You’re super exhausting sometimes. I mean, if it doesn’t apply to you...OK?

I’m going to put myself out here on the line about this and deal with the consequences of being honest in hopes of giving more enlightenment about why some of us women(yes I said US) stay and put up with it.

And the madame/goat farmer who tried to frame Capt Cragen for murder on SVU.

But just like there isn’t a white genocide there isn’t a “statistical genocide” against native women or women of color.

W is responsible for 100s of thousands of deaths, for 10s of thousands of young girls being sold into sexual slavery, of normalizing torture and holding people in prison indefinitely without trial. So until Trump is responsible for 1/10 of that, Bush Jr. will always be worse. He’ll always be worse regardless because…

No George Bush is still terrible no matter how bad we may think Trump has been in 2017. Bush literally set the world ablaze helping fuel the next generation of Islamic Extremist terrorism, which helped fuel the far-right extremism, which has plunged parts of the world into a new back and forth struggle.

Bush is…

OF course. Which is literally my point so I’ll say it again. EVERY SINGLE PERSON HAS A DEGREE OF PRIVILEGE THAT MAKES THEM COMPLICIT IN THE OPPRESSION OF ANOTHER GROUP. Now people have trouble with even this concept because nobody wants to think of themselves as a “bad person.” Here’s the thing, nobody is saying she,…

Voter suppression matters too. The easiest is to have a “you can’t vote if you’re a felon” law and then arrest and convict young black people on bogus felony charges. It’s an old Jim Crow tactic, and one that has led to 1/3rd of the black population in some areas of Florida being unable to legally vote.

Am I the powerful man?

holy fuck this is so secondhand embarrassing

Eleanor and Tahani, you mean.

Please don’t do it. I am a suicide researcher and getting a doctorate in clinical psychology, so I have worked with a lot of people who have been in the exact place you’re in. I want you to know that there are more options even when it seems like you’ve exhausted every possible avenue. I know you probably don’t want…

“Based on the quote, it appears that he’s saying identity politics aren’t enough: i.e. it’s not enough to just campaign as a woman, or as a POC.”

I have to thank you for using “females” in that opening sentence. Doing so appropriately set the bar going forward as “Oh, this is going to be some nonsense”, and the rest of your post absolutely did not disappoint in that regard.