Sometimes I really find it hard not to think that in sexual assault cases if an accused decides to plead not guilty and take the case to trial, they should be required to testify. None of this “no case to answer” bullshit. Your lawyer gets to cross-examine the complainant? That’s cool, the prosecution get to…

Yeah, I know, a single-digit loss in a district R’s won by 20 points last year, blah blah blah. Anybody else depressed as fuck right now? We are stuck with Trump and his evil brethren for the foreseeable future, and if there’s anything worse than Trump, it’s Trump thinking he won something. That’s Trump at maximum…

I’ll tell you the reason.

They do not want to draw any extra attention to this case, because it hurts them. If you wish to sell people on the idea that everyone should have a gun for self defense this is the last thing you want to talk about.

Consider that a legal gun owner in a matter of 3 seconds after calmly…

Why aren’t the NRA folks rioting over this? A responsible gun owner did everything you’re supposed to do but was killed.

“I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it’s fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more,” she said. “So you point the fingers at the journalism, then?” reporter Ben Jacobs asked. “No, don’t put words in my mouth, Ben.”

Cool, but as someone who also has a long history of severely disordered eating this seems like it’s going to be a rull fun way for recovered/-ing anorexics to relapse. “To the Bone,” they couldn’t come up with a less melodramatic title?? Jesus.

People can do whatever they want to do, especially for their art, but this strikes me as so dangerous — akin to a heroin addict working with medical professionals to do heroin again after they’ve recovered, “for professional reasons”.

Watching this again I just gotta say: I am sick of representing those with extreme eating disorders with great skin and hair. Lily Collins has THICK lovely hair. You want to represent someone with an eating disorder without accidentally glamorizing it and falling into some pro-ana nonsense? Show the thin ass hair…

Yes, it’s one of the few legit reasons for saying designing for plus sizes is more complicated. Thin people hew pretty close to the skeletal anatomy, with a fairly uniform amount of body fat/padding. But fat people get fat in a myriad of different ways and shapes, and it’s not all evenly proportioned. I’m not sure…

I think it’s appropriate. Both Kim K and Ariana Grande darken their skin to look more like a POC for the perceived social benefits. This is akin to white minstrels who wanted to indulge in the culture of blacks with a wink and nod that they were not actually black. Or, quite simply, “Rather to reign in hell than serve…

Sure, but why not say, “We don’t know yet, we’re looking into it.” What they said sounds like a dismissal and that matters.

as a POC who grew up in NOVA the older I got the less safe I felt. I ultimately decided it was best for me to move. That welcoming community vibe I remembered now seems gone and replaced with sterile communities and overwhelming white people being unfriendly.  it came to the point where it felt like NOVA was not for…

Yeah, the mosque has a super super shady history, but that’s what it is; history, not the present. That a bigot who wanted to attack Muslims didn’t realize that is not the slightest bit surprising.

with no commercial breaks while offering literally nothing of any additional value.

Can we leave Barron alone? Like, the kid didn’t ask for this. Go after Don Jr. and the weird one and Ivanka all you want, they’re adults and ostensibly human. But Tiffany and Barron do not appear to have asked for any of this. We can just not.

If I were Ms. Berry I’d say, “Hell yeah I’m expecting...to take a giant dump tomorrow morning when I wake up.”

That s why complaining works people.

Its reminds me of old school stories of military hazing I heard from my father, if “I am going to be beaten and humiliated- the only way to regain dignity is for me to in turn beat and humiliate the next recruits” mindset.

This is not really matriarchal, but rather women being complicit in upholding patriarchal structures because they, too, had to obey the same oppressive “rules”, and very often also because they fear their daughters/granddaughters will suffer if they do not fit in.

Participating in a patriarchal system for meager benefit is not matriarchy, it’s complicity.