My explanation is simpler.

Woke: A state of heightened awareness to reality, as in “wake up and smell the coffee, sheeple!” On this site, refers to the political realities of race, gender, income, and sexuality.

Google can tell you.

If you have to ask, you are neither, amigo.

It’s actually quite tasty.
No, really. Really!

What if the author chose not to link her identity with her writing precisely to avoid that kind of analysis? This insistence that an author’s biography can reveal deep and meaningful truths about their work tends to result in the pigeon-holing artists who are not white men.

Because as journalistic policy, opposing the reporting of the true identity of a globally famous pseudonymous person is insane.

My dog’s name is Todd, dammit and he’s a good boy.

Hyder told me one of his better characters was still active, and getting published (a male character, as it happens). I asked him to tell me where. He politely refused.

For those of you looking for it, here’s the passage in question:

Is it just me or are a lot of countries (including the US) going through a more conservative movement/backlash compared to like, 5-10 years ago?

This wouldn’t be happening if it was men who got pregnant. I’m not being misandrist, just being fucking honest.

I just... I...wow. Abuse is beyond any socioeconomic/racial boundaries. It occurs at all levels, and a woman’s reasoning for staying varies from wanting to keep the family in tact to financial concerns to shit we cannot even imagine, because we are not HER.

I also had a gaslighting, unemployed, asshole bf who started asking me to marry him when it was clear that I was about to dip. Idealized he was trying to use marriage as a trap to keep me. Glad you got out!

Before you get married a relationship is a lot more tenuous. It’s much easier to dissolve and so people are always aware of the fragility and they work harder to keep up appearances. But once you get married it’s all about the maintenance, you aren’t trying to get to a specific level by making sure to do things…

I think (at least in my case) that sometimes you don’t know that there are implicit expectations from someone one once you are married that weren’t there before. I’m dismayed by some judgemental comments- I was one of those people because my husband had accepted a job across the country and didn’t tell me until after…

My ex and I were together for 8 years before we got married and then it lasted less 6 months. My ex REALLY wanted to get married, and I .. really didn’t care either way so I went along with it. And there was a lot of “no, you can’t spend your own money / have friends / make plans without checking in with me.” - Not…

I assume it’s because women are not “stuck” in marriages as much as they used to be. 

Met new boyfriend after breaking up with my boyfriend of 7 years. Whirlwind courtship, I fell hard, he made me feel appreciated and so loved. 5 months in, he’s talking marriage. He moved in with me after Thanksgiving. Christmas, he proposed and I accepted.