The really good abusers are great at telling stories of how they’ve been victims of their bitchy difficult lying wives - it doesn’t just work as a pickup line for dating, it can get a lawyer in their corner too. Choosing to believe that makes it a lot easier to take money.

Yes, when we were on trial, my husband’s lawyer was showing pictures like crazy saying “they look happy, there was not abuse”, I had a great judge, he told her to stop doing that because no abuser on the world would show pictures of their kids or wife scared.

just goes to show how you can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors. women who are subject to domestic abuse like this are very good at maintaining face to ensure that nothing is thought to be amiss. its why people come up with these bullshit stories like, ‘they always seemed happy’ yeah moron that’s…

Also, this attitude: “They’ve humiliated themselves, humiliated their families, and now they’re going to be held accountable for what they did.”

Yep! I’m not even against a defense attorney trying to gain sympathy for a client. That’s their job. But I don’t think LE should be making biased statements. I doubt he meant to, it’s just so deeply ingrained in men to excuse rape. Even subconsciously.

And what about women? The same could have happened to them. But they live with the consequences. 50 year old men assume they are entitled to produce children just because their subpar sperm may still work. An eleven year old child could biologically become a mother. Doesn’t mean she should. Same applies to a man. …

Unconscious erasure of the person who matters most on every single level of the story. Just astounding.

These statements always seem so well intentioned but fail disastrously.

“They should be ashamed of themselves. They’ve humiliated themselves, humiliated their families, and now they’re going to be held accountable for what they did,” said Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson.

I think I hate the harassers more. Theoretically, a few of the Facebook live people might have scrolled past inattentively or assumed it was some kind of staged thing (I don’t know how Facebook live works). The people who are harassing her now KNOW FOR SURE that she was gang raped and they are harassing her BECAUSE…

Meanwhile, police have relocated the girl and her family. In addition to the severe emotional and physical trauma of the attack, she’s also dealing with online harassment. WBEZ reports that Police Commander Brendan Deenihan said that people are “making fun of the victim” with “a lot of off color comments” on social…

1. Dems didn’t have a super majority in both branches.

This is exactly the kind of thing that seems designed to have the opposite intent of its stated goal. I mean, I get that it’s Europe and they barely go to work as it is, but this seems designed for people who don’t want to employ women to justify their discriminatory practices.

That’s not a small or trivial amount of lost productivity, and seems rife for generating unintended consequences.

There’s no way. That’s a potential of a month and week of missed work, which is a significant amount of time. If you took away the reasoning and presented the options to people about who should be promoted or get a raise, everyone will pick the one who didn’t miss a month of work

I’m pro this as they can be absolutely dehabilitating however it seems hard to square this policy with equal pay. Getting 36 days extra off per year kind of means you deserve to be paid less to be honest

I... can totally imagine that this would harm the status of women in the workforce. Anti-discrimination laws are all well and good, but as a matter of practical reality, I don’t care how much a company espouses its workplace equality policies, I just cannot see an employer who faces one employee who takes three paid…

I am so tired of the ‘women are more emotional while on their period’ argument; I am not more emotional - I am in more pain! Also, I doubt the language in the law would encompass this, but I wish that the law would acknowledge non-binary/masc identified/men who menstruate as well.

It’s a bit biologically irresponsible to be having your first kid at 50+. Other than the obvious issue of father’s age also effecting the health of their offspring.. You’re going to be in your 70s by the time your kid reaches legal adulthood, plus now kids are dependent on their parents far longer than simply reaching…

Maybe a 50 year old man should have thought about starting a family years before. He’ll be 70 or so when the kid graduates HS. Women have to consider the biological clock, men should as well. Just because the sperm still flows, doesn’t mean it should get a free pass to the young ova. Scientifically speaking, quality…