He’s calculating, that’s what I pick up. The fact that he’s been given all this attention when Booker and Castro have the same pedigree makes me look at him side-eyed. He’s NOT getting my vote. Period. 

No, you don’t. Not when he’s had eight years to do something -- anything, especially as he brags about his “record” as an executive even when his constituents have plenty of evidence that all he’s done is throw them repeatedly under the bus — and he literally did nothing.

Edit: and I know, I know, we build - they burn it down. But we cannot get discouraged & stop trying.

“alot of the ghetto neighborhoods where I’m from”

Thank you for your “I had it bad, too, moment”. But last I checked, your mother wasn’t voting to shift all the resources from your school to a White one across town near the new “walkable” community. Your mother was just one White piece of shit you had to grow up with and for that, I’m sorry. Imagine a crowd full of…

Are you for fucking real?!?!?!?!?

Bill, it’s time for you to shut the entire fuck up forever, serve your time and go away. You’ve had 50 years of drugging and raping and whatnot and by all accounts, we may never -ever- know how many women you violated, given that surely some of them passed on before you were called into account.

Why do you feel the need for this unnecessary storytime here? 

Thanks Honey. I’m really trying to keep a kid on the emotion because I don’t know where I’ll go if I break the seal (so to speak). I feel like there will be time for that later. It’s so good to have this space & these people to vent off some of the pressure from time to time.

I haven’t been posting much. I’ve been in a weird head space so I haven’t had much to say. My boy’s cancer has decided that it doesn’t want to play nice or mind its own business so it’s been a tough couple of weeks. He’s handling it all pretty well and I’m proud of that but also heartbroken & angry for him. Imagine in…

Just because she’s a black woman does not give her or anyone else a free pass to promote dangerous crash diets. Full stop. There’s a huge difference between criticizing a person for having an eating disorder vs criticizing that person’s choice to use their platform to promote disordered eating. 

All those body issues you had that you spend so much time describing, yeah, CupcakKe is helping cause those issues in other young girls.

Please let him die on Christmas Day.

Dessen’s next book will be about a pure-of-heart aspiring writer who gets a curse put on her by an internet witch.

she saw something she felt hurt by, called it out, and friends supported her.

Does that even imply teen girls have low standards? If I said Twilight is fine for teen girls, but shouldn’t be the choice for a college’s required freshman read, wouldn’t that generally be understood as being about Twilight and not teen girls? After all, Twilight is literally a book intended for teen girls. It’s…

I’ve had a bunch of those. That’s just emotions, not emotional immaturity. If I dealt with it by turning around and kicking my dog, that’s emotional immaturity.  Everyone feels things.  Not everyone hurts others because of their feelings.

Nothing says fighting the patriarchy like calling a random young woman a “fucking bitch” amirite ladies

“The issue here is that what she did went well beyond “not liking the book””