American Girl Dolls were “too expensive” for me to have one when I was young but Santa brought my youngest two sisters each one 5 years later... I honestly think I still have a complex about that.

I got Molly for Christmas one year and she was my absolute favorite toy ever

Only friends are likewise marginalised? There are plenty of ways in which I’m marginalised as a black woman, but I didn’t think that made me a consolation friend. Wtf?

Oh man I can’t tell you how many tween girl actors I heard recite the opening monologue from Man in the Moon Marigolds at auditions, theater camps, etc. “He told me to look at my hand...” “Atom. Atom. What a beautiful word.”

Honest question: is it also because it’s their final act of control?

I think the story not being told here is that somebody is tipping off the press on the Big Stuff now. Between dropping the dime on the Stormy Daniels payoff and now this, somebody is going Scorched Earth on Trump’s fat ass.

They kill themselves because they are publicly humiliated and in prison. They have no access to their lives of comfort, security, and power. They don’t care about their victims or access to their victims. They care about their own egos.

I dont think you have any idea of how much this is affecting me right now, the story of the mamas and babies crying for each other. I mean... I’ve heard a cow cry and it’s.. ugh... it’s the worst sound ever. I can’t even imagine how awful that would be to see. I am legitimately rethinking my life and dietary choices.…

he published a book called Straight James/Gay James, which included musings about identity and sexuality, including lines like, “Hello woman, I’d like to be you./Not because I don’t enjoy my own man/ Body, my man strength, my man looks, / My man mind, but because I love yours/Even more.”

You have respect for her position but you don’t like that she’s not nice to a pedophile rapist. OK.

That is awful. :(

I completely agree. I think the judge saw the gross miscarriage of justice happening with MSU and USAG and used her unique powers to give a survivors a platform to enable change. She is the advocate these girls needed but never got.

This judge deserves her own gold medal for opening the floodgates here. I think these statements en masse have been what prompted Simone to speak up and therefore the closing of the ranch, and then the listing of John Geddert’s, and the resignations of the USAG board members. I hope the tide continues to roll in, and…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Organizations like these genuinely do not care if people in their system are being sexually abused. In fact, it’s all just part of a larger spectrum of abuse that is implicit to the very institution — proof that their “system” is working.

This is disgusting.

Also the giant bottle of ibuprofen a little further back.  

Yeah, she’s such a dog. *eyeroll*

When I was a teenager, I thought Vice was really cool and it was my favourite read. So much so that I still have The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll and 10 Years of Do’s and Dont’s somewhere on my bookshelf. The barrage of misogyny I internalized through those years shocks me now, but what I find more…

The bottle of store brand Tums sitting just past the phone sums this year up totally.

I binged on this series in the last week or so, after reading the main character had been diagnosed with BPD. Then I wrote about what it is like to see a diagnosis I still struggle with having reflected on television: https://medium.com/badvocals/borderline-reflected-7515469db8a0