I sit near a manager's office, and I keep overhearing him having conversations with people about sexual harassment as a current even of topical interest. I can't really hear enough to even know what anyone's actual opinions are but the "I'm discussing this rationally" tone of voice is enough to really annoy me.

Totally a me-problem, I am aware.

I'm really pessimistic about this tax thing, so my tolerance for the rest of "reality" is very slim right now.

Like, oh my god, what if we fired all sexual harassers? LET'S FUCKING TRY IT.

I've been in burn-it-all-down mode for (checks watch) about a year and two weeks now. Between the people who have been fired, are nowhere near firing, are about to vote a mall-haunting teen raper into national office and are poised to kill net neutrality and push through the tax disaster, the only change in my outlook for this week is that burning may not be enough.

However, I am so, so glad you are at last being heard and taken seriously instead of gaslighted, hippo. It's long overdue.

(I am feeling especially grim right now because my desk is covered with the contents of a packet from a desperate parent who is the saddest kind of opposite, advocating fiercely for more aggressive intervention on a child who is surely doomed because they're convinced the entire medical team is gaslighting them and someone, somewhere has access to the miracle that will fix everything. I'm just an admin and it is gutting me; the nurses and doctors who have to explain it to the parent yet again will be completely wrecked.)

Like, oh my god, what if we fired all sexual harassers? LET'S FUCKING TRY IT.

I'm pretty well convinced if all the rapists and abusers just disappeared instantly and left vacancies in their homes and work places we would surely survive, and be the better for it. Yeah, they all can go. It is a risk I am willing to take.

I'm sorry, JZ. That is heartbreaking all round.

Like, oh my god, what if we fired all sexual harassers? LET'S FUCKING TRY IT.

Please, yes. Actually, not even fucking please. LET'S DO THIS.

Not seeing a downside.

trying to like all these posts.

I am PUTTING UP THE TREE. Should I live stream on FB?

Timelies all!

Could I please have a reasonable night's sleep?(I don't ask for a good night's sleep, that's not going to happen. I'd just like to fall asleep and stay asleep without waking up coughing.

Sleep~ma! May more sleep than anticipated happen.

Should I live stream on FB?

Of course, except I am not where I can watch.

Like.... who was it? Someone really prominent with a lot of accusers but no consequences...?? OH RIGHT. THE FUCKING PRESIDENT./

Every time another man is busted for sexual harassment yet that self-admitted motherfucking sexual predator is allowed to stay in the Oval Office, I get closer and closer to TOTAL HULK RAGE. Burn it all down.

It occurred to me tonight that, if Trump had been treated as the joke he was and never won the primary, if he went back to whatever bullshit he was doing before, with his reality TV show and whatnot, then RIGHT NOW, this specific moment in our history, when all these powerful men are getting called out for and busted for being sexual predators, then Donald Fucking Trump would probably have been called out just like the rest of them.

And instead we have to watch him stay in the Oval Office despite his admission that he's a motherfucking sexual predator.