Remember the Florida woman who left her abuser recently? She got a protective order. She left. He came back, violated the protective order. She fired warning shots at him & she's in prison for doing so.

Yes the teenage girl is insane, not the adult boyfriend who tried at least twice to kill her.

I had a friend that was in an abusive relationship. Well, more than one, unfortunately, but this one came to mind when I read your post.

I'm ungreying. What do you mean "So much more complex than it seems"?

And what....get a restraining order? A restraining order doesn't do shit when you're dealing with a desperate and dangerous individual. I've been in that situation, I've been threatened, my family was threatened. It's easy for people to say, "just leave him". It's not that easy. You don't think right when your…

I'm guessing this is the first time you've ever seen this facile little slight of hand, but it's as popular for explaining why women are stupid and to blame for their own rapes as it is for why women are stupid and to blame for their own murders, and it always goes exactly as it went here:

No. Theocraticjello is right. Women are most at risk to be killed by their partner while or immediately after they leave him. No one who works in domestic violence prevention would ever encourage a woman to just pack a bag and leave her violent boyfriend or husband overnight. Successful exit plans (meaning exit plans…

The whole "recommendation" thing is such an aburd straw man I shoudn't even have to address it, but okay. This thread started with someone claiming the victim in this case would be alive if she had only left her murderer, which beyond being victim-blaming as fuck, is a statement that has absolutely no basis in…

4 months ago, my coworker was strangled by her boyfriend (who was also a coworker.) She wanted to go to college and follow her dreams. He decided that wasn't an option.

Why would you murder someone if you could just break up with them? And when your first murder attempt failed spectacularly in a 100MPH accident, maybe that was your sign to leave well enough alone (and also a break-up note in the ER)?

The authorities can't watch you 24/7, and space isn't always available at the shelter. If you want to keep working, your abuser knows where you work and what time you get off. They know where your parents live, so forget moving in there. Have kids? They can grab them from school, threaten to kill them, too, etc. …

"Statistics or not" is really fucking easy for you to say when your life isn't the one on the line. And beyond the fact that if it was really the "safer" option, it wouldn't be the most common point for an abused woman to murdered, believing that authorities will swoop in and save the day in cases of domestic violence…

Not to mention how domestic violence is largely ignored by local officials, allowing abusers to stay out of jail (or be released quickly) so they can do more damage to their victims. I'm not sure if this guy had a history of arrests related to violence (domestic or not), but there are so many cases of murdered women…

Yes, that's an entirely female thing. Those crazy, stupid teenaged girls—if only they could be as wise and mature as teenaged boys!

There is as statistic somewhere that shows risk of violence and death increases when women leave their abuser. Some women stay because it's the safest thing for them to do.

I will post this on every article about domestic violence from here until the end of time. If you are experiencing abuse, it is not your fault. If someone you care about is being abused, you cannot fix it for them, but you can be a support and decrease the isolation they are experiencing. From loveisrespect.org:

I know of a few people who've been labelled "self-loathing Jews" due to their pro-Palestinian stance — which inevitaby leads to accusations of being pro-Hamas — but none would be as high-profile as Ed Milliband. Not even Naomi Klein. I respect him for that, especially since David Cameron is not only staunchly…

Whether it's the Conservative Party in Britain, the Conservative Party in Canada, the Republican Party in the United States or the Liberal Party in Australia, each and every one of them lives up to the "nasty party" label in their own abhorrent and heartless ways.

With all that make up and prosthetics , she still manages to look cute:

TimBits are actually pretty yummy.