I was six when a nine year old boy who was much larger than me held me down for a kiss. Well, I’d been in ballet for four years at that point and I kicked him so hard in the groin (he had me bent over a swing) that he ran off and I never saw him again. I blamed me, because I kissed him first, a few days earlier. My…

I really want to say that I remember Southern Comfort being devastatingly good. I hope I get the chance to see this. I wake up a lot of mornings thinking about Sandra Bland. It is such a tragedy on so many levels; emotionally for me, it sits near the shelf I keep 9/11. Say Her Name.

I also think kids tend to self-attribute terrible things to their own actions. Parents often inadvertently enable this tendency because they don’t want to traumatize their children by letting them know that random, terrible things sometimes happen for no reason.

When I was 8, my parents took me to a shoe store and sat me down in the kids in front of the TV while they went to find shoes for themselves. A man started inching towards me from the corner by the TV and I realized he was exposing himself. I got scared and went to find my mom, but was too scared to tell her what was…

My daughter is eleven. Right now she’s at a phase in her life where her friend group is equally boys and girls and she cherishes them all. There are hints of little crushes here and there, but mostly, they’re still kids.

A bunch of articles refer to Lauer as “NBC’s biggest star,” but... really? Why did they think that? He’s a dope and not even good looking (this is TV we’re talking about), why the hell was he worth putting up with his behavior at the expense of so many women?

I love NBC’s defense here.

Cripes, this guy. Musta lost that latest job excavating dead raccoon carcasses from basements.

Woody Allen and Roman Polanski are scum, no doubt. But Cosby was a serial rapist. So, yes, his conviction is kind of a big deal.

I’d bet a lot that that strategy actually helped sink this fucker.

....Witch hunts. Lynchings. McCarthyism. 

You took the word out of my mouth.

Things nobody said

No.

So much this.

Power. He wanted to dominate and humiliate them.