“Who are you talking to?” and older woman’s voice shouted worriedly from the background.

“Don’t think Hillary needs to be prom queen.” You lost me there.

It’s simple, Matt. And I’ll use the most basic examples.

It’s a pretty big jump from “some Bernie supporters are sexist bros” to “there are literally no feminist/female Bernie supporters.” Of course the latter is not true, but the campaign has had some undeniable gender issues and I don’t see the point in ignoring that.

I’ve never been keen on Bernie, but I did admire, for a while, how he seemed to value integrity and the high road even at his own expense. I could see how that appealed to people. But it’s clear now that he can be a disingenuous, enabling motherfucker just like any other politician. The jig is up.

There’s also the fact that the delegates from the low population states that he wins have delegates that represent faaaaaar fewer people than the large population centers that Hillary won. Like we’re talking 300 v. 3000. He hasn’t even done as well as it artificially appears he has and he’s still losing handily. It…

Bernie voters = college students who want their grade changed because they didn’t read the syllabus, or because they thought they did better, or they worked really hard and deserved a better grade, or because their GPA is important, dammit, and how dare you screw this up?

Berners have gone from simply being insufferable crybabies to having full-on toddler-style temper tantrums as well. That’ll bring people around to your way of thinking, geniuses.

Want to know what’s really undemocratic? Caucuses. If BSers actually cared about the democratic process they would be protesting the caucus system, not the archaic rules within. Just scrap that whole system and go to primaries.

Fucking yes. You know what my sexual assault did to my character? Nothing. I drank too much for a bit and occasionally got very drunk and told whichever poor person happened to be nearest to me all about it. I got absolutely hammered the day the statue of limitations expired. And I continued moving on with my life. It…

It’s always interesting when people say stuff like “well this is the real world / rape is a part of real life and you need to be less offended by that” when they’ve never experienced any kind of sexual assault themselves. It’s just so fucking arrogant. Because buddy, those survivors know more about the ‘real world’…

this tired literary and film device also reinforces simplistic thinking like this in “real life”. When involved in a lawsuit against an employer for sexually harassing me (amongst other types of harassment and discrimination), the defense was able to gain access to information that I had been sexually abused and…

Also, audiences can figure out when rape has taken place without graphic depictions. In the latest Mad Max it’s pretty obvious that there was non-consensual sex involved without having to see Immortan Joe’s (probably) freaky junk.

Right? This is the thing: I just don’t need to see it any more. It’s become a sort of bullshit shorthand for “serious” treatment of female characters. You want to show me what a great auteur you are? Show me the relationships between your (named female) characters. Show me a sisterhood, or a mother-daughter…

I spoke about this to my friends last year. There are way too many of us out here who have been sexually assaulted. We don’t need to constantly see it in movies and shows. We get it. We fucking get it.

Homophobia was already part of the institution. DADT was an effort to bar military personnel from aggressively pursuing people they suspected as being gay with disciplinary action. It gave soldiers the right not to disclose, and took away the right of officers to go after them. In the years that passed since the…

Dude, were you alive when DADT was passed? Seriously? Because before, it was a witch hunt where officers in the military could accuse someone of being gay, aggressively go after them and discharge them dishonorably. DADT was a fucking compromise to stop that practice. The Clintons have left plenty to be desired but…

Really? They closeted themselves in fear of losing a job it had been illegal for them to have prior to DADT?

Do people not read Gideon's Trumpet anymore? Because you straight up sound like you think rapists don't deserve any right to representation.

I don’t think what Bill did was nothing - I think it was a major problem, and deserved to be discussed publicly, and should affect his legacy. HIS. When we talk about Bill Clinton (or any number of politicians, even some of the more beloved ones), I think we should be discussing his history of harassment. But I don’t…