At least one of the major cities in NC has an approximately 40% black population; if this took place in the Raleigh-Durham area, there’s a reasonable chance the judge hearing the case would be a person of color. Of course, if it took place outside of Asheville, then yeah, you're right, she’d be shit out of luck.

I definitely read that as "Vague Realization Leader" at first, lmao

Sure :-)

I think that Mr. Rogers may be the only prominent Christian minister in all of US history whom the Jesus of the Bible would recognize as a student of his teachings. Certainly he’d at least be one among very, very few.

Right? Like, literally just today, I went down to a doctor’s office wearing a trans pride flag necklace, answered a few questions about myself, got some blood drawn, and walked out with a prescription for gender-affirming hormone therapy, which I took to the first pharmacy that I happened to pass on my way home, and…

I had a professor once who talked about how, in the ‘70s, when she was a newly-out baby butch, the police would raid lesbian bars and arrest anyone wearing fly-front pants. It really was a totally different world back then.

...you’re invited to Thanksgiving at my house.

Shit, if this lady can be an Olympian, and Donald Trump can be the President of the United States of America, then I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want.

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I just wanted to reassure anyone who was worried about it that even fairly high-voiced people can get a nice, deep, imposing-sounding bark/grunt/whatever you want to call it going; I’m a mezzo-soprano and not only can I do a pretty decent one, but it also feels really easy on my voice…

Well, that plus a thick layer of internalized misogyny painted over all of it.

Nah, once it’s integrated into your worldview, it’s pretty easy to maintain. The poor decision-making is pretty much 85-95% white supremacy and 5-15% shitty religious teachings that nobody would adhere to if they weren’t relentlessly indoctrinated to them from birth.

[Insert sweating guy meme, with the buttons labeled “aww, what a sweet story!” and “nobody in the US should be so poor that they can’t afford small luxuries for a special occasion.”]

Well, there’s two thought processes you have to have going on for it to make sense: first and foremost, you have to believe, on some level, that at least a large percentage of nonwhite men are impulsively hypersexual animals who crave white pussy above all else; and secondly, you have to be so afraid of the reality…

“I don’t want to leave my husband, I don’t want to have an abortion, and I like being treated like a delicate porcelain doll who needs special treatment and care; to hell with anybody else!”

I don’t think it’s that simple. It’s a very calculated choice: they weigh the benefits they feel they stand to gain from white supremacy (i.e. protection from rape by men of color—and the concomitant power over those men that they gain through the threat of the lynch mob—and the freedom to exploit women of color…

A lot of white women would rather ride their way to the top of the ladder on the coattails of white supremacy and its benevolent sexism than claw their way up, knife clenched in teeth, through the ropes and chains of misogyny.

I never used to even be able to do that, though, until I got diagnosed with, and subsequently medicated for (surprise!) ADHD when I was 26. I did become a champion step-retracer, though.

Honestly, based on the title, I was definitely expecting, like, Skwisgaar Skwigelf’s Guide to Home Organization, so yeah.

Also, as more countries have outlawed leaded gasoline and other lead-containing consumer products, those other countries have also seen a subsequent drop in violent crime rates.

Man, I at least got “ABC, one, two, three, that’s enough for you or me!” The kids at your school were impatient little bastards (with no sense of poetry)!