I can understand why people might have an issue with her doing this. I guess because I processed it as her doing it for her own emotional health after feeling pressured to keep up the illusion, rather than a vindictive thing, that it feels acceptable to me.

Why does Trump need dumb trucks when he has access ample access to transportation that hauls his dumb ass wherever he goes?

Yes. And yet it’s just another thing that makes no actual difference to his fanatics. I just to publicly share articles covering issues like this, until I realized I was wasting my time. Aint no one who voted for him got time for facts, talk of double standards, or the dangers to American citizens, immigrants, or the…

I was familiar with this story, and have mentioned it to my husband. “Sorkin is using Josh to litigate a fight he actually had, painting the people he argued with in the worst light, and giving them no chance for rebuttal. It’s not cute. In fact, it’s a bit unhinged and very petty.”

I have to check out that podcast!

What gives with me? I don’t doubt one bit he’s a feminist. I think that because he’s a feminist that it probably bothers him a lot that some of his actions don’t align with his beliefs. Whether he intended to our not, he hurt his wife, and seems to have cheated with women he had power over.

Thanks, Mouse, you make great points. I questioned my use of the word “abuse” and should have been a bit more careful. I think cheating on your spouse is abusive, but it was wrong for be to phrase it in a way that lumped it in with actions that make a woman fear for her life or deliberately tear her apart mentally and…

I think for a lot of people what their brain believes and what their genitals wants are completely opposed to one another, and this becomes their personal battle.

The funny part is she was not from Minnesota. Just salty over election results and writing about a state she wasn’t from, not remembering her comments applied to me.

Thanks for the clarification, which is very interesting.

“I was told as a kid you don’t talk shit about your partner online because if you were a couple getting divorced it can be used against you in court.”

No, I think she is saying she has PTSD because she spent 20 years with a guy who turned out to have lied to her so often, and so successfully, that she has to question if they ever had an authentic moment. Every time she remembers him having to work late, while she believed him completely at the time, she has to ask…

I’m pretty sure I recall Howard Stern telling Eliza Dushku it was clear Whedon wanted to bang her.

Remember the time the woman told Sam to stop being sexist douchebag, and Sam went and got Ainsley to attest to him being a great guy, and Ainsley told her that she needed to worry about more important stuff? Amd even though it was the actress Emily Procter speaking, she sounded just like an entitled dickhead creator…

There’s a reason why #OwnVoices is a thing in the book world. If you’re getting most of your stories about women from men, about people of color from white people, about the disabled from people who do not live with that disability, about the LGBTQA community from a cis-gender heterosexual, there is a big fucking…

I just found out it was fucking Jayne* who named Gamergate Gamergate. How did I not know this?

I didn’t take her remarks as a fuck you, which a lot of people seem to be alleging, but as a “Hey, these aren’t my secrets to keep for you, and I won’t live a less honest life in order to help shoulder your burdens, and bolster your reputation. I’m divesting myself of this weight, because I don’t want to be my…

I have a deep and abiding love for Al Franken, dating back to watching SNL when I was way too young to be watching SNL. Plus he can draw the United States by memory. Plus he’s my senator.

“So you take her word as is? Not even a bit of skepticism?”

I support his wife in sharing her story, and I imagine it was very empowering to let go of the need to keep secrets and lies that really belong to someone else. I’ve been there — going along with initially small lies out of love and loyalty, and then realizing how big they’ve grown over time.