Wellllllllll.....since half of Americans read at an eighth grade reading level or lower, this sounds about right.

Insert: "But it takes a viiiiiilllllagge to raise a child" mixed with a backbeat of "But notttt MY CHILD who is a saint and would NEVER endanger a driver and fellow bus passengers with his/her behavior, putting all their lives at risk! Leave MYYY child alone! Only OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN should be raised by the…

Excellent points and tragically true. There are nice old people and crappy ones. Just as there are nice children and tiny psychopaths. So when people go "Think of the children!" as if the very fact that someone is in a small body means they're angelic and perfect, they are conveniently forgetting that most children's…

He who controls the printing press rewrites history.

"Sorry, but this doesn't make me sympathetic to anything in this story. "

"Yes, it's awful that this person was abused and evidently hasn't dealt emotionally with her past pain. Her story does diddly squat to be a lesson to other kids who are currently being abused or who were abused in the past."

Let's see, we have:

*puts on cranky oldster voice*

Cat translation: "You're MINE, all mine."

Good for you, standing up and not taking shit from people.

Hell, walking this fucking planet as a human being with a vagina isn't safe.

Have you seen any comments your son has posted online lately?

Just askin'.

So, Laura, how should women protect themselves online?

The Internet is just the externalized penis for all the various "boy clubs" that exist out there. If you attempt to expose the underbelly of any of these boy clubs, and you use the Internet to do so, you invoke all manner of crap. And yeah, it sucks.

Um, so I guess the moral of the story is: "Weather happens?"

I’m going to be my usual bitchy self here and say:

Yeah, this is all important info. I really thought more people knew about how this worked.

The victim is always to blame if she's female. Period.

Your hypnotic moment of cat zen:

"You want to reduce problems with priests and sex? Let them get married."

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