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Dune Your world is 62% Sophisticated, 57% Unconventional, and 33% Intense!

You live in the worlds of Dune. Preferably the last two books in the series, in terms of timeline, as that's when things are genuinely intelligent, probable, and weird as hell... but not too intense. Not intense, I should add, because you're probably a Bene Gesserit or trained by one, which means you've learned to take anything and everything in stride. You can probably move faster than we can see, comprehend a complex obstacle and the potential solutions at a glance, and stop your heart with a thought. But you also probably won't ever fall in love, listen to music, or do anything else which will evoke too much of that inconvenient thing called emotion. But hey! To you it's probably worth it to be able to move any muscle in your body at will or traverse the collected memories of your ancestors.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Sophisticated You scored higher than 99% on Unconventional You scored higher than 99% on Intense

Link: The Which Imaginary World Fits You Test written by Azurain on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Okay, sort of awake. Meh.

It's a fucking rant.

So Foley is saying he was abused as an adolescent. This is of course being announced at a press conference, where his spokesape is vehemently denying that sexual conversations with and propositions to minors on the internet, sometimes while on the House floor holding up a vote, is in any way pedophilia. Hm. Conveniently timed admission, no?

As most on my friends list know, I am a sexual abuse survivor. Watching the news the past two days has been hard, and painful, and sometimes triggering, between Foley and the asshole in PA who felt like molesting little girls again and decided to shoot some little girls to cope with the urge. He eventually shot himself, but really, he could have done that *first*. Far more effective way of dealing with your urge to hurt children without, you know, actually hurting anyone.

But anyway. Yes, I'm a survivor. Yes, I went through hell as a child. That IN NO WAY makes me any less culpable for my actions towards other people. It is *never* an excuse. Ever. And I just know it's gonna be a big old Republican "poor man was abused as a boy, we can't blame him for this!" shit-flinging party. His superiors still knew, still abetted, and are still surrounding themselves with children at their own press conferences today. I don't even want to get started with the political assholes renting day care centers for their press conferences, so little kids can be faced with a room full of bright lights and cameras and strangers talking about explicit sexual IMs while their smiling security-Moms stand and look proud. What. The. Fuck. Ever.

So Foley is a survivor (taken with the largest grain of salt I can cram down my esophagus without causing permanent damage). Great. You think somewhere in his work on the House Committee for Missing and Exploited Children, which I would imagine included education about actual results of child abuse (same esophageal caveat applies), he would have realized that maybe, just maybe, he needed some, I don't know, professional fucking help?

He's a survivor (Sucrets, anyone?). He's still an adult human being, fully responsible for each and every one of his actions. And the about-to-fire-up GOP (Grope Our Pages) pity-the-guy-while-denying-any-actual-wrongdoing crapfest is going to make me hate my species, I just know it.

From all survivors who have managed to live our adult lives with out hurting another child, who recognize that we are culpable for our actions, who have never dragged our pasts out on CNN live because our political asses are in the fire: Mr. Foley, go fuck yourself.

And after you're done with that, find a therapist. Work through it. It hurts, it sucks, it will turn your life upside down. Do it anyway. It is completely on your shoulders to break the abuse cycle, the same as it is completely on mine, or anyone else's.

Fuck all of them: http://www.armchairsubversive.com/.
And if anyone has a corresponding list for Democrats, please forward it to me. I want that one, too.