<— double laminectomy here; you are correct.

As someone who relies on a rolling walker (the kind with a seat), something struck me as very odd when I first saw HW using one, besides the fact that he was suddenly using one in court. Because I’m recently disabled, I’m a bit sensitive to the idea of questioning anyone’s disability issues, BUT if he’s using a walker…

Back in ‘08, at this stage in the game, we had Hillary winning New Hampshire and Barack winning Iowa, with John Edwards directly on their heels. They were damn near in a 3-way deadlock at the top, with no clear frontrunner at that time.

I’m so sad about Warren’s rapid decline.  I really love her message, her passion, and her policy wonkiness.  I’m also more irritated than usual about the media frenzy feeding into this idea that somehow Iowa and New Hampshire, two very small, fairly conservative, and white states get to set the entire narrative for…

It’s a perplexing leap between candidates with drastically different policy proposals, and little more in common than gender and party affiliation. White women in New Hampshire abandoned a progressive candidate who has advocated for free public college, medicare-for-all, and the end of cash bail for a moderate who…

“When pressed on the issue by Twohey, Rotunno claimed that the blame should “rest equally.” Men should be held accountable for forcing themselves on women but women must also accept the blame for not being careful enough, or purposeful enough in their intentions, or stronger.”

I used to think like her, like I was safe because I made better choices, didn’t drink, didn’t “let” men treat me certain ways. It’s a mental defense mechanism that allows her to think she is safe when she absolutely is not. The reality that you can be assaulted at any time just going about your daily life as a woman…

She is fucking wacky. Something clearly happened to her in her life that made her hate being a woman.

What’s pissing me off is she’s conflating a man making a sexual advance with a man not taking no for an answer.

It makes me so angry the assumption is men will attack and rape you because they can’t handle blue balls/disappointment. No, that is not what all men just do. That’s what people who rape do. Going into a hotel room does not mean you’re expecting or consenting to sex.

Maddening as it is, that’s the perspective of my SIL and MIL—both actual women, licensed counselors and card-carrying trumpies. Unless he’s got a knife, a ski mask and maybe roofies, it’s not rape or assault and all claims are just money-grubbing.

She’s so absurdly evil. She doesn’t even seem like a real person. Like, I’d roll my eyes if she was the villain in a Lifetime movie and think it was corny how over the top shitty she is. 

This is the argument everyone uses for defense attorneys, which is fine, everyone is entitled to a defense under law. This however does not exempt that attorney from criticism for their choice to defend that person or how they defend them. We all still shit on Robert Kardashian for defending OJ, and I personally hope…

What the actual F. Can this person’s humanity card be revoked? 

The unspoken part of these arguments is that it makes all men out to be assholes. If you honestly believe in the “You went to a guy’s hotel room, what did you expect?” you’re admitting that a) you think the victim is an idiot and b) all men are devious predators.

May he be forever cursed to having 5 year old super hyperactive seat kickers pummel his kidneys on every flight, plus seat neighbors who won’t stop trying to weasel him into Amway or another MLM on everrrry signle flight he will ever take.

The universe did some fucking BACK BREAKING to make this all come to a head, and I seriously wouldn’t have believed it if it hadn’t happened *to me.*

When I was 22, after a brief eyeroll hiatus from Thought Catalog, I decided to randomly read some articles there during some down time. If you don’t know Thought Catalog,…

Words to fucking live by:

I once had a guy break up with me in the passenger unloading zone while dropping me off for an out of town flight. It was cowardly AF, but also kind of ingenious because he knew he only had to deal with me for about 3 minutes before security would move him on.

(I was broken up with) After 8 years together out of the blue, on Facebook, on a Wednesday while I was at work. We were both in our 30s. Grow up.