Soooo beyond comprehension. Something is missing in those folks. I can barely listen for 3 minutes just for educational purposes. 

It’s interesting how those of us who were raised to obey the rules have internalized those lessons so much - wow, were they effective! - that even now we haven’t risen up to take back our country. And even knowing there must be hundreds of government workers, and private workers, and media figures, who have access to…

I remember a scene from Testament (had to look it up, got it confused with The Day After - I was just a kid so...) where the mom is trying to save her kids and holding one of the kids over the sink as he shits relentlessly from radiation sickness, and that has stuck with me for over 30 years now. I was probably 9 or…

I teach writing and I just finished grading final exams for the semester. Several students were borderline between b/c/d’s in their numerical grade averages. But the final grade is given by me, and we have what’s called “fudge” points which are our assessment of a grade beyond just the numerical average. I gave 3…

As a woman, I agree. I think people are okaying this because she’s a girl, not a boy. But this is not normal, even for the money. 

I wonder if her being a girl rather than a boy makes people okay with her perpetual child act. Even today people are perv-shaming Paul Reuben from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse because it turns out he was just a normal wanking dude when he wasn’t ACTING as Pee-Wee. I don’t know much about this young girl, but it seems she…

Bingo. Let’s not pretend this is normal even if it’s partly or mostly driven by money. But at some point your average teen is seeking social acceptance from their peers, and this ain’t that.

One of my digital rhetoric courses as a graduate student used the pro-ana sites as a theme for analyzing rhetoric. The only problem was that the professor was clearly suffering from ED and she wanted us to analyze the rhetorical discourse of these communities as legit persuasive domains of communication. Which they…

I have never had an abortion, but I went with my sister for hers. She was shaking and scared but it was absolutely the best choice she ever made, as the already-negligent mother of three kids that she couldn’t - and didn’t- care for or want. My own mother had four children that she never wanted, starting at 14 years…

I don’t know about that, but I have tears of pride for this woman right now. We need more parents to do this, this IS community parenting. It’s teaching that there are consequences for bullying and social responsibility. I’m curious about how this came about, her coming to the class (it looks like a teacher sitting…

I <3 you. 

Good to hear the system is working exactly as it was designed to. And I mean that both sarcastically and realistically: these laws are designed to literally shackle poor women - mostly WOC but not only - to motherhood and the endless cycle of poverty. I too was a teen mother, but I was raised in New England. Not only…

*ded* 

I’m dying with laughter right now. Thankfully working from home because the post and comments has me crying. 

LOL. 

I’m 46 this year and feeling like a mature looking 20 year old. 

I’m caught up on the name, that’s Murray with a southern drawl right? 

I feel like the abject poverty and lack of resources/support is the point. Overwhelm the poor with no choices, and you have modern day slavery. 

I just watched A Plastic Ocean on Netflix, and today talked to my son about not having children. He’s eight years old, but I am truly frightened by what our world will look like - politically, environmentally, and culturally - in just 10 years. That film is scary real. 

Also an adoptive mother, also think that it’s the biggest honor of my life. My child was born to an addict bio-mother in prison. What she looked like, what medical conditions she may have had, none of that mattered.