You are insufficiently pious

I’m growing more and more uncomfortable with the seemingly increasing progressive notion that people’s backgrounds must be fully delved into and punishment doled out for things they did years and years ago, retroactive, permanent punishment. It strikes me as so anti-liberal.

In her defense, she probably just assumed the ball was dirty dishes, and the net was a kitchen sink.

The outrage over this is exhausting. Predator? Jerry Sandusky and Jared were predators. A slight age difference? Not the same. The age of consent is what, like 15 in some states? The handwringing is just annoying, get over it.

We get it. Now go away.

She’s not underage.

Oh, fuck off. Everybody does or has done this in private. It’s called gossip, or “hot or not”, or whatever. This is ridiculously overblown.

I’ve noticed this too, more and more people conflate misogyny with good old fashioned sexism. Not to defend these idiots, but “misogyny” as in the hatred of women is not what I was detecting when listening to their dumb ass convo.

Not really? They didn't work together, neither were under the same roof or the same organization.

Even in private time, between other people I trust?

Are they limiting her professionally? Are they intruding on her though?

“I felt incredulous that people who are in uniform, on the job, and trusted with protecting the public could express so much contempt for women,” she said. “The misogyny is horrifyingly casual. How can such attitudes not affect their police work?

Taking 377 words to get to your point isn’t exactly great, either.

No, I totally get the intention, and it’s a tactic I used to use in my own writing until various beta readers and critique partners kept pointing out that it’s visually confusing more often than not. I appreciate that the intent is to force you to read/hear the words with the exact rhythm the writer wishes you to.…

“Terrible Writing About Hurricane Katrina: A Scourge Unto Itself”

Sentences broken up with periods are incredibly jarring to read. My brain judders and goes nnnnnnngghhhh when it tries to parse something like “People. Literally. Died. because of this name.”

Pot. Kettle. Black.

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