I have to do all the cleaning tonight/tomorrow, and too bad my fury is paralyzing, not catalyzing.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2018 7:57:19 am PDT #108 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2018 8:01:54 am PDT #109 of 30019
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
too bad my fury is paralyzing, not catalyzing
Yeah, I should be working on a paper for school right now, but all of our readings this week were on the topic of unpaid care work (i.e. women's work and how women aren't valued in neoliberalist capitalism) and I wonder how much my grade would suffer if I just turned in 2 pages of single spaced " I JUST CAN'T EVEN RIGHT NOW". (And then "SERIOUSLY I WENT TO HOLTON-ARMS AND THIS WEEK IS TOO MUCH" as a citation.)
Laura - Sep 28, 2018 8:13:23 am PDT #110 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I would accept that and not take it out on your grade, Jess.
DavidS - Sep 28, 2018 8:33:31 am PDT #111 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wanted to thank Sophia, Hil and Zen for sharing their stories. It's helped me clarify my thoughts and feelings about our culture's built-in misogyny and sexualized violence. The gamut that young women are forced to run through and the long-lasting effects and damage that it causes.
I'm grateful that you have shared what were difficult and traumatic experiences.
Two things I'm seeing more clearly now. One is how the culture repeatedly minimizes the effect on women. How they are expected to get over it and even this pressure to say, "I wasn't raped but..." and have to justify their feelings about these experiences.
And that's the second thing is just we have to stop drawing a line at rape and saying that's the standard of misogyny or sexual violence and everything else is dismissed.
First of all because even when Brock Turner is caught in the act, he gets away.
And second, because it dismisses and minimizes all this damage that occurs below the threshold of rape.
Laura - Sep 28, 2018 9:08:15 am PDT #112 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
The person I unfriended today replied to me that as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things. Buh bye. DH kept me from unfriending my nephew by deleting all of his comments, since it was on one of his posts. That has been his coping method with relatives that he doesn't want to unfriend. He just deletes their objectionable comments.
We'll see what happens with this latest Flake business. Hmmm.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2018 9:13:47 am PDT #113 of 30019
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things.
FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE
EpicTangent - Sep 28, 2018 9:20:01 am PDT #114 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
That has been his coping method with relatives that he doesn't want to unfriend. He just deletes their objectionable comments.
I like the snooze button when it's their own questionable posts. I don't want to actually unfriend my nephew, but if I have to read the word "libtard" one more time...
as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things.
FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE
What Jess said.
Sparky1 - Sep 28, 2018 9:22:18 am PDT #115 of 30019
Librarian Warlord
We'll see what happens with this latest Flake business. Hmmm.
Lindsey G. to President: Can we have an FBI investigation? President: No. Flake, Murkowski, Collins, Manchin: Oh, well, we did everything we could. We confirm.
In a nutshell.
-t - Sep 28, 2018 9:39:50 am PDT #116 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, that's what I expect and it's weighing me down. Maybe if I save my energy today I'll be ready to riot next week.
Sounds like an A paper on women's unpaid labor to me, Jess!
Jesse - Sep 28, 2018 9:53:01 am PDT #117 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe if I save my energy today I'll be ready to riot next week.
God, yes.