You are so right about harassment in schools normalizing this for young people. That's a HUGE and largely untouched story.

Fuck that. When a child is being molested,, adults have responsibilities - even if it's just calling for another, more appropriate adult to get involved.

Yes! ^^ The point, you, getting it right! Joking up the ladder - where the butt of the joke is the racist - is exactly how it should be done.

Was this on some kind of plane where it was just the two of them sitting there? Because when I've flown, there's pretty much always 3 seats grouped together, with lots of other seats nearby, and if that was the case, then there was likely another adult there, who did nothing and let this girl have to deal with this…

I've done naked legs and ballet flats this week, but that's because I live somewhere it actually *is* Spring. Until it actually thaws, I stay on team amillionsweaters. Winter clothes might get boring, but freezing fucking sucks.

Yes! This is completely within the spirit of the Be the Cockblock You Want to See in the World campaign! This way, vaginas get a vote <3

Because leaving an abuser is very often deadlier than staying with them, likely.

Totally fair. I did similar with LOTR when those were coming out - because of course none of the kids had read the books <sigh>

Your bigoted bullshit warrants one response only: hey bigot, die in a fire!

last night was a battle of hastings and my best friend from 5th grade mashup

I'm waiting to find out if I'm going to be interviewed for a co-op position and feeling the same way about the timing of this weekend. Luckily, I have heaps of school work to drown myself in. I advise finding a project to distract yourself.

Destroy all the space things, chop away, and know that you rock for being able to deal with it in such good ways <3

Oh yes. Dates from history are a go-to for me, as well as old phone numbers.

I am always moving past them, getting stuck back in them, getting the better of them, and having them get the better of me. But at least it's always a shifting process. For me, starting to deal with it actually required a complete health meltdown and hospitalization, so I hope you don't have to walk such a hard path…

He's paying my share of the rent so I can do my masters, he grows the most ridiculously beautiful gardens - flowers & veggies both, and he is ceaselessly patient with me. No idea how I got so lucky.

Brought to us, no doubt, by the House Committee for Control Over the Bodies of the Wicked Womenfolk. They had to do something, after all, we currently don't need court permission to knock boots *at all*! They clearly can't let that go on.

Less TV, less porn, and more spending time with actual people for you, my pua pal. If you really believe any of that, then you live in some small, sad corner of the world where everyone is miserable an awful lot of the time because they are obsessed with gender dichotomies and making sure they fit american pie…

God how I love stripes. I will spend half the spring wearing variations on this theme - and I would have whether January did or not. Stripes!

Thank-you for raising this. I've been a big fan of her work, but this latest bullshit has completely put me off her, and I'm pissed to see jez still promoting her. Yes, we vote with out wallets, but in this on-line era, we also vote with out clicks and word counts, and she doesn't deserve either. Ha, now I'm mad at…

I just can't fight the urge to...
<reaches over and blots Scarlett's lipstick>
It's too saturated, washes out the rest of her face.