drsmartypants
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God, I wish enough people actually cared about voting enough to make all of these pro-tips put into such heavy use that it overwhelms elections officials and calls attention to the travesty that is voter suppression. But I also feel like if people actually cared that much about voting, we wouldn’t have 90% of these

She did stand up for herself, and she did criticize him. You’re just not happy with how she did it, and are slamming her for it, rather than focusing on how crappy he was for doing it. This is what women deal with all the time. It’s the “but you didn’t fight back, so you deserve what you get” response.

It’s so fucking

Hey remember that time James Franco was caught perving on children (I’m sorry... teens, is that more comfortable for people?) on the internet?

We give so few fucks about women in this country, especially when it comes to protecting the careers of rich and powerful white men.

Oooooooooooooooh now i’ve gone down a faux fur throw rabbit hole.

It’s extremely disappointing that the go-to response especially from progressive men has been to criticize her response, rather than solely focus on criticizing him for what he did. It’s just demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the world that women actually live in, especially in the Midwest. ESPECIALLY

She did call him out. The cutthroat comment was responding to the comment that started this whole thread, saying that said her calling out was not sufficient and the demand was to “break your foot off in his ass.” Context!

Pretty much.

She was taking the freaking high road. It’s Minnesota, and I don’t know how well you know Minnesota, but I have family there, and in Minnesota cutthroat doesn’t play very well, especially from women, even amongst Democrats. If taking the high road is true to herself, then it’s much better that she sticks to that. And

Hey, here’s one way people can stick it to that guy. Donate to Mahlberg’s campaign.

You mean negatively impact a GOP candidate? Especially a male GOP candidate?

Because if she did this, the GOP would bury her alive.

There was no right way for her to respond, either. She would either have been called too forceful, or not forceful enough. Probably both! Just look at the comment section here.

I saw her in several community theater productions years ago (support your local community theaters, y’all! they work hard and it’s often great!), and I was so super excited to see her on The Good Place! It’s one of my favorite shows, and she’s a big part of that. Yay!

When I feel this way, I think about:

She is grossly misrepresenting the concept of “presumption of innocence,” but then the GOP does that all the time, as long as we’re talking about rich, powerful white men.

We knew it was going to be a sham as soon as they agreed to it. It was never going to be anything more than that. 

Except it wasn’t tested under Obama. Obama signed the system into law, but this is the first ever test. There was a whole lawsuit about it. The concern via the lawsuit is the Trump administration’s potential to use it as a propaganda tool, because the wording of the law barring such things is too vague.

Under this new policy, if a diplomat wants to bring their partner to the US from a country where marriage equality isn’t a thing, they have to both come on a tourist visa first, get married, and then go back to their home country and undergo a waiting period before applying for a spousal diplomatic visa. That is

It’s true that survivors have to be willing to report for there to be any hope of accountability (even though that hope is slim). But so many things could be done here to either corroborate Ford’s testimony or help exonerate Kavanaugh, and none of that was done. No FBI investigation, no process of interviewing other

This.

Because the most fanatical voters are all in for Trump, and they’re terrified of that small section of voters, because average people who clearly don’t like what’s going on don’t seem to give a shit about voting (prove me wrong in November, everyone! please! show us you give a shit now! i would HAPPILY be wrong about