My cousin was sexually assaulted, and some of the relatives asked, “Why didn’t she fight back?” I said, “Handing over your wallet when you're getting mugged is seen as a way to keep yourself safe. Yet when you comply during Sexual Assault, people ask why you didn't fight back.”
Silence in the room
My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43.
I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000.
He said "so save up."
I said the down payment alone is $82,000.
He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces."
I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month.
He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet.
Then he said something I didn't expect.
"I put down $3,200 on our first place. I had it saved in eight months working at the plant."
Then he just sat there for a second.
"I always thought you kids were exaggerating."
That's it. That's the whole conversation.
He wasn't being cruel. He genuinely had no idea. Nobody ever showed him the number.
Most of them aren't defending the system. They just never looked at it.
My sister divorced her husband. When she went into labor, he left the hospital because he said he was “too tired” from staying up with her and needed to get some rest. He came back five hours later and casually told her he’d had a great dinner….sushi. The same sushi she’d been craving her entire pregnancy but avoided because it wasn’t recommended. When she asked why he didn’t at least bring her something, he shrugged and said, “I thought the hospital had food.” Some men will watch the woman risking her life to bring their child into the world and still center their own comfort. Men aren’t lonely enough.
If you heard that someone poured scalding hot water on his wife, put a gun to her head, and broke his two year-old daughter's collarbone, you'd think the person would be in prison, but you were wrong. That is Rep. Max Miller who has full support of House Republican leadership!
You know how many times I felt like the fuckin WEIRD one and wondered what tf was wrong with me like I was on a planet ALLLL alone yet there are people in the room with me, until I found out and the RELIEF when I was like there’s an explanation…
Can’t be with a bisexual or pansexual man because “sexual health” but that shit don’t matter when you got Straight Steve over here sleeping with five different women raw at the same time. Okay.
A Texas woman got an abortion. So Texas police used 83,000 Flock cameras to track her down. 83 THOUSAND!! They aren't using these cameras to track down rapists, pedophiles, or traffickers. They're not using them to find your missing children. They're using them to throw women in jail for making choices about their own bodies, with OUR tax dollars.
A rapist won't be given a forced vasectomy but a rape victim will have to grow, carry & birth a baby against her will. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. https://t.co/z6kdbX6BUk
Stop treating housekeeping like a punishment. Put on music, light the candles, burn the incense, and romanticize it. You’re not cleaning the house… you’re restoring order to your little kingdom.