I’m curious about your experience with that. I’ve never been pregnant, but most pregnant women I’ve spoken to said that it either didn’t affect how they saw fetuses, or that it made them feel that it WAS a human being in there.

Consensual rape?!?! WTF??? Where do you live?

Wow. I’ve been thinking about having a kid (I’m heading very quickly toward 40, so it’s feeling like it’s now or never), and part of the thinking is that I don’t want to miss out on this experience - both the having a kid part, but also the pregnancy part. All of your comments are making me wonder if maybe this is an…

Yes, I agree. I think there is also a normalization of women not having our boundaries respected. I realized after my last comment that while I’ve never been raped, I *have* had guys insist that I let them in to my apartment after a date, even when I clearly told them that I didn’t want to. “Oh, come on, I live so far…

Yes, this. I kind of understand people who think that a fetus is a human being, and therefore abortion is murder and should never be allowed, in any cases. I disagree, but I get that. If I honestly thought it was murder, I would be against it, too.

Wow, I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal with that. I’m commenting because I find this part interesting: “One of the things that I’ve identified is that I frequently close myself off to all forms of touch and affection because I fear that once I open even the smallest of doors, I will have no ability to stop anything I…

Yeah, that would no longer be a friend as far as I’m concerned. Sorry that happened to you.

Many of their followers, INCLUDING a lot of women!!! How is any woman with being treated as less than human??? I can’t even fathom that level of brainwashing and/or self-loathing.

Most of us didn’t. America has an abysmal voting rate for reasons I have never understood. But of the people who did vote, 3 million more voted for Clinton over Trump. But our system is fucked up, so Trump won. Please remember, over the next 4 years, as Trump gets crazier and crazier, and fucks up the world more and…

It’s horrifying and unbelievable... and yet, here we are living in it...

I thought you were serious for a second, and typed out this long, incredulous response. Don’t do that to me!

A friend of mine is making shirts with that line printed across the front.

I have been really liking what Pramila Jayapal has been doing and saying up in Washington. She may be a bit too inexperienced for 2020... but on the other hand, nobody is less experienced than Trump, so I’m thinking the “not experienced enough” argument is officially dead forever.

Money. Feinstein keeps getting re-elected in California, and she is WAY to right for most of us. Everyone is irate at her votes while she is in office, and then there’s a waterfall of money during the campaign, and magically she gets re-elected.

Yes, this is my fear, too. It’s only been two and a half weeks, and it has been relentless. I have been calling congress critters, writing letters, helping to organize community actions/protests/meetings... and I’m already fucking exhausted. TWO WEEKS. I can’t even let myself think about what can happen in 4 years.

THIS, exactly this. I have been on the phone to both of my Democratic Senators, begging them to stand and fight, even if they will lose. Because of COURSE they will lose, Democrats don’t have the numbers to stop shit.

First, I *love* Corinne as Baby Melania. That’s perfect! I’m only calling her that from now one.

OMG, yes. I’m so jealous of the kids with their makeup tutorials. I actually went to school with green eyeshadow that exactly matched my green sweater. More than once.

I have ALWAYS, in the back of my mind, imagined every person I’ve ever known reading anything I wrote... including notes I passed in school, and then later in life, letters, and after that emails. So I never wrote anything down that I wouldn’t be ok with everyone I know reading and sharing with everyone they know. I…

I was wondering that, too... but, like, how would that have happened? Before he comes in crying, the producers come in and say, “Everyone sit like a statue right where you are, nobody is allowed to move or say anything.”???