One of my favorite quotes from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri:

I’m so sorry to hear all that. That sounds like such a terrifying situation for you and your mother. And that man sounds fucking awful. You did what you had to, and in many other situations, calling the police is the only option for intervention.

Extremely.

One reason among a multitude why calling the police was rarely considered the first or best option when I worked in the domestic violence field. We used to survey callers about their experiences with the police in DV situations, and I would be hard pressed to recall a single response that said, “It was great and the…

Right. The way they say most of those “negative traits” are associated with people who are “obsessed with themselves.” Like protesting. Protesting for civil rights, the environment, etc. clearly offers no benefit to the rest of society and involves no risk for participants...This house sounds like the place I’d be…

I pretty much agree with all of this. I admittedly also have a Nasty Woman t-shirt. And a Make Racists Afraid Again shirt, which to my delight has made some white men look deeply uncomfortable when I’m out running errands in it.

I was attending community college (my third stop after one semester at a Christian college and two years at a university in the Dallas area), working at various after-school programs, and was in and out of an abusive relationship. I eventually graduated from yet another college, and I left both that shitty…

She is amazing, for so many reasons!

I had this thought too. I myself once prefaced some shitty thing a man had just done to me with, “I made the mistake of...” My therapist said to me, “You know that you didn’t make a mistake, right??” So I can definitely see the former employee as having made that comment herself, but yeah, might help to clarify that…

In my churchy days, I once visited a church where a young blonde pastor rolled up his sleeve to show me his Transformers tattoo of Megatron, or whatever. “Because, like, the Bible says we’re to be transformed, not conform to the world...you know?”

This episode right here - The Tale of the Dead Man’s Float. Haunted the shit out of me when I was a kid, because I grew up swimming every single day in the summertime, and the thought of being dragged underwater by an invisible force that turns out to be a giant red POOL MONSTER is horrifying.

And of course the people prescribing mental health assessment/treatment as a method of violence prevention know fuck-all about mental health. The only thing you could probably diagnose most of these mass shooters with is a personality disorder like anti-social personality disorder, which most professionals would agree…

I rushed and started pledging an Asian sorority when I was college. I had just transferred, and never belonged to a community of fellow Asian Americans. At the time, I thought this might be a good way to connect. And once I started rushing, there were cultural elements that I did find unique and meaningful, in that…

People like Woody Allen and Bill Cosby - not just celebrities, but offenders at many levels of society - get away with sexual violence every fucking day because the courts decide “this woman is pretty questionable.” Convictions in the court of public opinion have little to no repercussion on the lives of powerful men.

I was excited that I still had it open! SO SCARY

Sounds very familiar lol. We’re dog-sitting for my partner’s mom, and her place is on the first floor with a glass display case and sliding glass doors. I am convinced that I’m going to see a ghost or some creeper in the reflection anytime. Between that and my fear of leaving the bed, it’s probably time for me to stop…

I just got home and found that I saved the link in a separate tab on my laptop! Here you go :)

This one took a lot of scrolling to get to, but one of my favs this year was the story of Jim and Alice! The ending of that one gave me chills.

Ugh. I took a course from him on The Making of American Christianity when I was a sociology major at UT. It introduced me to a lot of fascinating history and theory, but really and truly, he should fuck off:

Same. I’m a Korean woman with white parents. I’ve never wanted children or felt much in the way of maternal impulses, but when my nephew was visiting on his own and my parents started in on some bullshit, I almost picked him up and carried him out of the room. I realized that even if I did have kids, there’s no way…