It’s never the woman you know either. It’s never the opinionated, happy-seeming, confident woman being abused. It’s never the happy mother, the dedicated wife, the accomplished physician. That woman would never be abused. She would stop it. She would not put up with that kind of thing. Her upbringing didn’t…

Dear Maureen,

in my family, any mention of Jiffy Mix is a declaration of war.

Seriously...does anyone really think Jiffy Mix is that terrific? This junk is an abomination and insult to good food.

Yep. If women killed men with the frequency that men kill women it would be a bigger global issue than climate change.

He didn’t “have sex” with a 13 year old. He raped her.

I can only speak for myself here. I was sexually assaulted and almost raped by a work colleague of mine. Only two people believed and cared - everyone else either didn’t believe me or shrugged it off with the usual, What were you wearing? (pajamas. I was asleep in bed). What was he doing at your place? (I let him…

This made me cry. Thank you for writing it. I’m just shaking with fury, grief, desolation, then fury again. This is not right. I can’t even type my story. I can’t imagine if he was up for Judge on the supreme court and I had to do this. I do not think I could. This is just so fucked up.

What gets to me is I’m sure that every time he said that, he meant it. I’m sure the guy who involved casting agents and photographers to set up elaborate scenarios in which he could drug and rape women was also concerned with the language and dress code of the younger generation and how it affected their morals.

It sounds like the DA is much more to blame than the judge. He made the plea deal, while the judge just accepted it.

Strangulation is nearly always a precursor to more violent (often fatal) DV attacks. This fucker's wife needs to leave. NOW.

Right? He might as well be tap dancing and singing “I Will Offend Again”, waving sparklers that spell out “I CAN ONLY ORGASM WHEN THE WOMAN IS NEAR DEATH” and “STOP ME”.

Andrew Grannik has a history of not charging men with the sexual abuse crimes they commit. I’ve come to the conclusion he doesn’t care about women or girl children. 

Guys getting slapped on the wrist for rape is horrifying. This is beyond that. I am not a FBI profiler or anything, but isn’t he basically at stage 1 of becoming a serial killer?

Outlander is a mediocre show with amazing sex scenes. The chemistry between the two is magnificent. Here’s to relieving my halcyon days of satisfying 5-hour long romps through an awfully scripted period drama. Salud. 

Why don’t we ask the hundreds of women who were terrorized, humiliated, and lost years of career momentum and earning power? Whose relationships fell apart? Who never saw their harassers, and in some cases rapists, even have to directly apologize, let alone go to court?

Well said, and keep fighting the good fight. It took damn near a century for the armed forces to accept that PTSD and depression are so prevalent among veterans, and that the VA needed to expand support services for them. The VA still has a long way to go, but at least traumatized vets are no longer being told to “man…

This is it exactly. They’re attempting to come back, but there isn’t any real hint of even understanding what it is they’ve done wrong or why it’s wrong. There’s no indication they’re at all interested in changing their ways or learning from this experience, or even really acknowledging the situation, or even really…

I feel like these guys are hoping for forgiveness (or maybe just... forget-ness?), but they’re skipping the steps where you really work to acknowledge, not minimize, the harm you did, AND you take steps to make things right. Forgiveness shouldn’t automatically happen because time passes, and victims don’t owe it to…

Couldn’t have said it better.