Sorry, but...no. The “choice” she made was literally the only morally acceptable thing (i.e. the “choice” to no longer hold innocent people hostage) that even most sub-averagely decent people would choose.
Sorry, but...no. The “choice” she made was literally the only morally acceptable thing (i.e. the “choice” to no longer hold innocent people hostage) that even most sub-averagely decent people would choose.
I’d bet that their having just gotten back from a totally chill 6-week vacation in Canada—during which they probably (like just about everybody else on vacation) said to themselves at least once a day, “Wouldn’t it be nice if our life could *always* be like this...?”—probably had a lot to do with it.
He pressured her into a sexual act she was clearly reluctant to perform, and the threat he hung over her head was, “I won’t think you’re cool. I won’t like you. I won’t call you again.”
You really don’t understand Joyce’s reasons for moving away?
THANK YOU!!! The writers are only able to build their whole “bitches be crazy, amirite?” endgame with the flimsiest of connective tissue because they can rely on our preconceived ideas about women being too emotional to be trusted with power to fill in the blanks for them.
Did you read “City of Light, City of Poison”? If not, you SO TOTALLY should!
Sadly, it’s very common for victims of abuse to defend their abusers against “outsiders.”
W could show up and laugh because he was a fundamentally confident person—confident that everything he was doing was the right thing to do, and confident generally in his place in the world as a wealthy, reasonably attractive white man. That confidence may have been unearned, but it was there and it was why he could…
Do they get up all the time during turbulence when holding an infant in their lap/arms like this woman was? Because that sounds like the beginning of a story where we’re all blaming some stupid mother whose baby banged its head and died for not having been secured with her baby in her seat during said turbulence.
No, you most certainly CANNOT, because CHILDREN ARE HUMAN BEINGS, NOT PROPERTY!!!
Twenty years ago, I worked for a start-up dot-com and a male co-worker used our office’s IM system to hit me with some inappropriately sexual remarks. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I do remember that even though I’d been flirted with plenty in the workplace, these comments made me distinctly uncomfortable…
There were a lot of Jews fleeing the Holocaust who were denied entry into the U.S. (most Jews were denied entry to the U.S. during WWII before America entered the war) and ended up in Latin America instead.
There were a lot of Jews fleeing the Holocaust who were denied entry into the U.S. (most Jews were denied entry to the U.S. during WWII before America entered the war) and ended up in Latin America instead.
My mom’s black. :) Does that count?
I think it does bear mentioning that while only 38% of white women voted for Jones, that still beats the hell out of the 16% of white women in Alabama who voted for HC. So that 38%, while still a minority, actually represents a pretty significant shift within a short period of time. Rome wasn’t built in a day. There’s…
Thank you!!! I’m an author, and I can’t tell you how many emails I’ve gotten from readers over the years saying that they first found one of my books in their local library and liked it so much they went out and bought a copy of another one of my books—or bought a copy of the same book they’d borrowed from the library…
Fuck the ICE agents.
I grew up in Miami. Say what you will about Florida, but growing up in Miami in the ‘80s and ‘90s was a gift. There were basically no white people (except for a few small, irrelevant pockets). The closest thing we had to whites was Jews (of which I am one). Everybody else was black or Hispanic or both. It was…
It’s very simple, really. Boomers were lucky enough to be born into the single greatest period of widely distributed economic prosperity human history has ever known—one bolstered by just about everything the state can do to distribute those advantages across all socioeconomic groups (progressive taxation,…
The TV show you’re talking about exists. It’s called “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and it’s awesome. (As is the novel it’s based on.)