She definitely had a type.

Well sounds like Mr. Oesterreich’s land got annexed by his neighbor up north. Worked out about the same, too.

My old house had the most beautiful attic. It had 7 foot ceilings and skylights and giant windows with views of the ocean and mountains. And despite us living in literally the rainiest city in North America, it was always bone dry and smelled amazing. We wanted to turn it into an extra room (I was picturing window…

Paragraph 11: “She inherited all her husband’s money and bought a new house with an even bigger attic”

“he grew to love Dolly ‘as a boy loves his mother.’”

And the lover dies and haunts the mansion, because nobody but the husband knew that they were locked in the cellar. Or one day basement-lover and attic-lover meet, fall in love and plan to get rid of the couple to take over the mansion.

All the broom closets filled with mistresses and rent boys...

That would be a fantastic dark comedy.

These people must have much nicer attics than mine, which is filled with old insulation and has hardly enough room to crouch, much less space to hang out and read pulp magazines while waiting to sex up the lady of the house.

The husband’s lover.

That’s a strange mix between The Graduate and Jane Eyre.

Don’t pretend that structures of power and institutionalized oppression don’t exist. It makes you look incredibly foolish. Racism is about systemized oppression. Systems of oppression don’t target white people. I really hate that I have to share a racial identity with assholes like you.

And he still doesn’t, apparently. :(

- Muhammad Ali

It’s different for white people because it’s different for white people. Being white in this country is a dramatically different experience than being black in this country. Black folks’ preference to be around other black folks comes arises from that history and experience of being the people who have been…

It’s the same bullshit people pulled off when Mandela died: everybody started praising his uplifiting speeches, his “stoic” endurance of prison, etc., as if those were his actions that helped to bring apartheid down, not his early militance, participation in rebellions and even armed fighting in some instances, that…

Shhhh

To subvert the racial politics and black identity of Muhammad Ali, of all people, is astonishing on the level of trying to use Martin Luther King Jr. quotes to reprimand Black Lives Matter.

20 Minutes. My rapist took only about 15. That was >40 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten. These rapists think they are blameless. It only took 20 minutes, why is the rest of my life in ruins. BECAUSE THE REST OF MINE IS RUINED. POS