A lot of times, we don’t feel like we can express the pain we’re in in any kind of authentic way. That’s what leads to stuff like this, I think. He doesn’t think his real pain will win him any sympathy. It’s a very dishonest way to live, and ultimately worsens the problem - If this had succeeded and he had won his…

*wince* I don’t really know who she is, but that was painful to watch. Poor woman.

I... hmm. Mixed feelings. The picture above is beautiful and vulnerable and evocative. Nudity, in general, can be beautiful and vulnerable and evocative.

• “To increase your sex drive, make yourself aware of something called ‘background pleasure’: ‘If you move your shoulder and allow yourself to feel the rub of your shirt on your skin, or the brushing of your hair against your neck, those sensations are innately sensual, and pleasure that can be accessed anytime.’”

I cut my mother off 8 months ago. I think of her all the time. She probably thinks I’m doing it to hurt her, but I’m doing it because she can hurt me so easily, and she’s so incredibly determined to pin me as the dysfunctional problem child she raised me to believe I was that I know if we talked, it would take less…

My sister was my father’s Golden Child. She was my mother’s Scapegoat. It was confusing as hell for all of us, but especially her.

“Rinse Pubis”

Nothing commands respect like desperation, amirite?

“Respect from male partners is probably what most women right now want the motherfucking most!”
Shh shh shhhhh... That’s just the feminist agenda lying to you. Just respect your man and do as you’re told and it’ll all work out. Or it won’t, and we’ll explain to you why you weren’t really doing it right and then…

Speak for yourself. I’m my own favorite well-meaning white friend.

I think that if he ever had any doubts, they’ve been purged by now. I mean, taking as a given that this is a fairly polarizing thing, he’s probably surrounded himself by now with people who believe him/agree with him/pump him up. Anyone who was horrified by this is long since out of his life. His whole identity is now…

I think what he means is “I would personally like everyone to just shut up and stop bugging me so I can go on to a great life and pretend like this never happened.” His mellow is being totally harshed right now.

“For example, the complaint says, Columbia’s policies include no examples of sexual violence involving a male victim and a female perpetrator, only female victims and male perpetrators, or gender-neutral victims and perpetrators.”

Pristine synonymous with virginal. They want to fantasize about being the first to “pierce” that.

I disagree with the “trash” thing and I think that’s kind of mean, but I really just came here to say that I loved the “God does what he wants to do.” That was beautiful. She couldn’t have trolled Cruz much better if she’d been doing it on purpose.

There are. I have a few really remarkable, really religious Christians in my life who resist from within the system. But I agree with the commenters saying that they’re mostly trying to sort this out quietly. I think that bold, loud bigotry requires confidence in a black-and-white perspective; whereas an ability to…

Easy. This is a racist country to its core, founded on slavery and genocide. The default is to be racist. I’m writing my dissertation on the reproduction of race and I’m still racist. So if you’re not being “sensitive,” you are VERY PROBABLY being racist. Hope that helps.

But it probably won’t, because your sarcastic…

“hoot and holler”

You’re a racist asshole. Rethink your life choices.

Fair enough. I had in my head this was an older cemetery - maybe because bones were being washed up in the rain, which to me would indicate that the water table has been changing over the years. I just double checked and now I’m not sure how old the bones are or who might still be around that cares about them. That…

...Ok, that sounded douchey even as I was writing it. I guess I just think that once people are dead, it’s their relationships with the living that define them. These people are gone. And they don’t have relationships with anyone - their bones were washing up and away anyway. Is it just the fact that those bones were…