I think you mean Hutcheson.

“The pursuit of happiness” is often quoted but never understood. It was originally coined by Francis Hutchinson and described the feeling of selflessly helping others which would make you happy. If I remember correctly Thomas Jefferson was mentored by one of Hutchinson’s students that came to America from Scotland.…

We’re the only nation that ever has said, the pursuit of happiness is important to our citizens.

Nothing wrong with getting rich. Especially self made people. But I hate the ones that, once they get there, they do everything to pull the ladder up behind them. Pay your fucking taxes, man. Your lucky to be in this country where they are relatively low. And where you can use your money to influence the law. And…

I was 8 when this all went down. Until just a couple weeks ago when this was being discussed on TV in our employee break room, I had been under the impression that Lorena did what she did because she had found out John was cheating on her.

It can be hard (or too scary) to acknowledge how incredibly recent any acknowledgement of marital sexual violence has been, at all. As the article states, it wasn’t even considered a crime in many states until twenty years ago. Nobody wanted to think about the kind of unending, day after day year after year terror and…

Honestly, is it extreme? Years and years of physical and sexual violence, I don’t think much done in self-defence is rightly considered “extreme.”

I’m not sure anyone got past the punchline, up to and including all the adults. It was almost always framed as “look at what this crazy hysterical woman DID”, and very rarely did any conversation of motivation or abuse arise because it was always centered on the action, a joke about the last name, and rarely the…

The Jokes Cover Up the Rape.

Same. I was 13 so just the mention of penis had us all giggling. In a small way, maybe the silver lining is that we’re in a better place now — not that violence against women (sexual or otherwise) has stopped, but at the very least it’s acknowledged more? If it happened today, at least SOME people would be able to…

Once again, by the sole virtue of being a white male, the victim in a crime is, against all logic, completely redefined. Glad to see we’ve come so far from the 90s. Oh, wait.

I never got past the punchline. I was 16 years old and incredibly naive when this happened. I feel sad that so much of pop culture reduced her to a “crazy scorned woman” trope and am glad this documentary is coming out. 

I watched this over the weekend and was rather surprised by the obsession with how charming he was. He wasn’t meeting these women in bars and inviting them back to his place after hours of drunken flirtation. He was literally pretending to be injured and asking for their help carrying stuff to his car or whatever,…

Absofuckinglutely. Our fetishization of serial killers is just as disturbing as the fetishization serial killers have of their victims. Whenever I see people wearing shirts with Manson’s face on them (which, now that I’m not in high school anymore, isn’t as frequent), I wanna ask if they’d wear a shirt with Hitler on…

What’s left to learn from Ted Bundy?

The fetishization of serial killers needs to be erased from our collective lexicon. This is pain and suffering writ large into the public consciousness. Charles Manson has become some sort of garbage icon with his face on t-shirts and the semi-subject of Tarantino’s next film (Q, I used to love you, but stop it with…

That “what if your father raped someone” question is absolutely fucking disgusting. I know the lawyer was just doing her job etc but JFC.

Why on earth would this girl tell the entire world that this happened? Why on earth? Do you know what it’s like for survivors? Do you know what it’s like to tell people? Don’t you roll your eyes at me. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Fuck yeah, Stefani. Drag that future Fox Correspondent.

JFC, go Gaga. I can’t imagine that line of questioning. What a fucking scumbag lawyer. What the F does her opinion on a hypothetical situation involving her father or her opinion of being falsely accused have ANYTHING to do with Kesha? Fuck that asshole. So infuriating.