I suggest you read the novella ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’
Harbinger23
harbinger23
Man, we got that phone call this year. A boy wouldn’t stop touching my daughter’s hair. So after repeatedly telling him to stop and requesting to be moved, she snapped on him. Do you know what they told us? “Well, she has fun hair.” Oh and, “her reaction was hostile”. So I then had to let them have it. We left,…
right. the idiot kids didn’t get it, but she, also a teen, is expected to have a mature and civilized way of handling being sexually assaulted. They were just playin, huh. “Boys will be boys.” WTFever. GTFO with your bullshit double-standard. Don’t ever grab or touch anyone without permission. Ever. Expect you might…
“Any kind of punching would have been unacceptable. Yelling would have been unacceptable. Not laughing would have been unacceptable.”
I still tried to “run with the boys,” to be a tom boy because that’s what I was taught at school: That smart girls become one of the boys, that they emulate masculinity and embrace male interests.
(an occupational hazard when you’re a woman writer, a life hazard when you’re kind of a bitch)
I agree with this. I’m of the camp (in this particular debate... if it even qualifies as such) that neither looks particularly bad. I think Cho was trying to riff as comics are prone to do and the joke/content may not have landed...Given that I only read what she said as opposed to actually listening to it I may be…
Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Just wanted to offer a little wisdom that a friend of color offered me, re: your wanting to talk about race and feeling that your experiences are unappreciated/being told that your views are illegitimate and/or biased.
If you are “anti-Israel”, yes, that is an anti-Semitic stance. We were given Israel because we weren’t exactly welcomed back into our homes in Europe with open arms post-WWII. If you think we should lose our country, give all the land back to the Palestinians, and just fuck off, that’s anti-Semitic.
If you think…
Recuse herself...from what? On what grounds? She didn’t commit any crimes or do anything wrong. Her husband text-cheated on her. She is not psychic.
So let me get this straight: Huma should have been fired or removed somehow because her husband sexted a few years ago? What he did then was not a crime, just embarrassing. Again, Huma should not be punished for not being psychic enough to know her husband would end up sexting a teenager or for attempting to stay…
“watching movies, drinking wine and randomly just look at the ceiling shouting “FUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK!” ?
If this election has taught us anything, it’s that it’s *always* the woman’s fault.
Anthony Weiner, a huge fucking dick with the impulse control of a protozoa.
Look at it this way, it took Wikileaks, the Russian government, the FBI, fake news, cable news, and 30 years of Republican hatred to stop her from winning the election. (And she still got 3M more votes).
Yup. And if I read one more “Hillary lost because of a bad campaign” and not rampant unhinged sexism, racism and entitlement plus a white supremacist, misogynst FBI, Russian & GOP electioneering and a obliviously easy to manipulate and sexist media (EMAILLLLLLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...I am going to destroy something. Even…
And yet many of us - myself included - were like “There is no way a signficant amount of ‘undecided voters’ would choose this disaster of a human being over an overqualified and competent woman for president.” I feel so fucking stupid.
I have yet to meet any single player who only wanted to be the slightly dim witted but muscle bound, not really heroic but still saved the day Conan type.
You remind me of a scene in one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books (sadly I forget which one). They have the Seamstress Guild. At one point, a man goes to them, bashfully, with a need that his wife used to fill. They brought someone out who could fill his special need.
Even the Seamstress Guild occasionally needs…