Many therapists run their own support groups and/or can guide you to one. Much luck on your healing journey.

Every advertising agency knows that if you badger some people enough, they will buy your shit. I’ve been fucked in this way.

I hear you. One of my BFFs has just gone through MtF transition and has actually become harder to talk to about womens issues - she womansplains issues back to me when I’m concerned about my own personal safety and insists I should be flattered by cat-calling etc, because her focus is ‘passing’ over being objectified.…

Yeah, I see it differently:

Never forget that at the time “The Professional” was in production, its 32-year-old director Luc Besson was dating a FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD, Maïwenn. She’d later give birth to their daughter when she was only sixteen.

I don’t have too much advice, unfortunately, but I’m so sorry you’re in so much pain right now.

One person I know made the point that she did leave.

I work in emergency services and we deal with Life Line type companies all the time. I’m not sure where you are but some of them are fantastic services and in addition to a fall-detected type alarm, many have a daily check-in time where if you don’t check in they will attempt calling you, and if no answer your…

I know you mean well, but no way in hell he missed a single thing. I think this writer of Vox puts it best, and I recommend reading the whole article.

There is a big difference between Grace’s experience (and the cultural conditioning that prevents a lot of people, including her for a few days, from seeing how disgusting and violating it was) and Ansari’s (pushing just as far as he can without technically breaking the law, backing off, then pushing again).

My husband is out of town but I sent him this bc he’s a disability rights P&A attorney. He said to ask again Monday when he’s at his desk but there is money available for the ramp and other modifications through waivers and assistance through centers for independent living. These exist in every state. If you want any…

I agree with the other commenter on number 2. If you don’t care for being around other people, then having access to a full kitchen that is shared is probably not going to be a benefit. From my own experience, there were many days I would hole up in my room to avoid seeing anyone in the kitchen out of sheer…

Yeah, I had to stop reading the comments and went back to read the entire original story. How can anyone read that and not see that he violated her? The fact that she said she didn’t want to go further, he said ok let’s get dressed and just hang, and then undid her pants!?!?!?! In what world is that anything other…

Yeah, and I saw someone make the point that some of the women that are reading this and realizing that was their experience and they’re still with that partner. That must be hard to deal with.

God damn that line about her first fan mail fucking breaks my god damn heart.

I’m sorry this is happening to you and at such a young age too.

I’m sorry for all that you have endured and I’m sorry I don’t have better advice to offer, but I think starting with a therapist would help and hopefully point you towards some support groups.

But she was OK signing a letter a few years ago to an LA judge asking him to let Roman Polanski off the hook for drugging and raping a 13 year old?

I remember the Olsen twins countdown on the local sports talk show.

Yes I recall Natalie Portman going through some backlash in the aughts after expressing dismay at doing some unscripted nude/semi nude scenes on short request from “prestigious” directors, one of which was Wes Anderson. The press jumped down her throat and she publicly backpeddaled. She had a lot of guts to try to…