When I was finally ready to stand out, the realization that the mainstream didn't want me was freeing and galvanizing. It gave me something to fight for. It taught me that women are an army.

The problem is people weaseling out of the growth. We are addicted to not being inconvenienced by reality. Even in mundane circumstances.

[about a character in movie Little Nicky] A hilarious, hilarious sex criminal.

[about movie Little Nicky] In hell, to pay for his penis crime, Satan sentences Lovitz to be raped eternally by a giant bird. Ever notice how men's idea of hell is always rape? Man, wait til they hear about Earth.

It's about who feels safe in public spaces and who doesn't... which is to say it's about everything.There's so much talk right now about being on the wrong side or the right side of history.The truth is, that we have no idea whether the things we do are going to land us on the wrong side or the right side.

the soft violence of willful ignorance

We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form-like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'-white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House.

Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the world fully informed about my body and reproductive health.

I think we can all agree that this fully checks out and that indeed it is men who are the true victims of witch hunts. Which they invented. To kill women.