It doesn’t matter to me if she’s a baby, a kid, a woman, a man... this is scary and sad no matter what.

Denial: not just a river in Egypt

Yeah, sure. Get back to us all when you’ve actually saved a life by carrying a gun around. Until then, you’re just another wannabe hero adding to the problem.

Perhaps this is a bit O/T but I’ve always been curious about the mentality of these white supremacists, whose belief system is based on the genetic superiority of the white race but every single one of them look like, well, like Roof: skinny, unhealthy and clearly genetically damaged. I just don’t understand how they…

On the downside, neo-nazis are going to be carrying around the transcripts of his defense like Mao’s Little Red Book for decades...

For anyone wondering, I teach at a community college and run, hide, fight is pretty standard protocol. At Virginia Tech, students hid under desks, and once the shooter got into the room, he just shot them one by one. Since then, the advice has changed.

You, however, can fuck off.

I’m seeing some criticism of the fight part of the message. It’s a list of priorities. Run if you can, hide if you can’t, and fight if you’re found. The truth is that if an active shooter finds you and you don’t fight you’ll die anyway. It doesn’t mean to proactively go out and play Yosemite Sam trying to hunt down…

It’s totally possible for him to have a legitimate mental illness, for which he needs treatment and support, and for him to be a blow-hard who thinks he is a “genius” and “deep” despite being a middling talent and a member of America’s shallowest family. They aren’t mutually exclusive, but ignoring the former in favor…

To anyone who’s suffered through the hell of untreated bipolar I (that’s me, hello), watching this man’s suffering is hitting far, far too close to home.

I’ve been super uncomfortable with the making-fun-of-Kanye thing and the declaring-Kanye-the-biggest-genius-of-all-time thng for quite a while now. Because it’s made me feel crazy that seemingly everyone thinks he’s just quirky or weird or has an outsized ego or whatever else when it has been blazingly obvious for…

When Kanye’s “Famous” video came out, I didn’t understand why that wasn’t enough of a red flag for one of the Kardashians to be like, “Are you OK, man?”

I guess I don’t use social media that way.

This is the foolish, limited line of thinking that Chimamanda is actively working against.

Some of them might work with serious issues all day and use social media as an escape. A space to relax and restore energy. Some people like to have different accounts for different things, either because they worry they will be percieved as shallow if they happen to post about lipstick by the people who are there…

I’m a foreigner living in India and it was so shocking to me to go to the store and not be able to find a single skin care (or body care) product that didn’t promise to lighten the color of your skin. As a woman it made me feel sick, because in the west it’s more about “hey get rid of those pimples” or “hey tighten up…

I don’t know if it’s good - if I choose to wear makeup I also don’t want to be discriminated against any more than if I choose to not wear makeup. I think that some people in my workplace have notions that women who wear makeup are not serious, or smart, or are not willing to work hard. Either way, makeup or no makeup…

It seemed like her statements were pretty self aware and honest. The more people that genuinely woke, the better.

Waiting for someone to explain the snark re: Kristin Davis.