Oh, honey, bless your heart.

And I’m saying that “you have to want it bad enough” is a sentiment that disregards so many other factors that it’s essentially a cudgel that can be used to beat down anyone that can’t live up to it.

There’s a stark difference between sugarcoating something and what you’re doing, which is insisting that since you did it, anyone can, and if they can’t, it’s because they didn’t try hard enough or didn’t want it bad enough. What you’re saying is indistinguishable from the “black people could have better lives if…

Well, when you’re applying your own life experiences to the lives of hypothetical strangers and using it as a way to judge people for not living the way you have... yeah, it’s kind of hard to interpret your words as anything other than bootstrapping nonsense. You seem to not realize that all the strength in the…

Oh, WOW. No. It has nothing to do with strength, or wanting it bad enough, or anything else. This is an argument I expect to hear from my racist, classist white relatives about anyone who can’t afford to live the way they do, not from a commenter at The Root.

Good for you, but again, not everyone can succeed without a support system, even if they do their damnedest. The more we collectively look down on people who aren’t able to succeed in a system set up to prevent their success, the harder we make it on everyone. But that’s just me trying my damnedest not to shit on…

I’ve known women who had to drop out of college when they had a kid, because they had no support system to lean on at all. No parents to help out, no partner, no nothing. I have nothing but respect and admiration for anyone who gets through college under less than ideal circumstances (and I say that as a current…

I’m baffled as to why the immediate response is not “here is how to contact your elected officials to encourage them to engage in the next step in this fight”, because this shit actually is not over yet, but... instead, you’re advocating rolling over and taking it. I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, even USA Today did a…

But more white women voted for Trump than Clinton. Black women did all the work there, too. Time to climb out of your hurt feelings and accept reality.

Amazing that they consistently vote for candidates who run on platforms of making life harder for babies born into poverty and keeping those babies permanently in the underclass... oh, right. Right-wingers only care about babies in the abstract, never in reality.

Of course I can’t find it now, but I swear I remember a few years ago reading an article written by a woman who had worked as Smiley’s assistant, detailing how he talked her into starting a sexual relationship with him and the abuse she had to endure both as a colleague and as a sexual partner. Trying to find the…

I mean... every company I’ve ever worked for had a clause in their employee handbook explaining that yes, they can fire your ass for doing shitty things in your private time if your identity can in any way be linked back to the company and create a public relations issue that the company has to solve. You might want…

You have to be really fucking bad to fail at becoming a police officer. I have a relative who wanted to be a cop so bad that he ended up applying with more than three PD’s before he found one willing to take him.

But how would that happen without anyone around that isn’t a sycophantic shitbag? I mean... let’s be real, this kid doesn’t have a shot in hell of being any different than his half-siblings. He’ll probably be worse.

So you’re trying to say that if a man really does want to date a woman, and after a couple of months of flirting she’s like “so what are we doing here?”... that dude’s NOT gonna speak up and let her know he’s interested in her? That’s the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard.

I mean... you understand that women often get raped when they try to say no to sex in situations just like the one in the story, right? Like... not saying no to sex because they’re afraid of the consequences of that action is not at all why men get away with sexually harassing and assaulting women (or men with less…

Yup.

I feel like humping a Confederate flag and teaching your kid that it’s acceptable to call other kids by a racial slur is kind of a bigger deal, but... I’m not at all surprised that you apparently support those things. I’d expect nothing less from trash like you.

Oh, sweetie. You’re so fucking stupid it hurts to read your comments.

Some people don’t want to look at a close-up photo of two open mouths touching.