I’m just.... I’m sorry. I voted for Hillary and so did all of my friends (as far as I know) and I’m still ashamed and embarrassed of all the white women who voted for Trump.

She’s a wonderful mother but I don’t understand her. I’ve finally come to a place where we just don’t talk about it and that keeps an uneasy peace.

God I have a family reunion with my deep south Louisiana/Mississippi family and I’m dreading it. I’m literally going to tell my mother to not even tell me how she voted because I think I know the answer but I can’t bear to know for sure.

Suddenly I’m looking forward to The Handmaid’s Tale tv show a lot less than I was...

You know what I keep wondering? If Melania will take the unprecedented step of divorcing a sitting president. I cannot imagine that she is AT ALL looking forward to her role as First Lady.

“They paraded by Mr. Sam Levy’s house one night, but Sam just stood on his porch and told ‘em things had come to a pretty pass, he’d sold ‘em the very sheets on their backs. Sam made ‘em so ashamed of themselves they went away.”

I LOVE the idea of him sadly putting up the tree and then just leaving with literally no explanation.

Every sports commentator ever: “If they’re going to win, they’re really going to have to get more points on the board.”

Welcome to the profession :)

I had a ridiculously rich guy at a bar where I used to hang out offer me the equivalent of the private school tuition he was paying to be a private tutor to his two daughters (Jane Austen style governess, basically). It wasn’t as much as I was making at the time, but if he got two more kids in on the deal it would…

Oh Mandeville is so nice! But you’re right- once you leave the city limits of NOLA everything takes a dramatic and frightening right turn.

Where you from? I live in NOLA and my boyfriend is from St. John the Baptist Parish

I mean, some of it is being contrarian, but a big part of it is also that, as a schoolteacher, I’m pretty much working from 6-6, and early voting places are a) not open that long and b) not convenient to my house. I have election day off and I’m willing to wait in line as long as it takes.

You know, I really loved Belle as a child because I thought it was so brave of her to go and stay in the dungeon in her father’s place (because the cold and damp would have killed him). I also liked her no-nonsense attitude when it came to the beast (the scene when he tells her she has to come down and eat and she…

I’m being real contrary about that this year. I’m purposefully voting on election day because I’m not going to be intimidated in my own neighborhood at my polling place. But also my election day polling place is like, two blocks from my house so I’ll walk there and then go get a daiquiri and wait out the insanity.

When the supreme court ruling came down I messaged my best friend, who’s a gay man, and told him “Congratulations. Now you get the same shit from your mother as the rest of us.”

Yeah- same here.

I vividly remember crying and crying and crying one Halloween because my mom made me wear a coat over the absolutely gorgeous gold ball gown she’d made for my Belle costume.

I feel like that’s the kind of thing I would wake up and see and be like “this motherfucker...” and then look around and realize someone had switched all the signs and laugh.
You have to have the context of every sign being switched.

I think that over the past few years, Republican rhetoric has just become so unhinged and unabashedly batshit that people forget there was a point when Republican vs. Democrats was truly a matter of economic/welfare policies. Then family values and culture wars got dragged into it and now here we are.