Once in third grade, my father off-handedly mentioned that under the Constitution, we didn’t actually have to stand up and do the Pledge of Allegiance. So me being the third grade dink that I was, the next day I stayed seated for the Pledge at my local private school, and was promptly sent to the pastor and the…

Paris Green, the new cure for COVID!

Pretty sure you misunderstood her quote about suffering - she’s not trying to say that she herself is used to suffering but that, as an activist, she is used to seeing the suffering of others.

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

“c?” Fuck right off. 

for the record, Kim Gordon’s cake video is great.

Agreed on all fronts. I just need this nigga to take an improv class or something.

Yeah, I doubt he planned to die in a helicopter crash today.

I am truly grateful she came through with her story here vs elsewhere, particularly as she’s getting comfortable.

Agreed! I’ve had some seriously funny exchanges with a few people around here regarding the crime hat, and the crime visor of course. I wish I could remember the commenter’s name, and the comments history doesn’t go back far enough for me to check, but someone once sent me a reply and referred to her crime visor as…

Giuliani’s looking better than I would have thought, given his age.

Exactly. There’s certainly a discussion to be had about what I guess you might call “relative privilege”, and how privilege is often context-dependent. Like for me, as a white, middle-class, cis-gendered guy who is also on the autism spectrum, so long as I can show up, nod politely, and not start talking about Lord of…

Boomer here. I still think it’s funny as hell, especially the hysteria. And I know you kids aren’t talking about me. I’m not a regular granny, I’m a cool granny.

Just because your step mother was nasty doesn’t make it OK to be violent towards any and all stepmothers.

She was probably stunned and embarrassed and hurt which of course can make you unable to respond in moments like that.

Slight tangent (but still fitting with how I feel about douche canoes like these guys):

Mrs Bigot. 

Felicia the Former Educator?

I just want to say that the term conspiracy theory is used to describe something people think is crazy and outlandish, it is used to make some things seem like impossibilities and the people who say things seem like rambling paranoid loons.

She’s a confident and unapologetic black woman. Nothing makes people crazier.