This response was unexpected and appreciated, thank you.

Jew here. Following the point about her aiding the Gestapo (ya know, in murdering millions of Jews along with lots of Queer folks like herself, disabled, and others) by saying “she lived life on her own terms” - really fucking not cool and dangerously insensitive. This is part of why people fall for psychopaths…

I know. It’s deeply, existentially depressing.

Scary times

I’m only a little surprised by caricature of a trump supporter was this believable. Surprised and depressed and dismayed

I was mocking trump supporters. Sigh. This is what we’ve come to. The idiocy in the air is so thick people rightly believe in it even when it’s an act.

I’m a woman and I was mocking Trump supporters (perhaps too effectively...where’s my medal). Sigh. I guess the trump idiocy has spread far enough that our instincts our now to believe that level of deep ignorance is real when we first encounter it.

Not a troll, also not sincere, or rather - I was sincerely mocking trump supporters. I’ll just copy and paste what I said to someone who got very angry with “me”:

The fact that my sarcastic mocking of a trump supporter went undetected scares me. People are quick to believe such idiocy...not because they’re (your) gullible, but because it’s everywhere and it is real. (It always has been everywhere - it just has an obnoxiously, deafeningly loud platform now.)

No u become that with hard work and a smart head for bisness which is what trump has and that’s why he won and that’s what we need for america

MEN amirite.

Madeleine - I have the same memory and at the same age, but at camp. Boy slapped my ass, people laughed, I kicked him (fairly gently) in the groin, and then both boys and girls turned on me. I also got “you never do that.” It was such a weird lesson. He was rewarded for violating my body voluntarily, I was shamed for…

This is brilliant. You are already interesting to me! Self-aware and poignant.

I’ve always been fine with the thought of staying single forever. It’s never really scared me. That said, the way you’ve presented the two options is a bit biased...on one hand, a level ongoing outlook as a single person, and on the other, a relationship that will inevitably go sour according to your approximation. So…

This is *never* talked about. Are you an artist of some kind or a writer (also an artist)? I’ve never in my life heard anyone marry politics to talent and personality in the heart of the artist in that way. I’m beginning to sense that we can no longer pretend it doesn’t live there.