when he finally shot me in my office ( because he had fucking keys to my office), I’d instructed my spouse to sue the…

Um, try EVERY academic department.

Indeed. Irritated older Auntie is exactly the tone. I can feel the eyebrow arched in my direction.

As a former resident of New Hampshire I can confirm that Corey Lewandowski is a piece of shit whom all of New Hampshire hates. ALL of New Hampshire, including the republicans.

Let Trump do it. Invalidate all the votes and then all the other Republicans on those down ticket races also lose. I find it absolutely laughable that the same fools crowing about the election being stolen are the ones who could lose their own elections....

They also live in fear of some 3am intrusion that, although it’s never happened to them or anyone they know, could happen, which justifies a billion dollar pseudo-military police force.

Her statement is empirically  untrue.

I worked in a State CPS adjacent position for 5 years. We had one person who had two babies die in very suspicious circumstances at about the same age and in about the same way. Nothing criminally provable but very, very worrisome and rising to the level of provable for child abuse and neglect statute. She went on to…

So she’s back on the drugs?

I am mystified how any one can summon erotic feelings during work meetings. I am barely repressing my desire to fall off my chair and yeet myself out of my window.

Exactly. As I have told men-friends “I’ve seen a lot of cock and balls in my life, of all sizes, races and religions. That all look pretty much the same, which is honestly kind of goofy. I assure you that it isn’t the cock - it’s the person attached to said cock and balls”

As a woman with a PhD - Senator Harris’ faces were giving me life. Every woman in a faculty meeting has been talked over, around and through. We have been subjected to men ( who are not in our disciplines) explaining our fucking discipline to us. She was perfect.