Joseph Clark

Comms/policy professional. Boy dad. Glutton. MSU. Soccer and Detroit sports. Rabid gamer. Oh, and politics. He/him. (Re)tweets are solely my opinion.

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@KellyBreenMI Fellow Xennial on the other end of the cusp: what, this?

[Amy Schneider @Jeopardamy]

Good news, word nerds! The NYT Tech Union has ended their strike, so you can go back to entering naughty words in Spelling Bee and giggling with a clear conscience!

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

I beg of you … please learn the difference between the STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION and the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Thank you. Bye.

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@eskrzy9 Two words: "Supporter housing."

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Let’s get 500 retweets on this as soon as possible to humiliate Donald Trump. The greatest political ad ever made.

[Lansing Facts 🫒 @LansingMIFacts]

🚨 BABY RED PANDA ALERT 🚨

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@thebrettparker @lpohutsky19 Sent to DRAY-EE-AY-EE-AIN

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@lpohutsky19 I don't think I've felt something that hard on this app in a long, LONG time.

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

Gonna say something unpopular here: I don’t think both parties are the same

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@lpohutsky19 The cruelty is the point.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

How do you feel about the Vice President? Give me a moment of your time and let me know if that changes…@VP

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@ElenaDurnbaugh What'd I say? It's like we never left!

[𝒟 @DetSparty_]

Dude nodded at him too lmao you can’t make this up

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

I have no dog in the fight but, wow, what a sketchy end to that @dallascowboys v @Lions game. Really seems like Detroit was robbed by the refs at the end of the game!

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

That being said, Goff made some awful throws down the stretch and needs to learn some hard lessons from this game.

And once again, this pass defense is a sieve, and this isn't a deep-run playoff team until they fix that issue.

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

The video clearly shows that 68 reports.

This was the right call because 1) you trust your offense; 2) you've clinched the division and you're vying for the top seed; and 3) your secondary is absolute trash, and you will lose in overtime if you lose the toss.

Totally jobbed.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

Did you know that the way a woman looks will impact whether her rapist or abuser is found guilty in a courtroom?

This was one of the most depressing findings of my PhD years ago.

Here’s what I learned:

If a woman is raped or abused, and she is seen as unattractive, overweight, gender non-conforming, if she is Black, if she is disabled or in some other way ‘unconventional’ to the white thin het femme norm, she is more likely for her case to be found not guilty or to be dropped.

When jurors and professionals have been asked why this was, they stated that they didn’t believe unattractive women would be raped or abused by men, and that she was probably lying.

HOWEVER - and here’s the fuckin kicker…

If a woman is raped or abused, and she is seen as very attractive, thin, White, or in some other way seen as beautiful… she is also likely for her case to be found not guilty or to be dropped.

When researchers asked jurors and professionals why this happened, they stated that they felt the woman must have led the man on, and it wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t control himself when she was so attractive. They were also more likely to employ rape myths about her wanting it or asking for it.

Worst of all, these findings apply to children: teenage girls.

So the moral of this vile misogynistic story is that:

Women, we can’t win.

They might pretend it’s about our appearance, but either way, we will be blamed and framed as liars. Our bodies will be used against us whether we are size 8 or size 22. It doesn’t matter whether we have long wavy locks or a short crop, it will be used. It doesn’t matter if we were running on a treadmill or we were in our wheelchair, it will be used against us.

This is misogyny. This is the reality of our courts.

This is why we can’t/won’t/don’t prosecute rape of women and girls.

Because no matter what he did, observers always find a way to blame the woman.

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@SMSforMI51 I will be happy to write a brief/white paper on the benefits of being closer to solar time and the negative effects of spring forward.

[Joseph Clark @ItsAllJustAnAct]

@VeronicaMtzMI1 It's not my fault! Blame Big Gretch!