Reading Jesmyn Ward’s The Men We Reaped. Heavy but really, really beautiful.

Yeah - I am in Louisiana which is probably much redder than TX, but even so, we could definitely get a few more blue House Reps in there. We had a Democratic Senator until 2012. We have a Democratic governor now. I am annoyed that the DNC ignores all our down-ticket races.

Yes - pregnancy is a life-threatening (and life-altering) medical condition. Birth control is medical care. Period.

It’s incredible to me that people don’t understand insurance. Yes, dickbags. you are CURRENTLY PAYING FOR some alcoholic’s cirrhosis, some smoker’s lung cancer, and some Republican’s out-of-wedlock childbirth. All by being part of a society. But what if I told you that you could SAVE MONEY?! Just re-route some of that…

Dude, the MULTIPLE agencies who have said that are exactly sure that Russia tampered with the elections don’t have to show you, kinja commenter, shit. They have the goddamn proof. Are you living in Trump’s meth-addled brain and just assuming that the agencies are corrupt? There is no amount of proof in the universe…

I know. I’m like...but it’s a feminist march tho. Do we just stop being feminist when you tell us to? Fuck off dude.

When you are having to defend your own fucking rights at every turn, it gets old to ask yourself, “but what if this is hurting a man I don’t know’s feelings?” You are not the ally you think you are if you are centering this on yourself.

What a fucking snowflake. Women do all the work and men are like “but wherez mine tho? Not fair!”

Ha, I was thinking of putting “People are laughing at you, Donald.”

Yes - and it’s important for us liberals in red areas to be mobilized, active, and support each other, even though we are outnumbered. It’s the only way we can start flipping districts blue. In Louisiana one in three voters went for Hillary. That is a huge number of people, even if it’s the minority.

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He is a fucking villain of epic proportions. On NPR, Steve King literally said “you have no right to a health insurance policy.” He is not even paying lip service to the Republican talking point that their healthcare ideas are better for Americans. He literally thinks it’s fine for people to just fucking die.

No. People fucking knew. People knew the stakes and they decided to assume the worst couldn’t happen.

I’m so sorry for what your family is going through. I am not an expert, and I don’t have this childhood experience, but one thing you mentioned kind of struck a nerve with me - that you asked your daughter how she feels, and invited her to talk about it. My feelings about anything - my grandmother dying, moving around…

Yeah, also? People used to get married right out of high school or college (if they went). Like, RIGHT out. That makes the living situation different. Of course those people probably didn’t live with their parents.

I know. I am solidly in the middle of that - born in 85 - and I have two siblings, 10 and 12 years younger than me. Our childhoods, with the same parents in the same place, were so different it was unreal. Now, their college experiences are so different. I don’t know how they make these decisions, but smart phones…

Fuck, we prosecute a poor mother leaving her kids in a park while she goes to a job interview.

And also the odds are different. If a woman comes at a man with the intent of physical harm, the man is more likely to be able to stop it.

Because she wasn’t answering clearly. BECAUSE HE WASN’T SATISFIED WITH THE WORDS COMING OUT OF HER MOUTH. “Lost his temper.” Fucking asshole.

Ugh, and regarding the safe word thing (also just like, being hyper aware of your friend’s facial expression when a guy is cornering her): we can’t even say it clearly. We can’t clearly say, “I’m uncomfortable with this” for fear of retaliation. There has to be a secret word and fucking deceit involved just to protect…