Yeah, I’m kind of amazed by the “Clinton supporters are so condescending” argument. When I was trying to make up my mind between Clinton and Sanders in the primary, absolutely every Clinton supporter I talked to was polite and thoughtful and wanted to explain what they liked about Clinton, while a significant…

I’m really okay with the Democratic candidate and his or her supporters not attempting to win over people who think bigoted slurs are appropriate. Having a big tent is all well and good, but that big tent should never have room for people who demean and dehumanize other people under it. You can go ahead and vote for…

I promise I am actually sympathetic and that sounds super exhausting, but the defiant bandaid-eating and dumping out of imaginary tea both made me laugh. It is amazing how creative toddlers can be about figuring out ways to be little shits.

I’m broke as hell, so I’ll almost certainly have to wait until spring, but I’m definitely adding that to my “things to try” list! “See the Grand Canyon” is one of those things on everybody’s bucket list and I haven’t done it yet, so “see the Grand Canyon, find out if being in a desert region means I can wake up…

Huh. Fellow fibro patient here (among several other health problems, sigh), and I’ve always lived in relatively humid places, so I’ve never connected humidity to my symptoms. I wonder if that’s relevant for me, too. Since I’m already trying to figure out if there’s a way I can escape my red state in the coming years,…

Are you me? Because...yeah. Same boat. There was a protest in my city today, and I wanted to go, but instead I spent the whole day in bed hiding under the covers. I keep hoping that at some point the part of me that let me survive all the shit I’ve been through will assert itself and I’ll be able to fight back and…

In the wake of this election, “Women’s rights are human rights” seems apt.

Seriously. I also love how many times in the last few days I’ve heard Trump supporters respond to things like “Trump said that Mexicans are rapists and that an American judge couldn’t be trusted to do his job fairly because of his Mexican heritage” with “Oh, so that’s bad, but saying that people who agree with those…

How on earth is Trump being elected relevant to choosing to support businesses whose ideals align with your own and avoid ones who donate to causes or people you oppose, and why on earth would doing so be a sign that someone needs to “grow up”? I’m pretty sure most adults prefer that their money go towards things they…

There is no way I could describe the worst weeks (plural, sadly) of my life without triggering the shit out of people, and I don’t think anyone needs that right now. Not least because one part of why this election has been so devastating to me is that seeing millions and millions of people unambiguously demonstrate…

Jesus fucking Christ. I can’t imagine seeing that “do you know these kids” handout and having any reaction other than “What the fuck is wrong with you, who the fuck cares who they are, they’re kids, it’s Halloween, give them some fucking fun-size chocolate bars and shut the fuck up,” but the last few days have made it…

I don’t think the faithless elector plan could work, but I think there’s something to be said for this petition getting attention and signatures anyway. Not because I think there’s any realistic chance that it will cause the party loyalists who make up the electoral college to flip, but because it draws attention to…

Yup. I am sick to death of the “I’m not a racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, Islamophobic jerk who wants people with preexisting conditions to be denied healthcare and approves of sexual assault! I’m just someone who’s entirely okay with racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, Islamophobia, sick people being denied…

Given that we just elected a guy endorsed by the KKK, it would appear the answer to your serious question is “dunno, we’ll let you know when that happens.”

...I have no idea how you got the idea that I “finally realized America sucks two days ago” from my comment. I am very much aware that America sucks for pretty much anyone who’s not a straight, cis, able-bodied white dude, a group to which I also do not belong. I had hoped we as a country were at least better than…

Yep. I’m impressed that you exercised. I didn’t even manage to get out of bed until something like 5 PM. I’ve just been alternately crying and staring blankly into space. I want to wake up and find out that this was all a very elaborate nightmare.

Booze, anxiety medication, and a lot of crying.

Right, because the wave of racist backlash that catapulted Trump to victory would TOTALLY have worked in favor of the first Jewish president. Please. If Jesus Christ himself had been the Democratic candidate, he would have lost. This election was not decided by whether or not the Democratic candidate was good enough,…

Go fuck yourself. I have preexisting health conditions, and I am very sick. I’m going to lose access to healthcare next year when the ACA is repealed, so I won’t be able to take any kind of pill, including the ones that are keeping me alive. This is not academic for a lot of us, and we are more than entitled to our…

Yeah. And, conversely, there are a whole lot of deeply miserable people in the cities within red states right now. I wish there were a way for all of the urban areas of the country to secede. We could be like Vatican City or Lesotho, except instead of one little dot surrounded by another country, we’d be a whole bunch…