Mariah seems like my least favorite type of person

But in 2016 she wasn’t substantially to the right of the electorate on gay marriage. Neither was she when she was in the Senate. Go look at the link I provided. Over the course of the last 20 years a lot of people have changed their opinion on that issue. That’s why gay marriage has gone from being majority…

Yeah maybe someday there will be a flawless candidate, and we can all ride our own personal unicorn to the polls. Or maybe someday you will grow the fuck up. I wonder which will come first?

In other good news, Good Governor Terry Mac in VA vetoed a bill to defund Panned Parenthood in the Commonwealth.

Why does he look foolish? He’s doing a nice thing for a person he obviously likes a lot. I appreciate it when my friends make an effort to make me feel special, even if it comes across as corny.

eh. i mean they have for sure crossed over a line of decency many times, but in general, she took a family that had no real talents, a daughter who was possibly going to be exploited by a sex tape and turned that ship around. build a dynasty and made every one of them enough money that they can all live in lala land…

So I’m going to be That Girl* (sorry) but it isn’t actually a Lead Belly original. It is a 19th century American traditional folk song with no known writer. The version that Kurt did for Unplugged was a cover of the most popular and well known oversions that Lead Belly recorded (he recorded many throughout his career)…

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines...

45 last October. I was 2 months pregnant with my first kid with I heard on the radio that he had killed himself. I recall a lot of barfing.

Last week, I was talking to my first kid, who is now 22 herself (the age I was when I got pregnant), and graduating from college in 3 months. I told her that actually, life itself…

The fact that Kurt Cobain was an unapologetic, very vocal feminist deserves a mention. It was very unusual for the time. He was amazing.

Oh GOD I still get chills from his vocals on Where Did You Sleep Last Night. So good.

He said sexual maturity. I was sexually mature at 10. I had exactly the same body at 10 as I did at 25. He would probably have identified with the men who hit on me starting when I was about 11 or the men who screamed sexual shit out of their car windows starting around the same time, or the men who grabbed my ass…

I have similar memories. Also some memories of kids in the same age bracket, but going way beyond typical age-appropriate experiences. I didn’t judge at the time (in fact, I felt stunted and jealous by comparison) but in retrospect it is so clear there was shady stuff happening, and outright abuse in a few cases.

Men are afraid of being treated the same way they treat women.

Ick now I worry I am on some sort of watch list for having just googled “ephebophilia.”

It’s not. But that’s the hypocrisy. Women are sexual objects pretty much up for grabs as soon as men say so. But boys? Not the same. 

This type of thinking makes me shiver. I got my first period in 5th grade, so while my body was (apparently) “good to go,” my brain was still pretty consumed with pogs and friendship bracelets.

The good old “ephebophilia” defense.

Imagine not being biracial but black and dark skinned from the north - and your parents move you to the south. For years I've been made fun of for speaking like a white person, liking white music, dating white guys. Not only do I get this criticism from black people, but from white people as well. Why can't people…

As Katie’s first cousin, I’m just gonna say that I know why she’s very insistent on her white identity (at least I think I do), and I hope someday she gets to tell that story.