Yeah, my main thought was how childhood makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get away from abusers. Adulthood FTW!

Childhood for me was filled with being beaten up, being threatened with being beaten up, people laughing at me, not understanding other people or social situations, and never quite being sure if I am doing enough or to little to be accepted as I was wherever I was.

This Administration is so fucking ignorant in every way. If Obama or Hillary were conducting themselves in such an uninformed and deceitful manner every Republican in America would be calling for impeachment.

Yep, especially because if you didn’t have a great childhood, you didn’t even get the “ignorance is bliss” part. Just “everything sucks and you have no power to change it.” Adulthood all the way.

Oh god yes. The feeling of having no control over my own destiny was deeply painful as a child, and it STILL bothers me. I think probably 75% of the arguments I’ve gotten into with people in my adult life have arisen from me being over-sensitive about feeling like someone was trying to control me/tell me what to do.…

Was childhood even that great, anyway?

God, I was suicidal at 10. I read adult novels and never went outside. Now I know if I am feeling low, go for a damn walk. Adulting!

Why the fuck does Pence always look like he’s about to introduce legislation to outlaw the X-Men?

“What I would like to see is this make people stop and think,” she told the Tribune. “Maybe my colleagues aren’t capable of that, but the people who voted for them, or the people that didn’t vote at all, I hope that it changes their mind and helps them to decide what the priorities are.”

The grey-trolls are SO mad, y’all. It’s like next-level mansplaining. lol Go die in a fire.

Jezebel has become very meaningful to me, so all my love and support to the writers striking. This is the only place I can stomach reading politics now, and the commenters here are gold. Life would be shit without the women writers of Jezebel. ❤🌸

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again... require a firearms safety insurance, whether it’s an individual plan or a rider on homeowners insurance or car insurance. It’s the conservative-friendly free market solution. The insurance industry is the best regulator of public safety when regulation by the government…

Is this the liberal terrorism Twitter was talking about?

A drunk person can give effective consent, if you’re in a long-term relationship, you know the person very well, and the intent is absolutely clear. For pretty much everyone else, there’s a huge fucking difference. And anytime one partner is intoxicated and the other is sober (or substantially less intoxicated), the…

Hey, if that coma patient didn’t want it, she wouldn’t lay there with those tubes, looking like a hussy.

A question I go back to time and time again. Say the passenger was male. He’s found unconscious, pants off, the taxi driver thrusting into his ass. Would the judge still consider whether or not there had been a “flirtation” before the guy passed out?

I can’t help having a nasty feeling in my gut that the reason he’s decided to recuse himself without any fight isn’t because he’s been backed into a corner but because there isn’t going to be any meaningful investigation to begin with.

I’m so tired.

I read an article yesterday about cross-gender casting (specifically regarding the Spicer sketch, but it gave a nice little rundown of how men-dressed-as-women is a go-to for yuks), which rightly pointed out that there’s an extra bite to the rabid press monkey being portrayed by a woman. I love it. I wallow in how…