I’ve known plenty of Christians who are/were lovely and loving people, but also, many, many who are not. Lately in my life there has been such an epic overlap in those who call themselves Christian or who wear a cross, and those who spew hate at me. Those who want to see me subservient, those you treat me with contempt, those who try to explain to me why my dear friends will burn in hell. It’s gotten to the point where there is so much overlap that when I see a cross around someone’s neck or in a social media profile my nervous system goes into alert mode. 🫤 To the non-hateful Christians, could you maybe have a chat with your compadres here? Maybe you can encourage them to be a bit more loving. I doubt this is the impression that you’d like to be having on the world.

It’s amusing that people say Charlie Kirk believed in freedom. I have some rather old school libertarian values. I very much support civil liberties and individuality and autonomy for every one, even married women like myself. Charlie did not, he wanted me to be subservient to my husband. And what he wanted for my LGBT friends… wow. This guy liked to use words like freedom, but actively spread ideas to the contrary. Not only a hypocrite but someone who trampled on the values of liberty. Sad.

Wow cool. I hope this works 🤞

To the men who tell me that I talk too much about misogyny… were the roles reversed, if you were dealing with what I deal with, and you did nothing, I would find you to be a coward and I would lose respect for you.

“I think Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, was a real shitbag. But I’d rather live in a world with him in it than one in which folks kill each other to get retribution or achieve political ends.” “There are things you do not want to politicize. The rule of law, democracy, and due process are ideals that belong neither to the left nor the right. They separate a society you want to live in from a society you don't. Any party or project or person who threatens to replace these foundational principles with terror and barbarism threatens us all.” - Cathy Reisenwitz

Well the social division is about to get even more unbearable. Fucking wonderful.

Free speech is wildly important. It allows us to see the truth of someone and sort them accordingly. The right way to handle people with horrific ideas is to let them be public fools, and to have better ideas. Violence makes them martyrs. It does not help.

Charlie Kirk is an awful human being. Shooting him is not only clearly wrong, it's not going to help anything. This shit will now get worse.

American cities really do have a violence problem. I've witnessed it, I've experienced it. It's bad. But this recent outrage hits me as very political and disingenuous. If Iryna Zarutska had been just a normal looking black lady... would any of us know her name?

What would be a good way to articulate the difference in the internal experience between caring about someone and wanting to encourage them to grow as a person vs "trying to change someone"? I think I can feel the difference, but I'm not sure how to articulate it.