you are a true hero.

you know times are strange (i mean besides all the other indicators) when Merriam Webster is a leading revolutionary voice.

eh, i think as long as your wedding doesn't involve the systematic subjugation and rape of women, teal is cool.

i'd like to introduce you to a man named Mike Pence.

and i thought aspects of THAT show were disturbing.

part of it was shot before the election. several of the actors have taken about how different filming felt after the election.

she's a very second wave feminist. though she wrote one of the most perfect feminist novels ever, so i feel like she gets an honorary seat at the table ;)

i also disagree with Atwoods views on that but I think it's important to remember that she wrote the book in 1984, in East Germany i believe. our sense of feminism and radical feminism has changed a lot.

well said and also fucking terrifying right now especially. we are always just a few steps from gilead, but those steps are smaller in trump's america.

yes, definitely a threat. he may not even have consciously realized he was threatening her. he may just be so used to power and holding it that he doesnt even realize how menacing he is being. lots of men are like that now, in smaller ways.

You may live.

the party is great. i am also a huge fan of the halloween ones. and the pontiac bandit. and the wednesday incident, for some reason. really all of them.

the live stream of the plug pulling ceremony was truly amazing, especially when you think through what that would look like.

my dog was hit by a car and killed today and i had to go into the street to pick up her lifeless body and take her and the 2 year old i watch to the vet so i could hand over her body and i had to watch her neck turn in weird directions. all i've been able to see all day is her body in my arms and how unreal it was,…

oh, i believe you!

it's SUCH a male thing to do. happens to women all the time (i mean not at that level, obviously!) i can't tell you often some man assumes he's being "kind" or at least tells himself that and really he's being condescending or rude or creepy or whatever.

they remind me of republicans. they are aware of the harm they are inflicting as they perpetuate their fucked up belief system. but they are happy to exempt themselves from it, and they don't care about the people they are hurting.

it makes me want to just slaughter all the white men, preemptively.

damn. i never thought she was really particularly good on GG and i don't think i've ever read an interview with her which was remotely memorable, but this is good stuff and she was fucking fantastic on handmaids.

i'm really glad they did this episode. it was a little clunky and heavy handed but honestly so many americans are so fucking stupid about race that it probably needed to be. i'll be glad to see it return to more jokes, but i also think episodes like this are important and something they can do that other shows can't.