I’m screaming that’s the best descriptive writing I’ve read in years.
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I’m glad you made this choice. Even so, if someone’s boss told them to act in this way, I would expect them to say “No,” just as you did, even if it meant them having to toss their press badge on their boss’s desk. Ethically and morally, there are lines no one should cross and this is one of them.
Not to mention, there are police, board members, a whole host of adult professionals whose job is to interact with members of the media in these situations. It’s completely inappropriate to turn to students; if you desperately want a witness account, turn to a teacher or administrator, or literally ANY ACTUAL ADULT…
They’re already commonplace. I graduated high school less than five years ago and we had in-school shooters drills starting when I was in elementary school. My middle school had a bomb threat when I was 13. By the time I was a senior, we had them about 4 times a year, and the school had officially changed its policy…
Journalists do important work. But anyone hounding a child (because teenagers are still children) after such a traumatic experience for comment or an interview or image permissions is a piece of shit. Anyone doing this while the event is actively continuing needs to take a real look at their life and wonder how they…
He was about in tears when Mirai landed her triple axel the other night. His heart is so full of love and joy.
Yeah, domestic violence is a very tricky topic. On the one hand, you’re trying to educate women who’ve never been in the situation so that they never find themselves in that situation. On the other, you have a multitude of women who have experienced it and who are trying to recover from it, whom you are trying to…
We only had one cafe in our little town that had pancakes on the menu and they’d open at like 4AM on pancake day and then stay open until 10PM, even though their normal hours were something like 7-4. It was amazing.
Pancake Day is still big in the UK. I’d not heard of it as an American until I moved there. This is my first year back in the US on Pancake Day in four years so you better believe I shouted “ITS PANCAKE DAY” at the first person I saw, only for them to ask me if that was my way I saying I wanted pancakes for breakfast.
I appreciate your point of view. I am, admittedly, a survivor of child abuse. As I see it, the way society values certain characteristics in women is tied to the fact that society often allows for the perpetuation of abuse towards women and children. As a child, society/responsible adults should have stepped in to…
I think that goes a long way in explaining why it can take so long to recognize abuse for what it is, but I absolutely do not think that traumatic bonding is fully to blame for domestic abuse being so prominent in our culture. And personally I don’t see how any mention of Stockholm Syndrome is viable to this…
In the way women are socially conditioned, there is often an emphasis on remaining and enduring when relationships are difficult. Commitment and self-sacrifice are often something women are expected to have in relationships more than men. This conditioning often causes the line of thought that a ‘strong’ women should…
Honestly I’m pretty sure America’s in its current position because some of the ancient deities decided it would be a super fun high-stakes new way to play Don’t Break the Ice.
How in god’s name did he manage to still get a security clearance after OPM found the restraining order/domestic violence?
Whatever chucklefuck first decided that abortion is the moral equivalent of murder, and that late-term abortions are tantamount to inhumane medical treatment should have been burned at the stake.
No idea if this is helpful or not, but could the reaction have been to the horses? I’m deathly allergic to horses myself. (And, if it is the horses, then at least you have an excuse not to spend more time with the in-laws.)
Are we...are we the same person? (Maybe minus the makeup, but I definitely have unnecessary spending issues with clothing/skincare at this point, so close enough.)