Not shade, but the Guardian has had some beautiful lines about Trump recently. For example, in an article about the struggle to find a headlining act for the inauguration:

we will likely stay first world but lower tiered like Ireland with worse healthcare and no U.K. to help with abortions.

I have no suggestions of factual feminism books, but I can recommend Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness Quartet as a series of fantasy novels that awakened my feminist feels as a young person.

I apologise. I should have said it CAN BE invalidating for people who do have diagnoses, which is speaking from my personal experience and the experiences of people that I’ve spoken to about this.

This isn’t about me being a professional, it’s about how it’s problematic labelling all socially unacceptable behaviour mental illness. It’s marginalising people who do have mental health difficulties even further.

I agree that unwell people shouldn’t be objects of derision, but I’m not seeing that sort of compassion…

...other possibilities that all fall under the mental illness umbrella. I just think that calling assholes mentally ill is othering and invalidating of people who do struggle with their mental health, and further marginalises one of the most disempowered groups of people in our society.

I know you don’t mean to be insensitive, but throwing around the term “mentally ill” and applying it to all famous people who say stupid/grandiose shit is really invalidating for people who do have diagnoses or use mental health care.

She’s been demonstrating signs consistent with unmedicated schizophrenia (or a related illness) for a while now

I love Sturgeon, Black, Dugdale, even Davidson. The Scottish parliament is a breath of fresh air. https://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle/epic-burns-night

The artist that made the stepping stones (“Stolpersteine”) in front of houses where murdered jews once lived wasn’t allowed to also put them in Munich, for whatever reason. There are over 50000 all over Germany and I’m sure you would have seen them in every other big town.

The German response to WWII was very thoughtful. They felt it was important to acknowledge what happened and not cover up or deny the atrocities of the Nazis. Munich, in particular, has these memorials hidden in plain sight, an integral part of the city. Most of them will be under your feet.

Really? Generally, in the Hauptstadt der Bewegung, reminders of the Nazi past are everywhere. Did you go to the Hofbraeuhaus? The swastikas on the ceiling are clearly visible. The golden path going from Theatinerstrasse to the parallel street, following the path of the people who avoided the checkpoint where one…

On a crepe, with strawberries. I also make my own when I feel the palm oil plus huge amounts of sugar in Nutella put me at risk of diabetes/dying of guilt at rainforest destruction...

Make your own! It changed my life.

It’s definitely a thing in the UK, loads of us in London started doing it after Brexit in particular. And it works!

k1ddkanuck quoted Leonard Cohen. I’m responding to him/her.

He got out at the right time.

Bumping this.

I apologise that my comment was insensitive- I was more frustrated that my colleagues (none of whom will be personally impacted by the eventual Brexit) needed two weeks to mourn Brexit, but thought on Wednesday I wouldn’t mind careless comparisons and jokes about a Trump presidency.

If one more Brit tries to tell me this is the same as Brexit, so they totally get it, I’m going lose my shit. Not. The. Same. Goddamn. Thing.