Exactly. And also, if she had been carrying a weapon, and defended herself, the headlines would have been “Prissy Honors Student Viciously Murders Man Who Just Told Her She Is Pretty.”  

As a female person, I had a lifetime of catcalls, attempted rape, attempted kidnapping, stalking and all the rest to contend with. (As a child I was molested by a neighbor.) One thing I found is that when I was aggressive in return, these men were less likely to mess with me. (Of course there’s always the chance this…

As well as all the people shrieking about how women need to arm themselves with guns/pepper spray/knives/tasers/etc. without even the thought of whether these weapons can snatched and turned against an already frightened and usually much smaller and physically weaker person. 

“No thanks, I have a boyfriend.” - His thoughts: ‘She’s a liar’ or ‘fuck her for fucking other men.’

The sheer number of #notallmen apologists I’ve seen on other threads, whining about “so what, now we can’t even talk to women?” or publicly patting themselves on the back for not being murderers and rapists makes me want to give up on humanity altogether. They don’t get it, they never will, and worst of all, very few…

Maybe I am psychic, but I am thinking your boss is generally a shit boss, right? Because people who respond to employees concerns about their safety in that way are probably totally inept at all aspects of people management. I am sorry you are going through this. It is not OK. 

This! Ever since the daylight savings time change when I leave work it’s pitch black outside the employee entrance of my job. I have to walk a block before there’s a street light and I’m the only woman who’s scheduled to leave after dark. I’m furious and scared every night when I leave. My boss just shrugs off my…

He would have assaulted her no matter what she said or didn’t say.

I’ve read quite a bit about this, and what I understand is that the computer program reflects the way our justice system works.

trying to parse out noisy variables to make the leap from correlation to actual causation.

Except the sex scenes in the books are usually fairly tasteful, not lurid at all, and I doubt GRRM had anything to do with the show nudity. There were plenty of stories that pinned almost all of it on one specific VP at HBO, who left/was fired.

‘You don’t wanna disappoint your Game of Thrones fans.’

Edit: shit, I thought this was the SUPPORTERS playing ger testimony and I briefly felt physically sick to my stomach.

Worse, it replicates a dynamic commonly found in abusive relationships.

Under the religious logic, viable doesn’t mean what you think it means. They operate basically on the dichotomy of dead fetus or not dead fetus. Because miracles. So they will wait up until the very last possible moment, until the mother’s life is in imminent danger, before they act. That’s the only way they can…

Was the nurse under the impression that they could stop you from going elsewhere if you were Catholic?

At about 3 weeks pregnant (I always knew very early), I had horrendous abdominal pain. I couldn’t even stand. I was in bed, sweating, and couldn’t move. When I was sent to a (Catholic) hospital, the nurse who did my intake asked me basic questions: name, age, previous pregnancies, religion... when I mentioned I’m…

This is just another reason why the US needs nationalized, single payer, healthcare. Churches shouldn’t be running hostpitals unless those hospitals are regulated the same as any other hospital and have to offer all of the same services, regardless of religious beliefes, to all patients.  This is pure bullshit.

I literally have pissing contests with myself. I just made that connection 

No, wearing blackface isn’t a crime. But it’s worth while for the cops to know who are the racist dumbfucks in the community, so they know where to start when the swastika graffiti shows up.