He stated that many good cops are “afraid” to be speak up b/c they will lose their jobs and the ability to provide for their families.

Some of us DID take it seriously. Some of us practically screamed bloody blue murder and the rest of you patted us patronizingly on the head and told us to hush - we were overreacting.

med student here - answers in order:

Wait, I think I get it. Calling yourself trash is how men deal with the fact that they actually like patriarchy and misogyny because it benefits them. So they show shame and that covers up for the fact that they still want dominance. If you say “I’m trash” and do a little performative feminism, you can avoid changing…

Why can’t white people just LIKE some shit? Why do they have to invent a word and pretend to be an ethnicity or race they are not?

I wouldn’t be surprised if this applied more generally to shows that center around women or people of color even if they aren’t overtly political. If the studio head yawns and can’t make it through a few episodes and that has an effect on what’s cancelled beyond straight ratings, it ends up mattering a lot who those…

So he didn’t like it? But he didn’t watch it? This definitely makes me wonder about other shows with feminist messages that got canceled. Was it about the actual show itself or the misogynistic studio head not liking the message?

Ehhh depends on the person. I’m pretty susceptible to new speech patterns and if you plop me in England for a week I’ll start talking a little differently: not totally British but not quite my American northeast either. In contrast, a friend of mine spent six years in Ireland and hardly changed his way of speaking.

Eh. I don’t want to read subtitles the entire time during an action movie

Fox News: Angrily Wrong!

It’s for other people’s convenience.

I’m pretty sure, just being Chadwick Boseman, makes a point to white supremacy.

I think you need to read the full amendment, bud.

So everyone in prison for killing their wives for the insurance money are actually mentally ill? You realize humans are evil and conniving and perfectly sane men have been doing this for centuries? Just because you don’t understand how someone could be so cold and violent doesn’t mean it gets attributed to mental…

Yeah, if this is what they’re going with now, “mental health issues” I want receipts on these fuckers. What was this asshole’s diagnosis: bipolar, schizophrenic, depressed? Who was his doctor? What meds or therapy was he trying? Why didn’t that work?

I think calling these things “mental health issues” is an effective way to “other” the people who do shit like this instead of accepting that it could stem from dangerously common and societally reinforced thoughts and beliefs.

Also, something about how Muslims are bad because of how “they” treat “their” women but you know, white guy beating his wife and child is A-OK!

Apparently, Muslims never suffer from mental health issues. When we do something bad, it’s entirely of our own volition. When a white person does something bad, it’s a defect in that otherwise pristine, gorgeous brain of theirs.

““very deranged individual [with] a lot of problems over a long period of time.””

But enough about the President. 

It’s not a guns situation, though. He was mentally ill so he could have just as easily used throwing stars, a pick-em-up truck, or illegal immigrants to kill all those people. It’s just that an AR-15 was easier to pick up than a library card. A mere coincidence, surely.