i absolutely **refuse** to empathize with any of these white male shooters who terrorize the rest of us. that is exactly how these stories are framed: the disenfranchised, mentally ill outcast who just happened to snap. fuck that.

i totally see both sides. nicki was right on the money and taylor shouldn’t have assumed the comments were directed at her, much less offered someone as popular and talented as nicki a spot on her stage. but i don’t think taylor’s comments were meant to be mean-spirited; if anything, they came off as someone who was…

thanks for posting this! great stuff.

you win the internet today.

i’m so glad you’ve found some support and compassion here. and yes, fuck ‘em. life’s too short.

i’m so so sorry you’re going through that. i think your feelings are absolutely valid and right on. i would also be horribly angry and devastated by their choice to do that particular show given how they treated you. you definitely don’t have to support them just because they’re doing their good “feminist” deed for…

i dunno... it’s still a LOT of people.

i agree. but we don’t live in a society where women and men are treated the same. we live in a society where even men in prison are accorded more rights than women. there are many women who report assaults in prison, only to end up in segregated housing or moved to maximum security prisons, even though their crimes…

well, here is some current information on *state* prison populations: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/04/how…

bravo, obama!!

or... the culture sexualizes incarcerated women and makes *them* into predators and victims for comedic purposes and/or porn.

i really, really dislike the practice of telling a person who just lost a parent or child that they “have to be the strong one now.” that is *bullshit* and it’s something that people ONLY say to women. why are women expected to suck it up and put aside their grieving for the rest of the world? we never ask this of men…

fellow white people, repeat after me:

“this is not about me.”

“this is not about how white people are wronged.”

i was so mad, i fucked that up. at FULL mast. not half.

forgive me. i was too busy refreshing cnn.com to see if south carolina had seceded yet.

(i’m responding to your comment, because i want to respond in this thread and there’s no other good place to jump in.)

SO BASICALLY... they removed the gadsden flags but left the stupid racist confederate flag up at half mast?!

hey, did any other south carolinians have to take the SC history course in junior high in the early 90s? every week, we had to put the names of the senior and junior senators at the top of our quiz. (uh, strom thurmond and ernest hollings, respectively.) AND the civil war was seriously referred to as the War of…

yes! this! you just articulated what i’ve been thinking but couldn’t quite put together into a coherent idea: the 80s/90s are totally being mashed up right now. admittedly it makes me a bit sad, because i’d love to see more 90s than 80s. we’ve already been there.

come on baby doll shirts. and velvet dresses. and…

i find this absolutely chilling. not that it’s the first murder of its kind, but...

between men like this one and MRAs harassing women online, doxxing them, sometimes hurting or killing them - it feels like some sort of war on women, especially those who fight back against harassers and abusers. i’m not even being…

also, why would he bother traveling 60 miles from maysville to cincinnati and hang out at a neighborhood bar if he didn’t like the area? wouldn’t he just fly out of maysville at the end of the reunion and head to england as planned?

as far as point 2, where are these interviews? i’m just curious. i’m not sure why he’d keep coming back to town if he didn’t in some way like being here. his family could certainly just visit him elsewhere.