“*why repeatedly using women’s rights as political bargaining chips is sexist because how often do you see a man using the mortgage tax credit or capital gains tax regulations as negotiable”

Thanks for the Pod Save America comment ! I always listen to Hysteria before listening to PSA for the exact reason you brought up. The only reason I don’t roll my eyes as much at PSA is because one of the guys was a speech writer for Obama.

It really is shocking. And the way women will look right over your head to...the mediocre white man standing behind you. The conditioning is real.

I know the Scientology thing is wrong, but we always hear stories of how he treats crews and cast fantastic, always the hardest worker, pays for meals, makes sure people have breaks.

This is what kills me about him. You’ve got his movies (I have a shitload of respect for him, just like I did Jackie Chan when he was doing all his own stunts), and you’ve got reports that he’s a super good dude to work with. He’s been in the industry for decades, is in Scientology, and yet you never hear costars…

Once I had a boss (in city government) who put together an invitation list to a reception for a company looking to possibly relocate in our city. He was all excited about how he was going to get the best people in the city to come out and impress these visitors. The invite list he gave me to send out had 35 people on…

And yet, I’ll still watch the fuck out of his action movies. He is a bizarre, bizarre man who makes amazing action flicks. And is reportedly insanely nice to everyone on productions he works on. 

Thank you. The thing is, I do not need this! I have a very full, rewarding (professionally and personally), kid-filled life. But this needs doing and no one else had stepped up and NO WAY was I going to leave an empty spot on the ballot. I thought my challenges would be with the repub machine I’m running against (and…

The worst part about working in politics and government as a woman is the explaining I have to do.

I keep saying to my husband, our memories are long and they will be detailed! Friends of mine told me to talk into a voice memo app on my phone while I’m out and about because I do not have the time to be journaling all this, but I need to keep good records. I think that is great idea. The stuff I’m seeing and…

The harassment I am experiencing on the campaign trail is astounding to me.

Hey, if anyone wants to hear more from Brianna Wu she has a podcast called Rocket that she does with Simone De Rochefort, video producer at Polygon.com, and Christina Warren, Currently Senior cloud developer advocate at microsoft formerly a writer at Gizmodo. The podcast is about happenings in the tech world and…

In the context of agreeing that violence against women is overwhelmingly intra-racial, you should understand why saying “we have to dismantle white hetero male supremacy first, then go from there” maybe sounds a bit too much like “we should worry about white women first, then go from there”.

I suspect a Venn diagram of the two groups would be a perfect circle.

It’s amazing how after a school shooting, Republicans clutch their pearls at the idea of anyone politicizing the tragedy, but this poor woman’s death is absolutely fair game.

The woman who investigated my brother’s murder invested a lot of ego into it, and it was awful. She basically treated my mom and I like crap because we didn’t want the boy to go to jail or be killed, it was awful. 

Has anyone made a compilation of people politicizing her death that ALSO complained about the Parkland students politicizing their peer’s deaths? Because I assume there are many. :\

Another reminder that the people who don’t want the left politicizing the countless murders by gun owners (usually perpetrated by white males) have no problem politicizing the murder of a young woman because her killer was allegedly an illegal immigrant. And yet another woman has been murdered by a guy who can’t take…

How is it possible that sub-human horror can find its way to the peaceful communities of my upbringing?

Friend of mine shared this on facebook this morning; following up with an article showing that her murderer wasn’t an illegal immigrant after all....just a horrible human being.