You’re welcome.

I literally read that line three times to make sure I was reading it right. I chalk it up to cultural differences, because of course you can’t kill the children. Like, it’s not even something to muse about so why even utter it?

That sentence is terror inducing.

Yikes. These women are still going to go through so much. 

Right?! When someone has a medical emergency, lay people don’t usually jump up and say, “I’ve been doing a lot of Web MDing lately! Let me have a go!”

I think that ‘sweetie’ is the part that just cinches the whole thing. It’s such a sugary term of demeaning condescension.

Did they just assume she was a lay-person super interested in helping out? Is that really the time to be investigating paper work? Why would she volunteer her assistance if she had no medical training?

I get the thing about needing to ask for credentials...I do...but Delta didn’t address the whollllllllllllle awful dialogue that preceded the attendant asking for credentials:

Both my mother and I have wondered the same. Also worth noting: after President Obama was elected, it seemed like there was an increase of police brutality against black men (and some women).

Seriously! Just leave the poor sharks alone, dang.

Yep. Poor shark.

I’m with you.

To be perfectly honest, my first reaction was feeling bad for the shark.

Evidently she needed to kill him when he was conscious, so that

Yes to this. 40 years ago, Francine Hughes burned her abusive husband in his bed, and was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity —

It’s not all that uncommon to try relatively young children as adults. We as a society have basically decided that there should be a separate system of justice for kids because their brains are still developing, unless they did something really bad, in which case fuck that.

Yeah, only a few years ago SCOTUS had to say that we can’t sentence children to the death penalty and we still can sentence children to life as far as I know. It’s fucking insane.

The “pre-meditation” argument always strikes me as ludicrous in cases like this: self-defense (and that is what this is) that is not “pre-meditated” does not work with the abuser if larger and physically stronger.