It pains me to say this, but I recently found stats claiming sexual predators of children have a pretty low recidivism rate once they are released. Because this is one of the only crimes for which our criminal justice system actually puts forth effort to treat and rehabilitate. Prior to prison, they tend to have…

Yeah,I'm at least pro- vengeance feelings. I know I don't need it to move on, and I agree that it can't be policy, but I will most likely wish evil on him till the day I die.

It took years for me to find the wherewithal to confront it. It’s still a truth I grapple with. But ones things for sure, when people say “I wouldn’t wish ____ on my worst enemy,” I feel like they haven’t had serious enough enemies.

Her becoming drugged in public gives him tons of random witnesses who can attest to “how she was hanging all over him” and “totally into it.” It sets him up to be able to gaslight her about it afterwards. Or he could have meant for it to be some sort of white knight scenario: someone else had drugged her drink and…

Rape is about control because it’s the domination that gets them off. It’s not about being denied a specific act, or a specific person, or sex in general. It is the forcing someone to submit to them that they like. I had literally just finished the exact same sex acts with my rapist and was leaving when he raped me.…

Friends then?

Already done. I find it the perfect complement for all daily tasks.

Hey, all those fixes lead to (a) more people in jail or (b) fewer mouths to suck at the government teat. All without having to challenge a man’s God-given right to access to the women he’s claimed. Talk about a win-win!

It is. She’s made a life for herself, has her own little family now, but I do not understand why she still stays involved with the rest of them. Blood or no, I drop people for that kind of betrayal.

And Special K with strawberries was the only cereal I was willing to eat. Sad trombone.

This happened to my sister-in-law. Her mom had brought her in for a “touch-up” but the woman performing the circumcision decided to give her the “deluxe package”. SiL’s brothers refuse to acknowledge this happened at all; they prefer to think she’s just a pathological liar, and even if she’s not, it’s a woman thing so…

A. Fucking. Men.

I see how the not shooting the enemy would be a problem, especially once you’ve passed the canon fodder stage. On the other hand, I’ve never gotten the impression that the Allies or the Axes were short on rape in WWII. And the stories that come out of the modern UN peace-keeping and humanitarian missions are blood…

Say more.

It’s not just about the gender integration of the services. While percentage-wise female service members are a greater risk, the majority of military rape victims are men. It’s about rewarding aggressive, violent dominance regardless of target or situation. And yeah, this shit absolutely has to stop.

I feel like describing it goes one of two ways, and the gentle one is the more accessible for people who’ve avoided the misfortune we’ve had. If you start with the horrible version, their mind balks before the point has been made.

As another survivor, I was trying to find a more pleasant, light-hearted example of reliving memories through your whole body.

Ya know how some memories are visceral? Like, I was talking with a coworker last night about whether or not I’d ever had bacon dipped in chocolate, as opposed to a bacon in a chocolate bar. I said I was pretty sure I’d only had the latter because the former would leave such an impression: how it would feel in the…

Yeah, I had to figure that one out the hard way.

I like imagining that these three gifs correspond to each of the three sections of this ad: Britney to the bolded, Lucy to his “fantasy,” and Yvette to his pricing.