“I never imagined being a single mom [...] but fucking dating sucks.”

I agree completely. Women have reached the point where we don’t need men to stay out of poverty or navigate our way through society, but men haven’t accepted that they need to step up to the plate and that their old behavior isn’t good enough.

Interesting you should write this. Just yesterday I ripped someone a new one for telling me that based on my numerous posts about hair. The implication seemed to be that it was a lot of time and planning for something trivial. If we didn’t live in a country that hates us and our features, I wouldn’t have to put that…

I don’t know that she’s wise beyond her years, simply because I know so many people her age who have such a great self-knowledge regarding their sexual identity, orientation, and an awareness of their bodily autonomy that outstrips most of their elders. I think it’s more that the older generations are foolish beyond…

From what I’ve heard, if they wanted to deliberately design prisons to produce racists, they couldn’t do any better than what we have now.

I really wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but I think it would be just as easy to “remember that dark period” with a coverup tattoo. Covering up tattoos is probably 50% of a tattoo artist’s business these days. He could cover the offensive art with something expressing his atonement. And I sort of hate…

I was in the punk scene in high school and a lot of skins had those tats. I really doubt all of them had killed a minority, but it’s pretty common in that subculture

Can we back up slightly and talk more about your roommate selection criteria?

You’re right. “Cop who murdered unarmed man is later revealed to be a Nazi” is much more accurate.

Except you are woefully wrong. Most tat places will cover gang tats for FREE. They let the apprentices do it. My tat person charges $150-200 an hour, and sets aside time every week to cover gang and prison tats for free.

and notice that his apology was only “to those offended” because photos of his tattoos “became public.”

I believe people can repent.

If he changed, he can remove the tattoo. If he had the ‘n’ word tattoo’d on his arm from his past racist ways, which he has since changed, doesn’t make it okay. Get rid of the tattoo and maybe I’d believe him. Keeping it around “as a reminder” is dumb as hell. His personal reminder is weighed against the public…

People walking around with Nazi tatoos, and then defend why they haven’t removed them, have definitely not repented and changed their ways.

He stopped being a bigot, but he kept the swastikas to remind himself. Of what it’s like to be a bigot. In case he needs to remember that, for example if he meets a black person.

Yep. Tattoo removal is too common now and covering up bad old tattoos is even easier. Change it to your wife’s name, throw up an inspirational quote or just go with some new design.

I’m amazed how many people are misinterpreting your comment.

At what point do evidence and actions silence words?

Are we even going to feign surprise that a guy with multiple nazi tattoos got hired as a Louisiana police officer?

The spider web on his elbow is some racist skinhead shit too: