Exactly this. It’s also really terrifying and isolating to live through. I lost friends and am surprised that I didn’t lose my job. My marriage was fractured and there were times I thought about killing myself and/or my child. It’s been several years and I’m still recovering. Being locked in a battle with your self is…

You clearly haven’t tried lefse or lingonberries.

As a wife and mother, I think it’s bullshit too. Neither of those things makes me any better than anyone who can’t claim them. EVERY woman who is complicit in this administration deserves to be humiliated and insulted, period, because that’s what they are doing to plenty of women who don’t have the power that they do,…

The middle to upper class common people are more stuck than we’d like to think. Political strife can make a refugee out of anyone.

Same. I was lucky enough to never be raped, but have so much other trauma that it was a revelation to read his words because I could recognize so much of it.

The filing deadline in Oklahoma is April 13th. This information has been circulated massively in response to the condescending things that Republicans of both sexes have said about the majority-female teacher’s strike. I would expect there to be even more women running by the end of the filing period.

Thank you for reporting on one of the victims, and on him in particular. So much media coverage is devoted to the person who perpetrates such a crime, but I think it would be better for us all to concentrate on the victims. Then, we hear the story of how they tried to fight back even though they could have been…

I was abused because of that’s how my father was raised and that was all he knew. And I don’t mean being beaten with a belt, but beaten with fists, dragged by my hair, emotional abuse, and neglect, etc. Even there, I would say that that came from his upbringing - that was the parenting he had received, so that’s what…

I never said it could or should. Only that it can act as a backup while better options are offline.

Yep. The Ugly Times in Oklahoma are just called Winter.

They remind me of a story a friend told me about knitting her first sweater and not realizing that the size of the sleeves should decrease closer to the wrist.

I meant to say a non-digital backup. We used to be able to function with paper; there should be a way to do it again in emergencies.

There also needs to be some kind of “Plan B” for when computer systems fail. Because they will fail sometimes, hackers or not.

The idea that we should eat until we’re “full” is pretty problematic too. Why do we need to be full? Isn’t it enough to be satisfied - to not be hungry anymore?

I see this kind of attitude here in Oklahoma, too, and I attribute it to the very fucked up history of these places. I don’t know the history of Appalachia well but what I do know is all about corporate greed and oppression. People fought back against it and in return they got economic destruction that continues to…

Yeah, that was a record scratch statement for sure.

Isn’t “Peace through strength” straight out of the book 1984?

Going where the workers are seems so obvious. You can tell who is janitorial usually by when they go into the building; the people going in after 5 pm are usually not the ones working at a desk.

But there’s also the issue that most janitorial positions now are “independent contractor” positions, which is the most…

I’ve known several women who have gotten pregnant repeatedly in spite of being on multiple forms of birth control, or who’ve had seriously bad reactions to all of the most reliable forms of birth control. If they had two option left, rather than just condoms, I bet they would be delighted.

Thank you for explaining that.