agree with most, but still, counterpoint: Nelsan Ellis (R.I.P)

well, damn. thanks for that [unsurprisingly depressing and informative] bit of info. I was not thrilled to read that she’d be in a Tyler Perry film, but fuck it, if that’s how you get paid to do work at all...

ugh, seriously - to both Mr. Rogers [never!] + the surprise at this & my feelings toward it.
Sherman Alexie was not only hilarious and brilliant in person, but a great guy to me when I met him: really friendly and down-to-earth. Of course I’m not completely shocked he’s a creep, because #yesallwomen isn’t the…

BRILLIANT! Someone greenlight this! I’m thinking set on a small farm... no, wait, a prestigious college!

seriously! I haven’t read the book and was meh on Noah’s comedy, but was mesmerized by the Fresh Air interview where he talks about his mother. I remember sitting in the car after I got where I was going, not able to stop listening to the stories about her. She was fucking amazing. I want to say “fearless,” but she mus…

omg, right? I read that line and was like, can you hear yourself??? Did you skim this before hitting ‘send?’

Ayup. This was straight gift to gift + his last minute idea. The type of gift isn’t at *all* the issue.

Do not give up your life to someone undeserving. This reads like emotional abuse, and if so, you are going to have to be the one to stop it. You are strong, and smart. Don’t be like I was and put up with this at the expense of your heart and well being.

That was Gift-Gift, though. It wouldn’t matter if her gift to him had been a massage she gave him, detailing his car as a surprise, a poem about how great he was, or a big box of candy - he wasn’t trying to communicate love or make a connection with his surprise! last minute gift requirement, and his lashing out isn’t…

Accurate comment is depressingly accurate.

Oh honey, I am so sorry. That is a pile of suck and SUPER unfair and I hope you do have a few friends around to bitch about it to, as well as your therapist (although glad you have them).

That said... the other responses on this post may seem melodramatically disproportionate to one isolated incident, but you said,…

same.

gulf states is a good example, thanks - especially because, “they’re not *slaves,* because the came here by choice, to work!” also applies (which would be the easiest argument against it being slavery). Except they’re not citizens, have almost no rights or protections whatsoever, and are routinely subject to all kinds…

Jesus H., I was just talking with a stranger on fb, who read this on the same friend’s post, and was as convinced as I was that this was A Modest Proposal for immigration. But, apparently, as everyone else on fb (and this article) told us, we are wrong - this was written and published in earnest.
Which:‘chicken-process…

ugh. I agree (and I have the teeth to prove it! :D), but good luck getting anyone to agree to EVER do that, even for a short time. I still think having daily frustrations over limited choices & living in proximity to actual people that did have to deal with that kind of crushing constant background terror would be…

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[eta: that was the closest I could get to typing WTACTUALFUCK?, in case it was too cryptic. I am having... feelings. Cannot imagine yours. ughh.]

(don’t be ridiculous and hyperbolic; throwing her into a trunk could hurt the baby!)

...wow. I am both very sorry your family adheres to those beliefs and impressed that you managed to escape the same.

Goddamn... my mom’s at least a liberal, but she still has SO MUCH SHAME about the fact that she was ever on welfare, that it’s unbelievable. Not because she was ever wealthy, but she was raised in a very working-class, democrats-4-lyfe ‘cause we’re NY-Irish/JFK/historyreasonswhatever, and even though she always…

(dude, right? aieee)