You’re strumming my pain but it just helps me know that they preoccupy us with stupid history about Washington cutting down cherry trees and memorizing dates so we won’t put all this together (and neither will their kids) and acknowledge just how cruel, inhuman, devious and insidious the whole founding, building and…

Setting aside all the obvious erasure everyone else is covering, I want to address the “pristine nature” bit. When the first colonists arrived, they found vast forests of old-growth trees. Wide spacing, little brush, just the ideal forest. But this was not “nature.” This environment was artificially managed by the…

This needs more attention. The original settlers owed their lives to Native Americans - literally. The settlers were in every way imaginable unfit to survive on their own. I avoid November 25 as that time those people invited their new neighbors to dinner, then murdered them and stole their land. Shakespeare couldn’t…

I can’t read a Santorum Tweet without a #frothy hashtag comment.

Indigenous peoples contributions to white colonizers? How about FOOD muthafkr? What crops you think came over on the Mayflower? They showed up with dry biscuits, moldy cheese, some beer and a few chickens. They didn’t know how to fish, and their farming skills were suited to English crops and climate. They learned…

I will be forever grateful to Dan Savage and his fans for creating that definition.

There’s nothing quite like skin that is simultaneously peeling off because it’s so dry, and breaking out because like three pores are just doing all the oil production for the whole thing.

I have dry sensitive and acne prone skin which is just a spectacular combination to have. I also live in a very dry climate which means no hyaluronic acid, so stuff like this would be a no-go.

White male reporter biases are exactly why we got all those economic anxiety stories in 2016. Their biases went unexamined and unchallenged in newsrooms. So, we got another string of humanizing stories on QAnon supporters and the insurrectionists in the last year. Editors never questioned articles from white male…

You either are a white people, or you’ve never met white people.

Yes, BurningInMyNetherParts. That is the point. They aren’t screening. Not that they should be screening. They should not. But, if they are relying entirely on volunteered information, it is going to be skewed because some victims talk openly about surviving sexual assault and (essentially) no rapists talk openly in…

The point is that if they don’t take care to ensure that reporters who sexually assault people are writing about sexual assault, then they shouldn’t prevent reporters who have been sexually assaulted from covering sexual assault - if the stated goal is to be objective. Its one sided, therefore biased. The point was not…

As I wrote to WaPo shortly after reading about their decision not to permit this reporter to write about sexual assault, “do you screen your reporters for whether they have committed sexual assault before you decide whether they can report on it?” We all know the answer is no.

oh it was sooooo jarring. Whedon loves a boob trampoline for goofy male characters. See Black Widow and Bruce Banner. Flash landing on Diana. I read somewhere Gal Gadot refused to film the scene so they got in body double who ALSO felt uncomfortable.

Hell, not only that. Look at what he did with Wonder Woman and her scenes.

For me it’s really difficult to genuinely look at the changes Whedon made to the Justice League movie and not find Fisher’s allegations credible based just on that. Almost every single one of them somehow managed to either be demeaning to or remove agency from POC and female characters. It is honestly an astonishing…

White cis men have always benefited from the assumption of their inherent objectivity, largely because they were the ones who got to decide what it meant to be objective in the first place.

This. He wasn't stupid. He just didn't care. That's what happens when you go through life never being held accountable for your actions..

I think that some of that just stems from their sense of entitlement. When you live a consequence free life you don’t developp any skills in risk management.

I have no doubt that this is retribution from Rep. Cheney. Remember, not only did Gaetz call her out for voting against Trump he went to Wyoming to campaign with her primary challenger immediately afterwards. A lot of what has come out was common knowledge amongst Republicans in Congress... all it would take was to…