People missing the point will try to point out that she apparently was only using a pistol at the time, so likely not a type of gun that is currently being targeted by gun control advocates. But the real point is the disconnect between the dream—I will use this to protect my family!!!—and the reality—that it is far…

...is this really that weird/depressing to the parents out there?

news at 11

If ever there was a tribute to man’s folly towards nature, it’s Florida. Heaven help us if Godzilla ever decides to do Disney.

“No, I’m saying plainly that any abuser who’s got guns isn’t leaving them laying around where anyone can get to them, unless they think they’ve taken any vestiges of resistance out of their victim.”

You are out of your mind.

The women’s OWN guns are used against them. Like, they maybe had one secretly for defense against an abuser. They pull it out to use it and it is turned on them.

There’s very little scientific study about the health effects of firearm access in general, because Congress has made it legally impossible to get the funding for scientific study thanks to the NRA, but the data that exists is clear: a gun in the house, no matter who claims ownership of it, ostensibly to be used for…

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. However, because women and men may have vastly different symptoms, I frequently hear heart disease referred to as a “men’s health issue” or a “women’s health issue”. One does not negate the other.

do you not recognize the difference between shooting yourself and being shot by someone else?

The big difference is 77% of white men dead from a gun die by suicide whereas 53% of women killed by a gun are murdered cause some dude saw them as property and was able to get a gun. I brought up race cause the senate and congress are composed of mainly white males.

I would say, “what’s it going to take for things to change? A congressman being killed by their spouse in a domestic dispute? A congressman’s daughter? Son?”

From the Detroit Free Press article:

Women are five times more likely to be murdered if their abuser has a gun.

I have a friend who had the presence of mind to tell a flasher “It looks like a dick, only so much smaller than all the ones I’ve seen!”. I love her.

So true. The only reaction subway creepers want from women is some combination of horror/fear/awe—I’m not even sure titillation is on the list. So if you do something else, they’re disappointed. I’ve probably told this one here before, but when I was a younger woman riding the subway at night and someone was doing the…

no one helped her to her feet.

guys, do you ever just feel like this country is too broken to be fixed? godfuckingdamnit.

I have 3 sons. One went off the rails. As part of getting back on the rails, I drove him to the bank to settle his debts. My advice: be honest and do the next right thing. I love my son dearly, but I was not concerned with leniency. I can’t check my moral compass when it comes to my kids- because if I do that, then…

The whole thing with those letters—and I’m in no way defending this rapist or his actions—there is a reason no one referenced the rape or even called it an assault: their lawyer. The defense argued that Turner did not rape the victim; that it was consensual. If anyone writing letters for Turner had acknowledged what…