Same.

That’s one way of getting there! :D I love this.

My mother tried the whole “fudge” routine around me when I was a child, and I hated it, since having to take the moment to switch out the word just made her more aggressive somehow. Believe you me, the term very much came across, with the sentiment behind it dialled up indefinitely. I found it incredibly really…

I don’t even have it in me to be outraged by any of this any more - as you said, we knew this. But the people *cough* rebuffed Piers Morgan *cough* who keep defending this bullsh*t? Their lies do enrage me. The cognitive dissonance that one has to wilfully employ in order to tout, “You may not call them racist, I say…

Welp, here’s somebody being really sensitive regarding the issue at hand, namely the fact that Athletes Are Human Beings :

To add insult to injury, she’s Black and her husband has no documented history of sexual misconduct that I’m aware of, huh?

^^

Very bigly respectful veteran golfing, though.

Tempest in a teapot.

This, all day long.

They’re going to jail.

You really can’t make this shit up.

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I find it so baffling that fending off mere feelings of discomfort is prioritised over changing the actual, very fucking uncomfortable (I’m being cute here) life situation of a great many people living in the US.

“So We, As Ourselves is a permission to speak that we are providing for ourselves and for our daughters that we can step into our full humanity,” Bandele concluded. “That we can be vulnerable; that we can talk about our trauma in a place that’s safe, and that we deserve. That we are worthy of that.”

That was my first thought, too: “Grrrl, you couldn’t even come up with the better lie?”

They have an easy enough time of it if the addressee is white and male. Like, calling a white man “Dr.” is “natural”. Addressing even a white woman as “Dr.” is way harder, and if we’re talking Black woman Dr., that’s just... unnatural.

Not even, apparently. It was just oh-so-funny. *blech*

This.

Abuse 101.