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Phylis Teen
phylis-teen

Exactly. They’re purposely creating a mythology of evil and secrecy surrounding Planned Parenthood. It’s the Richard Gere gerbil story affect. Tactics like this unfortunately work on uninformed, scared, closed minded people. Example: One of my employees is El Salvadoran/American, early twenties, pretty conservative, a

Makes me think of that John Oliver “Fuck 2016" season ending montage. Remember how crappy 2016 was? We couldn’t wait for 2017, and it turned out to be worse. I think we’ve just entered dark times for a while to come.

Exactly. See my post about dating white men who get angry with me/try to condescendingly talk over me for calmly explaining my actual experience as a black woman. It doesn’t matter what tone or words you use. They. Don’t Want. To. Listen. To. Other. Perspectives. They don’t want to hear about how they have it easier

Um, this was the 90's. Tell that to Ellen in the 90's. She was raked over the coals and almost completely destroyed.

Like how I calmly explained with gritted teeth to my white ex boyfriend why it wasn’t the best idea to wear my natural Afro to a corporate job interview? And he kept arguing that he preferred my natural hair and that “he’s always himself, I should just be myself?” Totally unaware of my experience as a black woman in a

I took a free intensive six week self defense course in college. Thought it would be good to have the skills and for fitness. A week after the class ended my roommate and I went to Paris for spring break ( we didn’t want to do the typical Cabo/Palm Beach drunken fest.) Our second night there we were walking back to

I guess the answer is to go back to the Shakespeare days when only men were actors and dressed up like women. Problem solved: no women trying to navigate clearly constructed predation to become actresses, and “feminists” don’t have to complain about women upholding the patriarchy by selling their beauty to be on a big

Exactly. I’ve used this analogy here before. No cop or judge anywhere would say “oh it’s not grand theft because you obviously couldn’t help yourself when you saw that beautiful Porsche convertible parked on the street. If the owner didn’t want it stolen, why didn’t they park it in a high security garage?” Or “oh it’s

I have two friends whose dads and brothers raped them from age 4 to teens. They are irreparably damaged. So they clearly should have had their gaurd up and locked their bedroom doors because men, even family members, obviously will take sex from you. Fuck her indeed.

So I should have known not to let my boss at my first job out of college close our office door because obviously he was going to try something? My mom shouldn’t have gone to pick up her term paper from her professor because he was obviously going to try to rape her? My sister should have not taken swim lessons in

Ugggh

Like “Snakes on a Plane.” It was originally written as a serious action/suspense film with a different name, but the script was so ridiculous that halfway through the studio decided to just go full meta “supposed to be bad” camp. That’s when they purposely reached out to Samuel L Jackson.

I’ve had two exes who were emotionally abusive, controlling, and manipulative. Treated me like absolute crap behind closed doors, but charming in public. Every time I’d wake up and break things off they’d wait like three weeks, send self deprecating “I’ve been crying” messages, and smooth talk/gaslight their way back

^THIS. Hence BIOchemistry. Everything in nature is made up of chemical bonds. These naturopathic hacks don’t get that they’re actually contradicting themselves when they talk about healing with amino acids in food etc. This is why before modern advancements in depression/anxiety medication more people were likely to

Yup. I’m naturally thin with a huge appetite and fast metabolism. If I order a burger and fries for lunch at work the women gawk at me and snidely say how it must be so lucky I can eat “real” food and not gain weight. If I’m feeling bloated and hung over after a long night out and order salmon with a kale salad, it’s

It’s like a Stranger Things set.

Ding ding ding with “emotional world view.” Ignorant people operate on emotion, which is why we’ve had things happen like brilliant scientists burned at the stake for suggesting the existence of the universe (when people used to think the earth was the center of existence). It’s uncomfortable emotionally for people

Exactly. One of my friends lost his dad to lung cancer when my friend was 10 years old. It was a long, painful death and he’s got a lot of trauma surrounding it. My best friend just lost her mom to skin cancer. My friend is in her early 20's. Her mom was beautiful and healthy and it was sudden and unexpected. My ex

Yeah a coworker just found out her ex husband and his new wife are having a baby. Her ex husband is 51, his new wife is 48. My coworker is 47 and has a 15 year old son with the ex husband and kind of can’t believe he wants to do it all over again. But peeps do whatever makes them happy.

Can we stop this dangerous myth that there’s some magical formula that keeps certain women from being raped or sexually harassed? Men don’t care who your parents are, how much money you have, or what you look like when they decide they’re going to exert power over you or that they will get sex from you. There are