I know that I shouldn’t be staggered, but the repetitive, dangerous, totally uninterested ignorance spouted about this subject by lawmakers and advocates just....I don’t even have anything to say.  It’s shocking and horrifying.

What blows my mind is that so many people can’t seem to distinguish between it being someone’s fault that a thing happened, and it being their responsibility to help fix it.

Thank you for sharing it, then—anger certainly makes you eloquent. I had to ask because it just struck a chord in me like all good poetry should. <3

Is this yours, or from something?  Google has failed me!  

I’m not a particular fan of Joe Biden, and am not particularly interested in a presidential run from him. I certainly agree that he’s made people uncomfortable over the years with inappropriate physical contact (and that it falls far more often on women than on men, which speaks to a lot of frustrating, unfair…

Southpaw here, and I only use the right shift key. Really odd to become suddenly hyper-aware of my typing habits.

Nothing deep to say here, but I enjoyed reading this piece. It resonated in a way that was both pleasant and sad. I also lost a friendship over the past few years that had been particularly deep and powerful for me, and in some respects there’s still a bit of grief there.

The wording also sounds quite over-encompassing to me, as well--it specifies that the person “resist with a weapon,” but what about the likely many situations where a person either doesn’t have a weapon on them, even if they own one (particularly relevant considering the vast majority of sexual assault comes from…

Always enjoy your posts, and had to dig through my YouTube history to find this, which I think dovetails into your point about pushback to criticism:

I always found that students would remember “the arrow affected the aardvark” even years later.  :)

That’s how I’m feeling. I would honestly love to eat my words, though, if it’s fully CG, because that’s impressive!

That and because we as audience/viewers/consumers of media often blur the idea of “work” when it comes to creative work versus the office job or other workplace.

I’m have absolutely no interest in astrology myself, and I generally agree with everything you’ve said, but I will say that in my experience there are a ton of people who don’t really believe in astrology (that the placement of stars affects one’s personality and lives writ large), but they enjoy the ritual or find it…

Holy cow, I’d never heard this and it’s an absolutely fantastic reading! Thank you so much for the suggestion!

While I don’t disagree with you overall, I actually mentally decided that my Destiny character[s] are mute and their ghosts speak for them, since they’re rather emotionally and mentally connected.  It’s how all of the dialogue seemed to play out anyway, and other ghosts in the game weren’t particularly talkative.  It…

I am one of those Loud People who just escalate in volume, especially when I get excited, without realizing it.  (In appropriate places, though.  Just loud.)  My husband and friends have taken to just saying “Inside voice, inside voice!” which is a nice way for me to know I’ve gotten loud without knowing, haha.

I know nothing about fashion and have absolutely no eye for it, but every time I see this look, I have the same reaction. Like, this just looks bad. And not in a haute couture runway, “this is a weird and interesting thing that I don’t like at all but there is sure a bold and weird vision behind it” way. Just in a…

No joke, my husband was shocked, SHOCKED at the results when he asked me to put some concealer on him to cover a pimple when we were attending a wedding.

I have to get a lot of infusions/blood draws/IVs/etc because I have Crohn’s disease, and about a year prior to going on immunosupressant medication, I’d been beefing up on all my vaccines, making sure I was prepped for everything just in case.  The first time I got a bunch, I was like....holy shit, these needles feel…

Generally speaking, the elderly and the immunocompromised do get their flu shots! :) (There’s even an specific flu shot for those who are 65+, and we immunocompromised people can usually get the shots, but not the nasal spray variety, as that one is a live virus rather than the normal dead virus shots.)