Always worth repeating: “Rape Joke” by Patricia Lockwood

I’m still puzzled by those people. Like, Bernie Sanders got demolished in the primaries. If he couldn’t beat a generally disliked candidate how was he going to beat the 24 hour news coverage, the Russian interference, antisemitism and a general irrational hatred for socialism? How does that even work?

Right? It’s pretty disappointing, and you’d think that here of all places they would at least *try* to understand how to do better, instead of getting defensive and snide about it.

Exactly. My thoughts exactly.

The queer phobia and misgendering was completely unnecessary.

I’m not making it exclusively about that, but I wanted to point out that the inclusion of Scout’s story reads as mildly transphobic, given the context. The misgendering only amplified that, and even now I don’t see any real evidence that you or he are responding in good faith to the people who felt that the addition…

Firstly thank you for the clarification! Admittedly, the first edit of this article was going to be saved in my repository as some of the worst journalism to come from GMG in years. Even though you didn’t mean for it to, the misgendering combined with the snark gave the article an extremely bad look, at least from the…

So you fixed the gender issue without, might I add, noting the change. But you still think people shouldn’t be upset that the cops shot them, just because they were suicidal? So now where ok, with cops shooting the mentally ill?

Let me find my seat real quick because the umar stans are coming.

There’s definitely that aspect of it, and I have no doubt that white folks are more engaged because a white person was killed. But it continuously misgenders them, specifically mentions that white folks are riled because of Michael’s mistaken assumption about their identity, and minimizes the tragedy of their killing.…

Scout Schultz used they/them pronouns. Knock the white folks, but don’t erase trans identities while doing so.

Is it a bit of a stretch for me to say that the inclusion of Scout’s incidence in this installment of ““White Tears Bingo.” (*Patent pending, trademark applied for.)“

I love that you dropped the New Bae line at the bottom like you dropped the newly single line in that afcebook post. Lol!!!

This is dumb, nasty, and wasteful AF. Rolling around in mayonnaise on a hot-ass day. Can you imagine the smell? [gags]

Times I’ve blindly rooted for the black person:

Just a reminder

Can we add LGBTQ+ allies?

As an ally, let’s let the LGBTQ+ people have their capes on this one. Allies don’t always need awards.

Full disclosure: I voted Bernie in the primary and phone banked and raised money for him in Florida during the primary. When he didn’t win the nomination, I voted for Hillary in the general.

That young girl is dead. To me at my age, she was just a baby only starting out in life. Her loved ones are grieving and missing her. Whatever you may think about how her death came about, it’s just as easy to show compassion as it is to do the opposite.