Somewhat related rant from the customer side of things:

Update: Rocky's owner was able to lure Rocky out of the woods when everybody was looking for him by bringing his "housemate" cat along to meow out to him; Rocky recognized his friend and came out. Now the zoo that is holding him has said that if the owners build a new pen for him at their home they can take him back.…

Update: Rocky has been found and by court order taken to a zoo.

SO sorry you went through that. Unfortunately, loads of women do, and we're all pretty much fucked from Monday through Sunday for decades later; good luck eliciting sympathy; the college grads at Jez are often the worst for "shut up" "that would never have happened at my school, you went to the wrong school" and/or…

And the blaming the victim thing NEVER stops. 20 years later. It's loads of fun!

Yeah, it starts being a "You're being too nosy/bitter/loud/outspoken/etc. about the violence on college campuses" meme pretty damned quickly.

Possibly relevant, although, admittedly, I am an OLD compared to many posters here:

So what backup do you want?

It was a friend who had that experience, not a client. As far as she is concerned, Oates can burn slowly and painfully to death in a fiery pit of her own miscreation—- I'm not quoting her exactly, it's a rough summary of her words. And yeah, she is happy to shout ot the rooftops about it since nobody else would…

Where were these concerned troll Princeton professors when the women I knew were attempting to report their (both on campus and off campus) rapes? Concerned Princeton professor trolls were in "silence mode."

I think you might mean "calling" rather than profession, since unless you're claiming welfare benefits for your child, you ain't getting paid, generally speaking to be a mom.

What, because you honestly think Lindsay Lohan is off her meds/drugs/etc/ and is acting incredibly professionally when she films something?

I agree; the spectrum is so varied, so wide, and many people who are now being diagnosed on the spectrum have a real chance of living great lives; that's why it's a little scary that as these genetic mutations are tracked, verified, and amnio can be done to test for autism, mothers might choose to abort without…

They're not doing amnio yet for these mutations, but as more data is acquired to identify these mutations, it might become possible.

Yes. Your point?

Try a little reading next time—- many promising studies are being done that are tying certain genetic mutations to autism, and while we're not yet at the stage where this can be done in utero (which would allow mothers to abort those fetuses if they choose to, just as 90% of women are doing when diagnosed with a fetus…

By 2022, 1 in 9 children is projected to be on the autism spectrum. That's the silent pandemic operating in the background of the rapidly-failing human genome that nobody seems to want to talk about, and it relates to the very tough decisions would-be mothers need to make. Because suddenly it's not just about, "Can I…

I have an extended half-Asian family member who, when she was six, barely had the IQ of a one year old, and now, in her teens, has not improved one single bit, despite loads of love from two parents, therapy, etc. She runs around spastically and requires 24 hour monitoring because she tends to smack her head into…

It's all pretty tough. Cover-up of sexual abuse within the military is deeply embedded, and the women I've counselled who have served and been victims of this type of assault almost always attempt to report it, often even have WITNESSES who can confirm their assaults, and STILL the Good Old Boys Club is in place;…

Michelle has had to have her cervix sewn shut during her last few pregnancies to prevent the baby from dropping out of her.