Tired, I feel like I’m re-living your ordeal, and I would bet that MANY women here are too. I understand your fear and your choice to adopt a “burner.” I have too. Some privileged commenters use this against us, because they believe that their “ungrey” status elevates their opinion and confirms their own prejudices.…

In fact, being strong is one of the reasons women stay far too long before they recognize what they’re experiencing as abuse. You think you can’t be in an abusive relationship, because you’re too strong to have allowed that...so it has to be something else.

I understand that it’s hard to learn from criticism and you really did get piled on last night, but please try. Please?

Where in this article did I say anything about NO WHITE people caring about black people during slavery? Like your lame ass really came up in the grays to create a straw man argument. Please STFU.

We channel all our rage into ice sports. Hockey, figure skating, curling. You’ve never seen incandescent fury until you’ve seen a friendly gathering of portly, middle-aged, sweetheart-looking Canadians all shrieking, “SWEEP! SWEEEEEEEP!” at a TV.

Not only that, but has filmed countless scenes of ripening-with-promise young girls being totally and creepily involved in their fathers’ romantic lives with adult partners, and displaying it as a loving act between father and daughter.

We are talking about a man who has been OPEN about being into underage girls since...well, since at least Manhattan. I don’t get the confusion?

“We need a head of counterintelligence, someone ruthless, who will do whatever it takes, even murder, to preserve the status quo”

I’m a Black woman. The personal is political. I was on a dating site a few years ago and I had radical Black feminist under my avatar. This older white right winger started trying to talk to me and I asked uhhh why? Didn’t he see what I put as pretty much my tagline? He said yeah, but didn’t really talk or think about…

I have nothing interesting to discuss. Lady Bird the Basset Hound made a new friend at the park today.

Nothing to offer other than I’ve been there for elderly relatives at the end of life and while it’s exhausting, it’s also a privilege. But no question, it’s a significant task—you and your friends are to be highly commended for going to your dying friend, especially since it was such a great distance. How lucky your…

-I left the superbowl on for my Philly loving husband’s ashes. I figured it was less creepy than taking him with me in his cardboard box. I might be going insane.

I love that you let your husband’s ashes watch the superbowl. No you are not losing your mind (though grief mixed with prednisone must be a bitch). You are doing what you need to keep together during one of the hardest things anyone can ever do. Hugs from internet stranger.

Dating thoughts please! I haven’t slept with anyone for nearly five years. I’ve been on dates but it’s mostly ended up meeting with men who are full of themselves or the rare time it’s been with a dude I’ve liked, they’ve not followed through on a second date.

Vukmir opines that “our national obsession with the feelings of teenagers has played an enormous but heretofore unrecognized role in what is transpiring nationwide.”

I wonder if every day is opposite day for Vukmir, or only when she ruminates on people being murdered. Because her thinking is completely ass-backwards. I almost didn’t post this because I can’t believe that it actually needs to be said out loud.

At this point, it still feels like a mess we can get out of by voting in 2018 & 2020. I don’t want to break the system. In fact, some of the scariest things to me have been the extent to which Trump & Co have been breaking existing bipartisan norms. To my mind, breaking the system makes recovery from this disaster…

To all those who will scoff at actions like Pelosi’s, and accuse the Democrats in Congress of lacking the will to pursue progressive goals, this is what it’s like when you are the minority party in the House and Senate, and have a Republican (???) president and a conservative judiciary. You do what you can to win…

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.