I’m the mother of two boys. If they’re in high school and a teacher propositions them and I find out I’m going straight to the police. It’s not just about the age difference. There’s also a real power imbalance.
This is a very interesting read and I won’t pretend to be able to relate to what this person went thru, but...
Maher didn’t radically misjudge the mood. He doesn’t give one damn about “the mood.” He’s simply racist. And sexist. And a narcissist. If people laugh, he’s affirmed. If they don’t, they just don’t get it or are too shackled by “political correctness” to be “with it”. But he’s never been with it. He’s an old troll in…
If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it.
If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it. Stop it now. Whatever the situation, even in “irony” [and from your perspective without malice], you’ve radically misjudged the mood. Stop it.
“For some reason, the issue of the Ring has emerged as a paramount issue for the Fellowship.” -Pence the White, Year 3019 of the Third Age
“For some reason, this issue of meteors has become an issue for the dinosaurs,” said Penceasaurus Rex.
“Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.” -President Pence, 30 seconds later.
“For some reason, this issue of the horrific, reawakened old ones has become a paramount issue for the planet.” President Pence, 2018
“For some reason, this issue of bear maulings has emerged as a paramount issue for our fur trapping party’s guide.” - Major Michael Pence, circa 1823
“Why doth the peasantry fret so o’er this ‘Black Death’? ” ~Lord Pence, c. 1350
“For some reason, this issue of Native Americans has become a paramount issue for General George Armstrong Custer.” - Lt. Mike Pence, at the outbreak of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
“For some reason, this issue of smallpox has become a paramount issue for the Natives.” Colonist Pence, 1616
“For some reason, this issue of icebergs has become a paramount issue for the passengers.” Captain Pence, 1912
I mean, it’s only going fuck over our kids and grandkids, amirite? Honestly, who cares, right Mike?
“For some reason, this issue of atomic bombs has become a paramount issue for the Japanese.” - Mike Pence, circa 1945
I’m fucking tired of living in a country where the NRA has such a fucking stranglehold on our politicians that I have to be worried about my kid getting shot at school because there are so many fucking guns and such a culture of violence. And there is no end in sight.
I’m HOH, so much that living in the hearing world is so difficult sometimes that I don’t want to get out of bed. I was mainstreamed to read lips only. No sign. Thanks parents and teachers! I was raised to please your hearing world. I am sitting here with tears streaming down my eyes right now reading some of the…
Yea I’m extremely HoH. Mostly Deaf. Even with hearing aids I cannot follow a speaking conversation unless it’s family members that I’m use to lip reading. I always get a CC device at the theater and coincidentally, when I took my daughters to see Beauty and the Beast, the device didn’t work. My eldest daughter had to…