whimsicalethnographies
WhimsicalEthnographies
whimsicalethnographies

I shouldn’t but...

What kind of world do we live in where words like, “grounded” and “reasonable” and “huh, yeah, I guess it is nuanced like that” are bad things?!?

I don’t know, honestly. Maybe? Maybe because at least he didn’t actually raped me? Maybe it’s the crazy things the mind does to protect itself so it doesn’t have to deal? I know I didn’t think it was assault then; I hated it, and it made me feel disgusting and ashamed, but I didn’t think it was assault. Now I

WHAT IS THIS

“My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn’t believe in mortgages... Now, obviously, I’m kind of far

Mostly it just makes me really, really want to go to a rich person party!

Be patient, this is only Part 1

Cherry picking parts of quotes to remove context is fun!

While they ate gold-leaf laden tuffles stuffed with lobster and laughed about how they would throw any leftovers away in front of poor people.

They picked a BAD day, between a Hurricane and Trump...

It’s nothing. Like, nuanced and straight up boring.

She still shouldn’t have done it!!! But yeah. You kind of nailed it.

Michelle Bachman is on MSNBC right now trying to claim that these show Hillary is a traitor, Hillary’s team is responsible for sending the Trump audio to WaPo, and that it’s just “boys talk.” GROSS.

Because they have the right to, apparently. See above audio. :/

And you know what? I still feel uncomfortable saying it was assault, even thought in my head I know it was.

No, you don’t. And how many women do report it? Probably not many. Even today I’m like, “well, at least he didn’t *actually* rape me.” Which is gross.

Thank you. It’s a reality we live with. And we STILL think, “well, at least he didn’t actually rape me.”

How many voters are remembering things like that right now?

It has happened to me on a subway, in a club, and at a graduation event.

It’s a grabbing between the thighs and cupping. It happens a lot, and it’s horrible.