“The hand sanitizer thing sounds like a shitty, petty gift, but really shouldn’t be mentioned in the lawsuit.”

“What I’ve come to understand is that I am supposed to just let it be and not let it ‘get to me’,”

Upthread you say she hasn’t done anything in her two days on the job. Now you’re tired of this Latinx woman minority in a room full of white men being described as authentic and different from cuz she’s just a politician? You don’t see the irony in your comments at all?! And you’re gay but so unaccepting and…

So you, a gay man, believe AOC needs to be dour, frumpy and a policy wonk at all times in order to be a valuable person or effective politician?

Medical implicit bias is definitely a thing! My 80+ yo grandma went back to the hospital after finishing treatment for breast cancer because she had a fever. Turned out to be a cyst that needed draining. 2 residents marched in rough-handling her 90lb body with us two grand-daughters in the room! When I stopped them, st…

The parallels of the treatment of the Australian Aboriginal people by the white colonizers and Native Americans and Blacks are soooo close! You’ve obviously seen Jindabyne, the movie about 4 white Australians who discover an Aboriginal woman’s body and the choices they make? Chilling in its banality.  

It’s every teenager’s duty to stretch the boundaries and every parent’s to realize that’s necessary for teens to enter independent adulthood. But it’s stupid for any person to say they were with or we’re watching another human being EVERY MINUTE! Unless you were a conjoined twin, even toddlers get away from super…

Insiteful (a grey) said,”Black mothers raise your daughters better...”

Willfully blind, disingenuous, just wanna be mad?

This sounds like a party I needed to start my year off better!

“Too many dudes I know who are sure R, Kelly is a pedo will still throw out “Well those girls wanted things...They just want the bag” when we all saw that video tape.”

Like, who is ‘we’, CatKisser? Are you calling Root Commenters to task for not defending  Hilary Duff?!?!

I think you know what I meant by ‘excuses’ [Get out of trouble free cards] MEN mostly GIVE and GET (from everyone) when they screw up: he was young, his mama didn’t raise him, everybody makes mistakes, I paid for that, can’t I get a second chance...

Thanx for doing this heavy lifting. Personally, even some of the comments on these stories about him are triggering.

“Especially when they haven’t yet had sex with you.”

This guy was lying in the letter, to his co-workers and to himself. She did not ask to go to his house AND sleep with him and he didn’t give her any money. She was on a Sugar Site and professional grifters don’t do that.

But who eats at restaurants next to the landfill if they don’t like the smell of garbage?

Black people LOVE them some R. Kelly! When they tried to radio block all those accused in #MeToo in the Detroit area, I don’t think it lasted one week. Every weekend, both R&B stations become R. Kelly central. In the past 15 years, I haven’t been to a picnic, lower or middle-class house get -together of any kind or…

So Kanye, Slavery Is A Choice, huh? Society shouldn’t have any standards to protect anyone over 17, huh? Nevermind their mental capacity or state, whether someone gives them drugs or uses psychological torture on ‘em right? Once you choose that first date, you choose FO’ LIFE, eh?

The collective community PROTECTS the young, those who don’t know danger when they see it, the shudda-known betters, those from bad homes, and those who just make mistakes from people that are explicitly out to demean, exploit and destroy them.