“At 40, everyone has the face they deserve.” Oscar Wilde

I think the guy who took tests for Trump was paid. I hope he was paid; Trump has few to no friends.

They are so consumed by their white grievance as to become totally irrational.

Republicans -or what is left of the Republican party under Trump- have increasingly become the party of white rage and grievance. I can’t even begin to fathom how much cognitive dissonance it takes to think screaming, waving guns, rage tweeting in all caps -all about poor little you- is “owning” anything but…

More and more what remains of the Republican Party has become the party of grievance and shouting in all caps. The idea that the “libs are being owned” -and I agree that to the shrinking Republican base, everybody that is not cheering along with them is...a “libtard”. Look...they’re not “owning” anything but a slice…

The problem is only partly women...the incels perceive women as not responding to them. Their view is also that they “deserve” very “hot” women, who they want to use and discard. There is a LOT of anger there, both because these men do not have high positions, and supermodels. Elliot Rogers whole screed was that he…

There was an appropriate Marlena Dietrich quote I’ll paraphrase. A man was trying to pick her up, and she said “What? Speak up. I warn you, there is nothing men want that a beautiful woman has not heard by the time she is 16.”

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This is ...so true, about intersectionality and exhaustion.  I had no idea that black civil organizations were warning black women not to become suffragettes, and stick to tending the home. That’s pretty close to Phyllis Schafly’s advice in the 80's.

Yes...that’s what I meant when I wrote that women (meaning all women) did not get the vote for another 50 years. You’re absolutely right that the civil rights legislation of 1964/65 -almost 100 years after black men ostensibly had the right to vote!- was necessary to make voting rights a reality. You’re right again…

There was a good Ta-Nehisi Coates article on Staunton and the schism between suffragettes (who had been abolitionists) and abolitionists. There is no question Stanton and Anthony were bitter at the lack of support for the vote for women, both black and white women waited many years for the right to vote. And Jim Crow…

People always throw their own garbage.

This is an excellent point.

Well...no one has ever been denied their right to not have an abortion. So no person in the anti abortion group has been disenfranchised. I guess their sticking point is that other people- other women- might decide to have an abortion. People who are anti abortion are against other people choosing to have an abortion,…

Yes. Is it you you’re escaping from or other people, though? I used to do a mental model of a reflective bubble all around me, to reflect back other people’s feelings/moods/trauma. But then...Pisces moon. It was a useful thing for me, as I -sometimes- found it hard to determine not *what* I was feeling/thinking, but…

Horses as props.

As a Libra, we also are amazed at your ability to just do what you want, full steam ahead. Scorpios ability to not give a shit what the neighbors think is always to be envied. Ok, that and the sexiness. Intensity and sexiness, and not giving a shit.

Hey. Fellow Libras. Yes, I think the weighing of...everything, of what is said and done reads as a lack of sympathy to some. Fair enough, as every Libra ever said. It’s a unique sign. Every other sign is represented as human, or animal. Libra is a machine, a scale of justice. What’s not scary as an outwardly shallow…

I wished for all the popcorn reading this. Sure, I think I should be telling you that if someone can make you stew for a week over a 10 minute investment in being shitty to you...well, they’re winning. I want to say that because when I was divorcing a drug addicted scorpio who grabbed our daughter and left the state…

Hey...Einstein couldn’t do algebra. And neither could I, but it felt better knowing that algebra made no sense to him, either.