In the midst of accusations of sexism and sexual harassment by aides on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, the senator’s former campaign manager acknowledged Wednesday that there had been “a failure,” and Sanders is promising to make sure the same problems do not emerge if he runs in 2020.

Over the past week, alumni of Sanders’ presidential campaign have stepped forward to allege inappropriate behavior and unfair treatment of women. Numerous individuals said that staff on the campaign had not taken a complaint about sexual harassment seriously and had treated women unfairly.

On Monday, Politico reported that former Sanders aides requested a meeting with the senator and his top political advisers to “discuss the issue of sexual violence and harassment on the 2016 campaign, for the purpose of planning to mitigate the issue in the upcoming presidential cycle.” The letter did not provide details of what was being alleged.

Two days later, the New York Times reported a specific instance in which a Latino outreach strategist for the campaign complained to a supervisor that she had been harassed by a campaign surrogate, but the issue was not appropriately addressed.

Bernie Sanders Responds To Allegations Of Sexism, Harassment By Aides During 2016 Race

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we got the okay to post our full pieces!! here’s my full piece for the @devilsnestzine with greed squad 2.0 in a karaoke room!!!!!

#comforting and praising a bird as he’s dying so it doesnt feel bad #how do people hate you bb

People who hate Harry Potter missed the a giant part of the story. Despite being abused by his aunt, uncle and cousin his whole life Harry was kind, compassionate, loyal, protective and honest. He defended those who needed it and stood up to those who deserved it. He didn’t become bitter or hateful. And he spent his life trying to protect others. You can’t hate him because people chose to stand by him even if it meant they’d die. He didn’t want that, he wanted everyone to live even if it meant he couldn’t anymore.

It’s because he suffered PTSD in book 5 and was mistaken for a whinny angsty teen.

Here’s something really fucking funny about mental illness and fandom:

Fandom is full of people who superficially spread all the love and support for people with mental illnesses, trauma, depression. Many purport to have their own, even, and claim that they would have tremendous compassion for others with mental illness or trauma.

But watch how they treat the characters who have these things…but it is not explicitly labelled. Watch how they treat the character who lashes out in anger at their loved ones, who just sleeps the day away, who “whines” a lot, who cries a lot without explanation.

Watch how fandom behaves towards these “undiagnosed” characters, and you start to see why even though most people *say* they have sympathy and compassion for those struggling with mental illness, very, VERY few people actually mean it.

Rob Zombie confirmed for coll fuckin’ guy

ROB ZOMBIE CONFIRMED FOR COOLEST FUCKING GUY

i love that Rob Zombie is now Baby Metal’s badass protective grandpa 

Are they actually trying to gatekeep metal from Rob fucking Zombie? Go cry some more, here’s Babymetal with Abbath.

Rammstein accepted Babymetal as one of their own, that’s good enough for me.

Babymetal with Rob Halford

I am eternally depressed that I can’t stand the sound of metal and punk music, because the cultures surrounding them always sound so loving and cool (barring occasionally gatekeeping assholes and neo-nazis). I love that so many metal men have embraced these girls and their band, and even taken to telling off their own fans for bullshit gatekeeping.

Happy 2019!

To start the year off right, we’re running Teen Wolf Resolutions: Finish Your WIPs Month.

Here’s how it works:

1) Anytime during the month of January 2019, make a post listing the projects that you’re trying to complete and add @teenwolflegacy in the body of the post. Feel free to include links if any fics already have chapters published.

2) As you complete your projects, use our tracked tag #teenwolflegacy and/or @ us in your posts so we can find your work and reblog.

3) When the month is finished, make a round-up post of all the works you were able to complete and tag us once more.

You do not have to be a member of our Discord Server to participate, however we do invite you to come take advantage of our resources for the event, including a dedicated writing help channel, groups for writing sprints, multimedia aide, and a server full of enthusiastic fellow creators, all happy to help you along whichever part of the process you’re stuck on!

Theo you lying ho