It’s not stupid to politely disagree. And my post doesn’t mean that I don’t have an understanding of the points you make. I don’t think you “write off” those people, but you don’t have to cater to them as if they are special snowflakes whose concerns are the only valid ones. We don’t abandon those parts of the…

I’ve seen a lot of online posts saying that we need to work to understand the “Trump voter.” That liberal elitism prevented us from seeing/reaching the scared middle-American who saw their way of life slipping away. But, seriously, fuck that nonsense. I grew up in a small Alaskan town and I got out. I’ve gone back…

That’s exactly the incident I was talking about. It happened in my South Philly neighborhood and I walked by it on my way to work. It’s horrifying.

Indeed. I need today to process and gather myself. But I will not keep silent. I will not let them go unchallenged. And we will all regroup with a vengeance.

I woke to my neighbors cackling on the street about “making America great again” and walked down the street to my subway stop and saw a swastika and the words “sig heil” graffiti-ed on a shop window. The world has changed. The petulant man children of white America have shown that when it counts, they will not show…

Absolutely. When living in Korea, I started speaking an accented English and wouldn’t realize I was doing it until I spoke to my family back home. My Korean friends told me that they’d forget I didn’t really speak Korean because my English sounded like them speaking English. It was wholly unintentional, but I am…

He violated two of the most fundamental edicts 1) you don’t harm any children and 2) you especially protect your own children. And yet, it’s apparently to the “ultimate protection of the victim” to only imprison him for 17 days? And then the mom in this scenario is more worried about the relationship he “needs” to…

May you remain so. Truly. My divorce wasn’t even acrimonious, as far as these things go, but we could not be friends - it was too painful - and I mourned that loss along with everything else.

It really causes myriad feelings, often conflicting. I am sorry you are going through this. Lean on your people as much as you need to. It will be rough, emotionally, even if you are both good and reasonable people. I am wishing you the best and smoothest of transitions possible.

I’m really glad to hear that - that’s fantastic!

So many awesome moments to choose from, right? I hope that you have now come out on the other side of it, for the most part.

I’m sorry you are in pain. Breakups, just generally, can be really tough even without the paperwork of a divorce. Hang in there.

Mine wasn’t even terrible in the big scheme of it all. There were moments of sheer incredulity at the gall of my ex to say and do certain things, but it wasn’t a knock down drag out thing. And yep, still, having to watch that life you knew and the future you planned on evaporate is excruciating.

My ex and I didn’t have kids, which is maybe the one savings grace in all of it. He even moved across the country. And yet, a photo from a mutual friend will sometimes pop up, or I will unpack a box and find something there that gives me a flashback. Sometimes it’s a loving memory, sometimes it’s a crappy one. But…

That was my first take, but then she directly stated that that description was also apt for the experience of watching it, in which case it appears that she seems to think that both going through a divorce and watching the show are “darkly enjoyable.”

Right? I didn’t hate my ex. It was painful and sad and I was angry at him at times, as I sure he was at me. But to look at this person you used to just love unreservedly and see it all falling apart is nothing less than fucking brutal.

I hope you never go through a divorce. Maybe I did my divorce “wrong” but there was nothing enjoyable about it. Not even “darkly enjoyable.” Devastating and tedious? Sure.

Exactly. That the media continues to pretend like they are remotely equivalent is disgusting, willfully ignorant and dangerous.

I think this is, sadly, 100% the case. Black people who have done everything “right” have still ended up dead in encounters with police. And it’s so fucked up.

Yes. How “strange” that a black man, when confronted by a cop, would put his hands in the air. It couldn’t possibly be that he wanted to preemptively signal that he was unarmed, given that so many other black person-cop interactions turn deadly without provocation.