Yeah, there’s never any really good terms—my husband and I were together for eight years before we married, and like you, were living together. We were basically a married couple. Calling him my “boyfriend” made the relationship feel trite, and “spouse” or “partner” always sounded odd to me, but I wouldn’t begrudge…

I’ve never understood how people don’t get that.

I’m comfortable using pro-abortion or pro-abortion rights, but I’ve always personally liked pro-choice because I feel it encompasses more of what I want to see—I want women to be able to safely, comfortably, and without fear make the choice they want to make. If a person wants to carry a pregnancy to term and have a…

Might be diegetic/diegesis versus non-diegetic?

That’s what caught me. It’s not “I want to meet someone with whom I have great conversations and a real physical spark,” it’s checkboxes next to “intelligent” and “gorgeous”.

Same. My decision to abort was without any handwringing or trauma. I never felt bad about it. But for years, I felt bad about not feeling bad.

Knowing what to do also includes regularly miscarrying embryos with genetic defects, too!

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:

One of my more exciting visits to my infusion clinic involved watching a guy hang out with a very specialized leech container while he waited for someone to sign for them!

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.