Rae Carruth suggests that one can aspire to be both.

They’re football players, not criminal masterminds.

You may have missed my point.

Antonio “Cab” Callaway

I know this site has a reflexive “fuck the NCAA” position but I think in this one instance you sort of have to admit that these players went about things the wrong way. I didn’t use the benefits of my scholarship to buy electronics and then pawn them. I just straight up used my scholarship money on booze. Cut out the…

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It’s a ridiculous false choice. The white supremacists and antifa are both fringe groups. Is one more detestable than another? Yeh the white supremacists are worse, but to say that we need to pick one is moronic. Probably 90% of Americans don’t ascribe to the beliefs of either group.

The far left and far right are both out of their minds. If you don’t see that then maybe this country isn’t meant for you.

...But there was a threat against her. She may not have been afraid, but he was physically trapping her. I don’t think the validity of self-defense should rest on whether or not you were afraid – after all, that’s the kind of thinking that enables cops like Darren Brown to justify disproportionate use of force with…

Haha! *high five* The writer just seems like she tries too hard to be “cool” with the stepdaughter to me. I don’t know what else it is but it totally bugs me.

You’re calling it an attack when the author herself doesn’t consider it that in the slightest.

I absolutely hate read this series. I’m glad I’m not alone!

Whenever someone tries to justify use of violence with anything other than “there was violence or threat against me”, they are wrong. She stated clearly that she did not feel afraid.

I think her telling of this story is a brilliant example of gaslighting that she needed to have defined for her.

He was being annoying.

He wouldn’t stop.

He grabbed her belt and made her sit down.

“He said something like; Ha! You’re not going anywhere! Now I feel like I can’t escape this stupid goofy shit. And I’m further pissed. And I specifically remember feeling like—not fearful. But just incensed at not being able to remove myself from the situation.”

Well shit I mean, if someone smashed a plate of hot food in my face, we fightin.

I would guess he was plucking at her skin? I’ve never heard it either!

Understatement. She confessed to serious domestic violence. People should get arrested for that type of behavior. Yet it is brushed off in the article and in the comments. How is it different from all the other domestic violence that is so thoroughly denounced on Jezebel?

I think a discussion about how hitting a partner in the face with a hot plate—which could’ve seriously injured him—is also abusive is missing from this article....

Your boyfriend was fucking around with you and you hit him in the face with a plate of hot food?