My husband and I went to the movies this weekend and saw 3 trailers in a row (one particularly bad one with Bruce Willis) where white men grabbed guns and bewailed not taking care of their family. I winced: it seemed so woefully childish against the reality of people losing their loved ones not only at a concert but…

I think that it’s a failing on various institutions who either won’t come out and provide evidence that it makes you less safe or can’t because, like the CDC, they aren’t allowed. When people are “saved” by guns, it’s not the fucking gun, it’s the training under duress that cops and body guards are capable of, and…

That’s why I really liked the band’s humble response when they admitted that there was no time for guns or for good marksmanship. There was only time to hopefully run away and to hope the *trained* people would know what they were doing.

On NPR a day or two ago they interviewed the gun show owner who sold the guns to the Las Vegas shooter, and he said that the shooter passed the preliminary questions, which mostly focused on why are you buying this, and the acceptable response was “to protect my family.” That’s a powerful narrative that gets…

Luckily, I got out. Not everyone does or can, and free therapy through my grad program really helped me. But I just hate when people push. My (non) relationship with your parents is none of your business, semi-stranger! ;)

I got tired of wedding convo, too. I was a super disinterested planner (depression/school/being totally broke) so it was monotonous so the pregnancy thing just broke me. I love my husband but we agree that our wedding was *not* the best day we’ve ever had and we wouldn’t go through a wedding again for a million bucks,…

I developed this habit when people started pressuring me non-stop about why I didn’t talk to my parents (who abused me). Initially, I’d try to just say I wasn’t close, but after they would pry more I’d look them in the eye and say “they beat me for 24 years.” That made it stop. Their horrified faces were sadly…

Not five minutes after the wedding ceremony, my new MIL whined to the officiant that she didn’t have grand kids yet. I sort of snarled at her and she dropped it, but ffs, we just got married, and I was in the middle of a dissertation. My husband is of the mind that people who relentlessly ask about kids have nothing…

That’s my major disappointment with Hilary, who I really wanted to be president, but it seemed like she was courting the center. Even her choice for VP was emblematic of this. There is nothing inherent wrong with centrism, but democrats are choosing to woo Republicans rather than embrace a side that really wants…

Seriously. People in bipolar manic states make questionable choices. My mother has bipolar and watching her go off meds and have manic episodes taught me that mental illness isn’t something that people can control and often they have little understanding of what’s going on. I seriously doubt Kanye understood what he…

I’ve been teaching college since 2008. I’d love to tell Sessions that most of my students come into college with already established, passionate liberal views. I let them write their last paper on anything that is close to their heart and half write on climate change and many write on the need for prison and education…

people making these comments have no idea what it feels like to be a victim of domestic abuse. If they did, they’d feel like complete and total wastes of space right now.

Not to mention she’s now a domestic abuse victim and people on this thread are bashing her for getting with “losers. These are the same people who would, of course, be aghast if *anyone else* made these comments but themselves. Not sure why people on this site trash women for their body all while trashing other…

And when these people have kids, and believe ice pops will cure their kid of meningitis (as it happened a while ago), this gets dangerous.

You really nailed it. I also have bad anxiety and PTSD and I can’t tell you how many people have told me to hold “crystals that will ground me” or some other kind of bullshit but then seem aghast when I tell them that the greatest thing that ever helped was Cognitive Behavioral therapy because therapists are “quacks.”…

Not to mention the idea that all elderly people are conservative is just wrong. My great-grandparents, who had seen the depression, passionately hated W. and were in favor of those programs that helped the US emerge out of the depression. I see the problem being rampant sexism already prevalent in our culture (and…

Not to mention Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and, while not perfect, the wonderfully weird Science of Sleep

Not really sure why anyone thought that she would rein in her father. She’s been raised in total privilege by a man who has never had a charitable bone in his decaying, bloated, stinking body. The idea that she was going to really advocate for climate change, when she’s never had to advocate for any real issue in her…

Not to mention that after crowing about “ethics” for 4 years, after Trump got in office, when his constituents pointed out the MANY ethical issues, he just shrugged them off and looked profoundly stupid.

My rescue doggy was supposed to have all his teeth removed in a dental surgery because he was so mistreated by his original owner, but the vet saved all but his front ones so he looks like a cute doggy vampire now! <3 Within an hour of surgery he was running around and eating/drinking better than he’s been capable of…