I’m so sorry that grim stuff happened to you. I’m really glad you wrote this. There are so many threads here, and for all of us, intertwined. Your story is such complex one, but I am hoping, in addition to making the environment overall safer for women by de-fanging rape culture in general, that if those of us who…

Yep. And the game is rigged.

Yes... we should all dumb down the rhetoric and tone down on the criticism... just so some moron with no understanding of political process can come and vote for my team.

Why do you assume that any left-leaning person being critical of Democrats is not inevitably voting for Democrats? I think the vast majority of them are, but they’re very aware that the kind of uncritical tribalism you seem to be advocating for is a big part of what got us here in the first place.

Actually, because it will be earmarked for charity, it is tax deductible, so it literally cost them nothing

Actually they are comparable. Look at foreign policy, which you know affects the entire world. Stop living in your only the US matters bubble.

When it comes to social issues, you are correct. There’s a huge difference. When it comes to economics, then, no, there’s very little difference.

Sure does seem like people owe each other a lot more money than actually exists on Earth - either physical money or hypothetical money - don’t it?

That is absolutely not good enough! It’s your malcontentment and lack of devotion to the Party apparatus that has laid us so low. Had you shown the requisite rictus-like grin of adulation, we wouldn’t be in this simmering shit-pot of animus and despair. It’s all your fault!

A few months ago I had a job offer from a semi legit startup (Received Series B funding a year ago. Not as shaky as others) that would have amounted to a huge raise and a lot of other perks.

When our system elected Donald Trump, there is no faith left.

Maybe it will be a political scandal so devastating that it undermines public faith in our system.

I was a teenager/young adult in the 90s and I remember this. I remember girls being proud of “only having guy friends” and being “one of the guys”. It was the age of the cool girl, to be sure.

The HeforShe campaign, with Emma Watson got me sooooo sooooo angry. And then, one day, a guy I know who had a tweet pinned to his profile about this campaign (with a title like ‘we need men for feminism bla bla’)... assaulted me one day, when we were at a bar with other friends, groping my breasts and trying to…

I see you, Bette Midler. I was drugged - I think maybe GHB - by a classmate in law school. We were at a party and I had a one glass of wine. All of a sudden I was really out of it, and we ended up in a cab together. I blacked out in that I couldn’t see anything, like my vision was gone. He had to go in my wallet to…

The apologists share a similar blind spot to sexual predators. Sexual predators don’t believe what they are doing is wrong, when they are doing it. Most of them seem to be “shocked” or “stunned” when they are caught.

COTD right here! As an old, I have done my share of laughing stuff off and deflecting it. The only benefit I can see that we derived from this experience was this: It seems to have been easier for us than it is for the current generation to just dismiss, shove (literally), or walk away from men who were trying to…

I’ll say right now that I haven’t come forward YET because I’m scared to death of the money one abuser has, and the professional connections another has. I have no proof and no money for an attorney. I’m sure I’m not the only one trying to figure out a way to out them anonymously.

Pretty much every woman has laughed off shit because it felt like the only option at the time. This has worked out really well for sleazy men for a long time while making this issue invisible to many genuine good guys.

It’s crazy how much of feminism has been about pleasing and placating men all in order to be a part of patriarchal institutions.