Not directed at you GELLA, but it is funny (to me) how it is always described as one or the other. I find that I can cycle between the two poles multiple times in one day, at times! But usually it is more lengthy than that.

“present Grace’s story for what it is—a starting point to discuss the ways consent can feel blurring, no matter how clear we might wish it were, and our lack of language to describe this”

This is a valuable conversation and could have occurred in a better written piece. I also think a discussion about the blurred…

Joke’s on him (and all of us). The US is a shithole country to the rest of the world now.

Trump then said he would sign literally whatever passes Congress: “If they come to me with things I’m not in love with, I’m going to do it,” he said.

20 years of non-stop, right-wing, Fox news propaganda has damaged a lot of people’s perception of the world.

“Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense...”

Yes, absolutely. This story is as good a time capsule as we’re likely to get. I think it’s crucial to remember the climate of paternalism and restrictions that we’ve escaped, and how quickly we’ve done so. So many, many places *even here in America* still believe that women are subservient to men. That our only roles…

First thing I thought of was this article from this site from last year:

That’s what it boils down to. I see this so much when the topic of racism is broached. Someone does or says something bigoted, gets called out and somehow the discussion veers into their comfort, as if it’s a child being addressed. I’ve seen situations where the person even starts to literally cry. It always comes…

Well actually, we got our reckoning in part thanks to you. It was after all the US and the Allies that decided how to rebuild Germany after WW2 and how to reeducate us and confront us with the horrors we were complicit with. It’s easy taking pride in how germany deals with its Nazi past, except that a: we didnt manage…

You know what sucks? Besides the obvious. That even if trump gets kicked out of office and publicly ruined, all this shit has been put out there and exposed for the world to see. If the world was a neighborhood, we’re the family whose dad went outside jerked himself off and then took a huge dump on his next door…

Honestly that might make me like that song more. I can appreciate examinations of touchy topics.

I would add that there is absolutely no attempt to grapple with the actual, functional policies that are messing these people’s lives up. You would think that given how celebrated articles like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article on redlining or reparations was, you might see attempts to imitate it rather than simply dutifully…

Naw...if your first instinct is to go after the victims, and only apologize after you’ve been forced to see the error of your ways...
That’s not a mistake, that’s the goddamn issue of why women have been oppressed into silence.

I think she was trying to be helpful, then realized how dumb she was being and apologized.

The Buddha himself said this in the Kalama Sutta:

I really don’t understand the preoccupation with this bag of skin.Sure Breitbart is a go to for the mouthbreathers in this country, but filth always seeks its own level. He’s no intellectual; no visionary. He’s a failed Hollywood wannabe and, like a jellyfish, he mindlessly lashes out at anything that comes within his…

This is not a super useful suggestion, but I’ve finally despaired at getting sweaters that fit my boobs and have taken to sewing them myself. Joanns sells quite good sweater knits and there are many simple cardigan patterns that are easy to make. I’m wearing my newest Cocoon Cardigan from Patterns 4 Pirates and it is…

He’s a golem made of mayonnaise.

I just scrolled down to suggest that, in the age of Trump, we really have no need for further psychological warfare. We could, however, use some examples of people overcoming difficulty through calm, sane consideration; uncovering the etiologies of our deeply-rooted cultural pathologies; and overcoming implicit…