I will say again. Domestic Violence is wrong in any capacity. However, in the future, it would be best to keep additions to the conversation relevant or at least fully-formed. As mentioned earlier by Vincent Price’s Laugh and Mzz DeBurgos, you pretty much just spat out the statistics with only a tangential…

I truly wish I could offer you more helpful advice. I was hoping you were able to do more with it than I have been, but I know that feeling of being on your own and staring down what seems like an endless psychological assault. If you’ll allow me, I’m going to give you a bit more advice from the same source. It’s a…

*Laughs*

The word “nigger” is like an invisible leash. We can’t shrug it off. It keeps us from going wherever we want without our knowledge sometimes by telling us where we “should be.” It also has a much more sinister use.

The actress who played Myra died. They had to write her out of the show.

The only thing now is support. Look at it like your self esteem is a badass sitting on a throne with a cool flaming sword and life sends all sorts of marauders and barbarians at you. You can fight them all, but it is tiring and requires constant vigilence to not get taken off-guard. What you need is a self-esteem…

So when somebody calls out another person on the problematic stuff they choose to share, “bitch” comes out of your keyboard?

Thanks, I got my head on straight eventually, but Young Sam had to learn a lot of tough lessons to get to where I am now. I still have to deal with the “now” hang-ups. I’m far from perfect, but hopefully a bit closer to good.

That’s the thing, at least in my experience, it’s much easier to relegate people to 2-D caricatures. You don’t have to know much about them, you don’t deal with nuance, and you don’t have to feel bad for them. It’s the same with the rest of the nice guy deal. You don’t need to know anything about your crush. You…

Yeah, the word nice doesn’t really have a clear objective meaning. Whenever someone sets a moral watermark, I find that it is rare that they mark themselves a “failing.” I know you posit that seeing yourself as “nice”is exhausting, but I am going to have to respectfully disagree, because it seems that the opposite is…

Firstly, I am pulling you out of the grey because abuse from any side is just as wrong, but this conversation here is about abused women. By shifting it back to men, you are derailing.

I agree. It is freeing to not view everyone through the lens of potential paramours. I did not reach the conclusion the same way as you, though.

To the men who may be reading, I would like for you to set your deflectors to “off,” your “whatabouts” to silent, and hit snooze on any bruised feelings. If you don’t hit or abuse women, you are simply complicit but still a generous share of this problem. I want to address you to save a few sisters some typing.

The reason why there are always detractors, deflectors, and derailers for this conversation is because, in general, men feel entitled to treat women as “less than” or a commodity. If you had a pet tell you that it didn’t want you as an owner, you probably wouldn’t seriously entertain its grievance.

“Even though I like Janelle Monáe more than Beyonce.”

It is when systematic predation and abuse of women by a monster who gathered his power and uses it as a vehicle to that end is flippantly treated as a footnote or an afterthought.

It’s when it rains. I liken it to the tears of privilege. I know I shed many as a younger man.

Tbh, cold cuts are pretty unappealing as well.

How do you feel about Civil War enshrinement? Some could make the argument that the confederacy stood up for what they believed in and their bravery and all that. It wouldn’t change the fact that they are trash and do not deserve celebrity, at least in my opinion.

Fuck Cosby. Even if all his accolades and accomplishments were expunged, it would not put back the shattered pieces of these women’s lives. His only legacy should be of a monster and an abuser. He should be remembered for his inhumanity and casual selfish disregard of women. His name should never be sung only spat…