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Beatrice Hawthorne is walking away from Omelas
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My parents had “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.” I snatched it and hid it under my mattress. (Of course, now that I make my own beds, I know that is a terrible place to hide anything from your mother....) What a load of terrible, terrible advice. And just plain wrong about so many

You are a responsible dog owner! I never understand people who let their aggressive dogs loose around other dogs. My little 12 pound chi mix is a complete asshole and she never gets to go off leash and I will scoop her up if any other dog is in sight. Not to protect HER - to protect them! She has gone after

I agree! I read the interview thinking, this explains so much of my life experience....

I have always detested Quarantino films. Hyper violence is not a turn on to me, and he obviously fetishizes it. Especially towards women.

I am personally attending to my emotional support influenza virus as we speak.

I was pretty sure she was talking from her own previous experience. As was I. I was agreeing with her (hence the “and”), and adding my own thoughts to the discussion.

And also, if forgiveness is going to be given, it is for those who have been wronged to decide to give, not for some onlooker.

Huh. When I was in the Sistine Chapel, there were male guards yelling at the tourists constantly: “No talking!” “No sitting!” Wouldn’t women have to sit to breastfeed? At least they could do so quietly, although all of the “No talking!” yelling gets kinda loud and might be distracting for the baby.

I have come from the future to tell you this was a joke*. Also that Trump will be elected president, which is not a joke and will eventually spark angry mobs of women who wear pink hats and black dresses and refuse to be ogled and touched inappropriately in the workplace any longer. Men will be puzzled by the whole

Trolls gonna troll

My entire body is literally made up of chemicals. I feel so unclean.

Agreed. Smoke the turkey or GTFO

“I met my soulmate when he invited me to his house to do work and he made me look at his dick.” Said no woman ever.

Needs more stars.

Thank you, Hamlet! I did find a more awesome family - my own! I moved closer to them after the divorce, and I am positively giddy to spend the holidays with them.

You are right of course. But I, personally, have never been harassed by my gay friends (male or female). So they feel safer to me than straight, cis-gendered males.

And this is why I love my gay friends.

I hope so. I hope they can’t sleep and their stomachs hurt and they are beating themselves up. I hope.

My ex-brother-in-law used to grope me all the time. In front of everyone, including my (now ex) husband. It was all a big joke to them. And of course I had to go along to get along. I am so glad I never have to see him, or any of that family, ever again.