Not literally recognizing her. I meant recognizing similar abusive/manipulative tactics.

I’m ex-industry, too. The blatant misogyny was actually easier to deal with than the microaggressions. The micros were excused away when confronted and I was usually painted as dramatic/overreacting/not a team-player. Constantly struggling for years to be taken seriously in an industry that clearly doesn’t want/value…

My mom wouldn’t let us watch Mommy Dearest. We called her Mommy Dearest once and she freaked out, but we’d never heard of the movie before so we didn’t get it. Other than that, she let us watch whatever we wanted, especially if she wanted to watch it.

Seriously, this is escalating behavior. If he isn’t stopped soon, he’s going to hurt someone.

“Who hurt you?” is pretty effective.

I’m in a feminist sci-fi book club, so I am here to help! Ann Leckie has this Imperial Raadch series (first book is called Ancillary Justice) that I’m into. I somewhat recently read Carol Emshwiller’s The Mount and couldn’t put it down. Even when I put it down, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. ANYTHING by Octavia…

I wasn’t really aware of just how desensitized I was to it until I started keeping a work journal at my last job, but the journal quickly became a “shit men say/do to me while I’m at work” book. Transcribing the first six months of entries was a bit devastating. Honestly, I haven’t been able to finish it. Seeing them…

My guess? It isn’t that uncommon for a child raised by someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder to have PTSD, but yeah, I’m sure they’d try to find a way to blame that on Obama, too.

I just finished listening to “The Pope’s Long Con.” Fair warning, the guy it’s about killed himself when the story started coming out, so I understand if someone wouldn’t want to listen to it, but it’s an interesting exploration into a person who rose to power during the Trump election. Also, I second everyone’s You…

I started the month with Ann Leckie’s new book Provenance, but one of my holds from the library became available, so I’ve been reading Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Definitely recommend them both— the former for space opera lovers who don’t cling to traditional gender…

If Jacques turns out to be a creep, I’ll never trust again.

I’m rude AF. They still come at me AND criticize my “attitude” while they creep.

Punch him in the dick next time. See how much he likes unwanted touching when the shoe’s on the other foot.

I suspect the truly damning/blackmail-worthy part of the tape has more to do with the *age* of the alleged urinators.

That staring-through-you thing could be her making a mental note of what you’re saying/what you want her to do. I’m assuming she goes on to do the thing you asked? I’m saying this as someone who’s been told to smile more at work (which only made me want to smile even less). When I’m thinking about/processing…

Don’t do it. One time, some dude told me to smile when I had legit just gone to a funeral earlier that day. I said as much. He then tried to hug me.

“If you don’t like the way I’ve arranged my face, how about you stop looking at it instead?”

Same here. I don’t know if I would’ve ever been able to cut ties with toxic family (without feeling like a total monster) if it weren’t for my husband and his family showing me what unconditional love looks like.

Wasn’t CK in a Woody Allen movie a few years ago? I guess he’d know a thing or two about working with a pedophile director.

Does he stop breathing? If he stops breathing, it’s sleep apnea. When my husband had his sleep study, they were like, “You only stopped breathing around 30 times throughout the night.” (Me: Horrified Emoji, “ONLY?!”)