It would be cool if this was the death of “cool white guy who has at least one public story about him being weirdly racist and I relate to him so much for some reason so he’s a true working class hero” among white men on “the left” but we know it won’t be

thank god I have the neediest little sweetie pie cat who ever lived whose life mission is to invent new ways to sleep even closer to my essence

even if the tattoo was something merely in poor taste, and not like outright evil, his response to it being "how dare you question me" was enough for all of us who know men like that. the Senate is not the place for a guy who thinks no one should be allowed to hold him to a standard!!!

The hard truth is people actually love abusers. They want to be close to people with power so they get access to it. Victims are pathetic and needy and people see victims expressing their pain as an affront to them and their social order. It's hysteria, "victim complex", "vulnerable narcissist",

I wish more than anything they didnt take my ability to coregulate physically with other people from me

Holy fuck THIS IS THE LINE. Practice saying it aloud.

“We should take credible sexual assault allegations seriously” is such a massive backslide from “believe women.”

Survivors who decide to say nothing are being so rational by the way. You will be punished, its just about how much, how protected you can be from that punishment, and if the slim chance it will matter will be worth it.

The argument, always, is not over whether rape happens. Everyone knows that it happens all the time. The argument is over whether rape is morally serious. A lot of people do not think that it is, and they would be more honest if they said so.

In rare good news, i did just learn my favorite neighborhood spot fired and blacklisted a bartender for being a predator (though i do think it was probably because he violated OLCC rules in the process of sleeping with underage customers)

One thing I think it’s important to keep in mind re Planter is the people finally turning in him now almost certainly don’t care about what he did to this woman either

everybody who looked the other way on dealbreaker after dealbreaker because they were so stoked on their great white populist hope deserves the humiliation she’s going to be forced to bear instead. yall made her into a sin eater because you wanted a slur-saying left so badly

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

CW: coercion & violence, contextless venting The way they talked about the acts of violence they felt like doing to their partner, the language of violence they use against their enemies, their joy in terrorizing, and their willingness to physically control their child are one thing to me

It took wayyyy too much for those turning on Platner now to believe victims

And by brave, I really mean selfless. There is a long history of victims who never would have come forward for themselves being willing to take on huge sacrifices for others, especially in high stakes situations.

Queer taxonomy gatekeeping is so grating like you can just personally be a hater it’s fine stop trying to find some way to make it authoritative

I wonder if i will ever feel safe in a friendship again

“Under the new ViaPath contract, people have to pay $0.03 to $0.05 per minute to access entertainment via a streaming service.”

I do appreciate that the lefties on council actually do use the tools at their disposal to challenge the entrenched stuff sometimes.

THIS THIS THIS

CW: venting about child abuse I wish they fucking bit you when you coveted their mouth with your havr but of course you taught them gradually you get to do that and there’s nothing they can do. They’re physically powerless against you. I feel sick

We had a really mean python at work and I gave him back to his owner and was like “he was trying to kill me” and his owner said “well, he only has so many ways to interact with the world. All he has is a face” and it Moved Me

Yes this. The rules of sports are designed around certain types of advantages and not others. Thats always been true! Historically women have been banned from many (or segregated or the rules changed to be "fair") precisely because we could sometimes win

😭 no, its not brat

This is actually worse than most of the "christian anarchists" and more conservative

Yes. Patriarchy is built on the idea women & children must be protected *property*. This is a core part of it

This is not anarchist this is saying its good to accept your place because there is one true divine authority who rewards you for doing so

i think im just angry that 'valid' is like a slur among people who dont, or pretend not to, understand how hollow life is when literally no one acknowledges you. your emotional needs arent met and now youre too scared to ask for support because no one will give it to you

As someone who grew up in poverty and made it to homeownership BECAUSE OF THE EXACT SAME EDUCATION MARIE GOT shut the fuck up marie, keeping trans people out of sports and (implied) education and expect them to work in the trades with your bigoted ass at best?? fuck you

Being against bad guys isn't a guarentee you're not a bad guy. If it's a keystone to your politics, in place of a positive project, introspection won't tell you if you are fighting power or fighting for power.

in portland we get 2 pride months because of the rose festival thats why we're so gay

i hope a sea lion eats her and dresses up in her clothes and goes on to be the best representative her district will ever have

I wish my cat would stick her tongue out back at me, I don't know why she can't figure that gesture out

This is something my "survivor support" collectively did to me in order to set up cameron to abuse me. I actively told them all (in particular william gillis) i felt like i needed them to tell me whats true and they *agreed* with that and started plotting my life for me (without me)

Oh don't mind me just revisting the nightly OCD spiral i had my entire childhood because of something really bad someone did to me that I assumed i must have invented in my head because I am evil

Remembering how my ex was posting making fun of me feeling good in my body because I was getting stronger after not being able to eat for months (starting before we broke up even because of how they were treating me) like what the fuck was wrong with them?

The weird tendency towards glorification of some idealised "people's government" and a refusal to take the problem of authoritarianism in general seriously is the really dangerous part of tankieism.

The Supreme Court is so evil I don't understand how anyone can be a liberal anymore

one day we will be free of the shackles of male definitions of sex

We live in such an amazing time is some really big ways. I wish instead of being anti-tech more of you would embrace freeing technology so we can all enjoy the fruits of it

I’m so sorry yall have to learn what reed college is like but it’s exactly rich kids failing to slaughter a chicken while barefoot in overalls the night after a fetish dance party where they very pure research drugs

Lmao this is all extremely normal Reed college stuff itd so fucking funny to see my college experience sensationalized like this omg

SMOKIN ON THAT E. D. PACK

Daily reminder that you're not required to be perfectly healed to interact with the world or for the people who care about you to show basic kindness in response to your pain.

For the 99th time, Donald John Trump isn't going to see you referring to him as subhuman because of his weight. Your fat friends will. So good job being as offensive as possible without changing anything. Is it easier to lash out at random fatties than tell your wh*te uncle he's in a cult?

one positive about engaging in religion discourse is that i dont have to assume people blocking me because of some new text message my abuser faked that I sent them

I truly can't believe people could ever thing I am manipulative because I tried to hide I was sad about something that was good for my friend with lots of effort and they just had known the whole time

Thank god my current special interest is perfume so when I accidentally infodump at the work function it’s maybe even a little charming (for a long time it was prison)

When I was a kid age verification was answering questions about recent American history so I could see 10 pixel boobs in leisure suit Larry which was for some reason on our hand me down computer