Well, the Boy Scouts are still operational, too. Of course, the Mormons did an awesome job of covering up for them.

I am sorry for your pain. You are obviously still very angry, and that is perfectly understandable. The system is fucked up. It is fucked beyond belief. And a lot of us are working to unfuck the system, believe it or not. We aren't your enemies, I promise. Our words may not always be well chosen, and sometimes…

It is upsetting, and it makes me really, really angry. The remaining animal and another litter she fostered for them still needed medicine, and after a while, they just stopped taking her calls, so she had to pay for their meds out of pocket. It was ridiculous. It's not a shelter I support.

Frankly, those women are dressed about as sluttily as Fox news anchors.

Congrats! I think they're called soft claws or soft paws or something, so if you need to search again. Good luck!

You can get them on Amazon. I get them for my cats who scratch the shit out of everything, including me.

Well, and some of the animal shelters here have taken advantage of her a bit, I think. They've pawned off their sick animals or their unadoptables on her KNOWING that she will take them no matter what, and also knowing that she already has so many cats. She fostered a litter last year that the shelter told her was…

We (her friends) have tried to do so much. She does take pretty good care of the animals. They get food (high quality food, even), shelter, medicine, etc. It's just—for her, it seems like it's a duty, you know? When I'm at home with my kitties, I sit and snuggle with them and love them and take endless pictures of…

I have a cat that actually came and woke me up when the little girl I was babysitting had a seizure (she was spending the night—I don't just sleep through babysitting jobs). She's very protective of this girl and curls up by her whenever I babysit her.

I have a friend who has nine cats and two dogs in a little, tiny apartment. She's had multiple relationships fail because of all the animals. Occasionally, a boyfriend will talk her into getting rid of some of the cats, or one of the animals will die, but she always replaces them and ads more. The first time I…

It's weird, you know, because I have this heritage—my Mormon heritage, and it's a pretty horrific heritage. They've done some awful things, and they are still doing some awful things, but I love these people so much. Ugh.

I was also sexually abused and raped. But I care more about ending rape and abuse than dishing out blame. Do I excuse what my abusers did to me? Not in a million years. But I do, at least in part, understand the culture that allowed it to happen and allowed them to get away with it. I understand the culture that…

There is a difference between excuse and explanation. I don't see Ash-Teej excusing anyone. I do see her explaining the sociological factors behind a societal problem, and doing a damn good job of it, too. If we want to fix these problems, we need to understand where they come from.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for providing this info. I am not in a position to contribute monetarily to anything right now. However, I like to keep things in mind for when I inevitably earn my millions (or get in a more comfortable place financially). I'm grateful to you.

Ugh, so sad and so, so stereotypical. I'm ashamed to say that my parents were part of the damage done to the Navajos by Mormons. When they were youngish and had only two children, their prophet told them that Mormon families should adopt Navajo children and help "make them white" (really). And that's what my…

Just another tragic result of the attempted genocide perpetrated by the USA against the Native people here.

Yeah, her boobs just looked like boobs—very, very nice boobs. I go braless all summer. I guess I'm lucky I'm not famous or I'd have snarky pics posted of me proclaiming how disgusting I am.

The inclusion here seemed really body snarky. I thought she looked fine. Her boobs looked like boobs. So what.

Aw, she wants you to be hers NOW!

My cat does this to wake me up. She'll just push her head against mine over and over and over because she needs the snuggles NOW. It is adorable.