I so get the dark humor! Dark, so very dark, and appropriate for these times.

I have not commented in more than an year, probably. I am, more than probably, in the grays. But I just cannot help myself when it comes to reproductive rights: I grew up in a former communist country where abortion was illegal (for population control purposes) until the regime fell. I know, from my mother and from my…

I had no idea, to be honest. I was so happy to leave all of that behind, that I preferred not to look into it at all. Right now, it seems like a bad idea. If we don’t remember our history (personal or universal), we are doomed to repeat it.

Oh, I’ve seen this shit before. I know that Twitler is often compared to, well.... Hitler, and with Mussolini, but he has much in common with so many dictators across other totalitarian regimes.

My 20's song was:

Do we all feel the same? Then, why doesn’t the rest feel the same?

No no no no no no no. I hate this year. This is too soon and we have not yet healed from so much pain. David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman, our hopes and dreams, our future for many of us. Yes, I realize it’s callous to equate people’s lives with people’s deaths, but I am referring to symbols. I don’t think good people…

I can barely remember yesterday. I could not hear my alarm clock (never happened before) and was tempted to cancel my classes because I could not stop tearing up. I felt hopeless and disappointed and defeated. Then I realized my students will be all the more so. I have some amazing African-American and Asian-American…

Suicide, self-exile, anything, as long as lily white America is fine. BTW, I am lily white myself (I’m not American, so an immigrant in disguise, though I might be the “right kind” since I am from Eastern Europe like his wife. I’m a 2 and way too smart to count - sorry for the not-so-humble brag/ self-deprecation,…

:( Sorry. My mom’s excuse is “I’m too old for this shit! But if you do come, plan on leaving soon. Because, again, I am too old for this shit!” I think it’s a smart move.

I’m an only child, so I just found the brother-sister mistake funny. But in your case, I would have probably gone ballistic too.

My ex-bf and I were always mistaken for brother and sister. As were my mom and dad. And they had a crappy marriage. Like my relationship with my ex. I currently don’t look anything like my husband whom I adore and think of as my soulmate. Morale: don’t marry your brother. Or anyone looking like he could be your…

Thank you for your answer. I guess I have the advantage of being thousands of miles away from my family (ie. different continents). Still, while I always spent Christmas with my mom and dad, and sometimes my paternal grandparents, we avoided our extended family like the plague. I remember we used to spend Christmas…

Thank you for your answer. I guess I can relate to wanting that idea of family. I’m fortunate because my mom is truly awesome (well, it took a while until she became openly feminist) and my dad was really open-minded. But my grandma is a woman-hater (all women were below her level, she was the greatest) and I still…

Yes, I’ve been talking to many of my friends here and you are indeed lucky. I’m happy for you, especially since you will get rid of the racist stepfather too.

Cthulhu 2016! The strange sound they picked in Northern Canada gives me so much hope.

But, but, but, but, he went in there as a manly man, with his manly penis manly saluting and advancing the manly rights of all manly men. /s just to be safe :/

Is in this case “conversion” a euphemism for “suicide” or “annihilation” ?

You, internet stranger, I really understand. I posted upthread that I don’t get why so many Americans spend their Thanksgiving with their families after the families voted against their own best interests. Friendsgiving sounds lovely.  

I have a dumb question: I am not American and therefore don’t get all the Thanksgiving spirit thing, but why do you people go home to spend it with families that voted for the Trumpistador? I mean, I get that people want to see their dear ones, but after all this, I would really feel the need to punish them somehow,…