Cowgirls seem to be a rare demographic but if I run into any who don’t like it, I will absolutely update my dataset!

I really need to dive into researching privacy respecting trackers. I require one for heart rate and sleep monitoring (due to a couple of medications I take- adult ADHD and medication management is quite a battleground for things like normal heart rate and normal sleep).

I’ll admit I like that my current, privacy-destroying, hateful watch can track my exercise, but it’s seriously not at all important to me (I have to actively monitor my heart rate during exercise to make sure I don’t push myself too hard as it is).

Hey I’m making a new comment so I can make sure you see it.

Remind the person posting that stuff that there are lots of ways to support the Girl Scouts and he could just make a charitable contribution if he wants.

I’d wait until cookie time next year, and if this is the excuse he uses for not buying cookies, have a locked-and-loaded event he could help volunteer for instead.

I came to the comments with this question. I googled it and apparently it can’t smell you yet.

Which is still awful and invasive and terrifying.

I’m not Christian but I’m fixing to get a sign that says Matthew 25:40 and put it over my front door.

I submit to you that they should fave the horrible fate being forced on others, and every time they suffer it should be live-broadcast online to others who think like them.

Wait. This is a meme place.

(from https://webcomicname.com/)

This article made me realize something about myself- I had assumed that the insurrection was predominantly white. I mean, the pictures! All the most famous pictures of the insurrectionists that come to mind were exclusively of white people (perhaps with a few demographics sparsely represented in the background.)

“Those charged were overwhelmingly white (659 of 716, 92%) but also included Hispanics (39, 5.4%), Blacks (10, 1.4%), Asians (7.1%, 5 of the 7 were of Vietnamese ancestry) and one Native American.”

(If you add up all non-white persons and subtract them from the whole, these numbers indicate that 620 of those arrested were white, non-hispanic. So 39 people were white, also hispanic. So 86.5% were white, non-hispanic.) (See footnote.)

Those are really telling numbers. But while I was looking, I found something we don’t get enough of lately- good news.

“517 of 716 (72%) were charged as the result of tipsters and informants…”

I’m notoriously anti-snitch, but this gave me some good vibes. That is so many. And-

“35.1% of defendants were identified as going to the Capitol alone…”

I know that’s fewer than I’d like, but I’m choosing to believe that 250ish people had such unpopular ideas that they couldn’t talk anyone into going with them. I wish we had demographic information indicating which races were represented in that group.

(All info obtained here.)

Now… according to census.gov, the US is comprised of people who identify as white alone (non-hispanic) at 75.3%. As you may recall, 86.5% of the rioters were white, non-hispanic.

This means that more-than-general-population amounts of white people were represented at this thing.

I don’t know how to address this, and I myself am white enough that I classify myself as white on forms. So it feels like it’s a conversation we need to be having. I wish I knew how.

Footnote: I’m bad at math and doing my best. I promise I welcome corrections.

I love seeing posts like this.

I just feel better knowing there are other people who hate this like I do.

I’m right with you on warmer in the summer, colder in the winter.

I take a couple of medications that make me very sensitive to overheating in the summer and my time as a caregiver really showed me how heat can absolutely destroy people with poor health. You just can’t risk that your AC will break when it’s 110 Freedom Units outside and you’ll get truly sick.

Adjusting the AC for seasons, and then making sure to get time outside (if only at dawn or dusk) is just the only way to keep yourself adaptable.

I’ve met a handful of cowgirls, and they all liked being milked.

This is now the worst comment on my profile.

Barf.

Poor baby. I hope that they don’t pay the terrible price for their parents’ stupidity.

This hurt my feelings but that’s just because of all the trauma.

For anyone reading this who went through some stuff, the fear instinct that you get when you remember the past has a silver lining, in that it can often buy you a second to figure out how you want to respond.

You’re loved, you’re needed in this world, and I hope that you will get to a place where you don’t have to be afraid anymore.

(If you get the chance, I always recommend moving to another state/country. Get space from your abusers if you can.)

And feel free to send me a message if you need to talk. I might not respond right away.

You got a snort laugh out of me in an otherwise stressful thread. Thanks.

It is not an “excuse.” If I’m attacked by a man at night, I will have a more difficult time protecting myself than if a man was attacked at night, on average. Not to mention that you have to ask yourself, what is the attacker after? Because being sexually assaulted or raped is so personal and awful that it’s natural to have a higher amount of fear of that outcome.

Like how if you were equally likely of being jumped at night by a stranger as you were of being abducted and having spiky metal spears shoved in your urethra… you might recognize that’s it’s not super likely you’ll get jumped, but you would be way less likely to risk it since the fact that sounding is just too awful to chance (for the vast majority of the population).

Also… my sample size is too small to be statistically relevant, but 100% of the men I know are sure they could “take” a random female attacker.

Unrelated; asking that question was difficult but not for the reason I expected. It was like a game! “Do I have super powers in this scenario?” “Is she armed? Am I armed?” “How much time do I have to prepare?” And my personal favorite, from a particularly well-traveled friend- “Is she like a random person, or one of my exes?”

Edit: The last guy has crunched the numbers and decided he could take all of his exes, unless they team up, which he thinks is unlikely, so I’m continuing to count that toward the 100%.

I enjoy quietly asking, “do these tips actually go to you?”

I’ve gotten a discreet “no” headshake more than a few times. Then you can feel justified taking however long you want to select zero.

I don’t love that you jumped to listing a bunch of terrible things you projected onto him. Famous dude like that probably did, but listing making out with an underage groupie as if it were just a cheeky thing is kind of awful.

I looked it up and apparently the photo is backstage at the International Hotel in 1969.

In 1973 he was apparently hospitalized for an addiction to pethidine (I had to look it up- Demerol) and when he died, they found several drugs in his system, so my guess is drugs.

Finally. An oasis.

Oh and I’m not not a nudist because of prude things. I run chilly so if I don’t have clothes on, it’s because I’m uncomfortably hot. Just a quick of my biology- I come in two settings, blankets and hoodies, or soaked in sweat.

I’m not anemic anymore either so 🤷

I’m not really planning on pushing the issue, for all I know Janet got cold feet and is using him as an excuse

I was actually going to point this out. I’m glad you anticipated it.

But also I want to add that I’m a woman in a relationship with a man who would support me doing whatever I want in life, and if I wanted to go on a trip to a nudist place and he didn’t, I wouldn’t want to go. Not only because I like spending time with him most of all people, but also because, while I don’t imagine I’d need to defend myself at such a location, I prefer to have him around in case I ever feel the need for violence. He keeps my hands clean quite nicely.

But it’s mostly the “he’s my favorite person so if enjoy doing something more if he were there” thing.

The funny thing about this is, my partner is a nudist, and I’m not. I asked him if he would want to go to a nudist resort if I wanted to say no, and he said he’d rather spend time with me at home than go somewhere to be nude (and he doesn’t wear anything at home anyway).