I just called my mom for the first time since the results. As soon as she picked up we both started crying. I came into work today but I was late and I have pretty much requested to be left alone.
I just called my mom for the first time since the results. As soon as she picked up we both started crying. I came into work today but I was late and I have pretty much requested to be left alone.
Grieving is exactly what it feels like :(
Thank you for my first chuckle of the day. Your dad is in for it.
Even the lone Anti-Clinton supporter in my office is coming to grips with all of the possibilities (bad ones) under a Trump presidency.
I’ve wavering between not wanting to ever bring another human being into the world and wanting to get pregnant with #2 as quickly as possible in the event I need an abortion and it’s not available in the near future.
I actually called out sick from work this morning because I had very similar thoughts. I already have a bad temper but usually keep it in check. I woke up this morning wishing horrible things to happen to a whole lot of people, and realized if somebody said something I didn’t agree with today, I don’t think my…
I am likely much older than you, and also leaning on the harder fights of the women who came before me, in the first wave. We will never give up, any of us. Heads high!
I’m with you. I’ve been on Jezebel for years and just registered for an account today because I needed somewhere to express my anger and sadness..and I hope, eventually hope.
I do not know how to explain my kids that we can keep living in this country when I do not know if that will be true next year.
I had to console JujyJr who was almost crying that he was scared of WW3.
I stayed home from work because I feel physically incapable of going outside. My colleagues mostly seem to have made it in, which mostly makes me feel worse.
Good, because here’s what I wrote over on the “It’s Real” post:
Thank you for this space to talk, and for describing our collective grief.
Thank you for this article.
Thank you for this. Yes, this. I haven’t done much at work today because I feel like I am about to cry at any minute. I feel like last night I went from feeling optimistic to panicky to crying to feeling numb. I stayed awake with my husband most of last night and I felt like someone had died and I was grieving. I…
It’s an unedited copy of the closed captioning. We’ll get a cleaned up version, I’m sure, but in the meantime, these aren’t Deadspin’s errors. They’re the closed captioner’s errors. I mean, except for the parts that aren’t sentences and/or don’t make sense, that’s all Donald.
Trayvon Martin.
That we’re still immeasurably more racist and more sexist than anyone might have thought possible? Absolutely.