Jesus H. Christ the quotes in appeal order are something else. A couple of things that stuck me:

“Aside from all that, let’s just vote for the person that can beat Trump”

Once you achieve perfect clairvoyance that allows you to know exactly which candidates will beat Trump and which ones will lose to him, you can vote this way.

Until that moment, you’re sacrificing principles that are important to you based on your…

Yeah, I mean look at Trump in the Republican primary. He only said nice things about the other Republican candidates, which is why he won.

This isn’t infighting. It’s vetting a candidate. We can’t beat Trump if we don’t pick the most electable candidate, so we have to vet them intensely now, long before the general election.

There are currently eighteen billion people running for the Democratic nomination. We can afford to be a bit picky right now.

Also a reasonable evaluation about why you dont like a particular candidate isn’t fucking infighting. Jesus the drama

The primary is the part where you’re supposed to be infighting. The problems come when you forget to stop arguing after the primary is over.

I dont really have any patience for those who think we can’t have a reasonable discussion about candidates during a primary. We cant have all 50 of them on the ticket come election day. We gotta pick one. So let’s talk it out.

The valedictorian at my high school graduation put the “dick” in valedictorian. He was a jackass. His speech went on at length saying essentially that none of the rest of us deserved to graduate because we didn’t work for it. I was shocked to be hearing it, and further shocked that some faculty member or administrator…

I don’t know how I feel about this.

I mean...I haven’t done any work on my book in a year. My comments on Jez give me the delusion that I am actually not at a standstill.

but consider coming to write for Jezebel should things go alarmingly off course for you.

Alternatively, sometimes women like to talk about their actual lived experiences without being shit on. Bitches be crazy, I know.  Neither of us posited these as rigorous statistical assessments of workplace exclusion, but we’re also not alone:

Later in the letter, Sparks wrote: “Regarding diversity, I’ve now told you half a dozen times that our lack of diversity has NOTHING to do with the school or anyone at the school. It’s not because of what we as a school has or hasn’t done. It has nothing to do with racism or vestiges of Jim Crow. It comes down to 1)…

“We didn’t mean to exclude you, we just happened to get together, oh and while we hung out we made a bunch of decisions, here they are.” Like we don’t get exactly what happened and that it was very intentional, especially in smaller groups.

You see, ladies, there’s the fake meeting/conference and the real meeting/conference.

The only thing wrong here is that the lighting was so poorly matched that the ‘shop is obvious!

I hosted Greer at a university event one time, and she spent much of her talking time gushing about the Royal Family. I’m not qualified to discourse on feminism, but she gave the impression of someone settling nicely into the establishment and tired of punching up.

“Tiny quark of truth” means it’s incredibly difficult for there to be a chilling effect.

Right, but there’s a huge gulf between “publicly disagreeing” and “ideological totalitarianism”.