We also don’t choose to be born citizens, and when we are part of an oppressed group here and disagree with our crappy government, it’s not realistic financially or paperwork wise to leave. My best friend just moved to New Zealand with her husband who’s been in the US for 20 years but was ready to go back to be near…

I mean she doesn’t get called “scarecrow” or “horse face.” That’s the point of the comment I was responding to. If a woman is heavy or not fuckable enough the dragging goes straight to vicious attacks on looks, not on bigotry or stupidity. Hence the article pointing out that there was plenty of material for Chelsea to…

Yup. Tomi Lahren can be as racist, sexist, and bigoted as she wants and some people will call her out on it, but she’s generically/ conventionally attractive so she’ll never be as viciously attacked. Same with Elizabeth Hasselbeck.

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…