I think it would still be abuse if he used it as a method to humiliate her privately. . . . .

You can find the list here! https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemw…

I have to say. . . . Nancy Grace is by far the worst, just awful. . . . but the media generally is really awful about interviewing assault victims. I mean, I love me some Terri Gross. . . .but even some of her questions to Smart were soooooo inappropriate (even for Terri Gross, who, though I love her, can be a bit of…

You, and whoever the 9 dipshits are who stared your post, either did not read the article or do not know what abuse is. . . . .

As someone who has lost both friends and family members to suicide, thank you so much for researching and articulating this message.

Your friend is 100% correct. I didn’t find him attractive at all before the show. About 1 season in, I was STRUGGLING to not hug the computer screen every time Tim Riggins came on, because I was watching it with my husband, but I’m *pretty* sure my husband was a blushing mess as well. TIM RIGGINS!!!!!! I melt.

I think that tons of victims don’t run away. . . . just like tons of rape victims don’t fight back. . . . freezing, or even rationalizing staying. . . . is just a normal human response, that many people experience. Particularly, probably, children.

To add to this post: I think this is the same reason movies like The Help can be frustrating. On the surface, yes, it is fine to tell a civil-rights story from the perspective of a white person and to have said white person play a valuable role in fighting for civil rights. But it becomes irritating when the…

Yeah, I think it wouldn’t be so outrageous if it didn’t happen in EVERY. SINGLE. INSTANCE. I am not sure if I 100% agree with my own argument in every case. . . . but I have a feeling that one aspect of these casting choices being so offensive is that it is so freaking omnipresent.

You’re described so many things so well here. . . thank you for taking the time to do so.

Take this with a grain of salt, because everyone seems to have reacted differently: I am a sexual assault survivor and I thought they handled it *pretty* well. The rapes scene are graphic, but short, and generally non-exploitative?? I don’t know. . . I can see why they would want to leave the scenes in, but I would…

I have not read the books. . . . Started “Outlander” years ago and couldn’t get past the spanking. . .

Her rancid bigotry seems to reach far and wide—racist AND homophobic. What a vile, vile person.

I just looked up “Iggy Azaela racist” on google (because I don’t know anything about her and I am procrastinating). And I saw this tumblr of her tweets:

I tend to 100% agree . . .but, while I think everyone needs to take a pay cut in Hollywood. . . .I guess it makes sense to me that women would want to get paid the same as men. . . BUT, that being said, the disgusting lack of diversity in Hollywood, and the pervasiveness of racism more generally, is a MUCH bigger…

‘Twas in my brain as well.

While I agree that most memoirs are poorly written, some (the minority) are well written. . .

—Some stories are better told as truth than as fiction.