It may be dementia, but until White House doctors/psychologists quit lying about it for political gain, I’m going with the previous diagnosis, which is that he is the healthiest candidate ever to run for president in history. I am not giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. He is a shitty, terrible person until proven…

Submission and obedience would be used as tools to achieve those goals, several women said. The sisterhood would comprise circles, each led by a “master” who would recruit six “slaves,” according to two women. In time, they would recruit slaves of their own.

This is a man who, if the technology existed, would not hesitate to create the Daleks.

Also “the wife” is meant to denigrate her. She’s “just a wife” in his eyes. 

I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but there are two things that have truly shocked me about the conservative/Republican embrace of Trump.

He called her “The woman” and “The wife” in his comments and had clearly forgotten her name (if he ever bothered learning it).

I have a kid in class who is a big Trump supporter and he is everything you would imagine a Trump supporter to be. The other day, he asked me who I voted for, I told him Clinton and he said okay and walked away. About 10 minutes later, I was walking by him and he said “so, it turns out this Trump thing was a big…

Yeah, Ronnie had all the momentum, and his only real competition on the R side was Bush, who came off as kind of a weenie despite his impeccable credentials, particularly as held up against Reagan (I still laugh about B-Movie actor Ronald Reagan being held up as a bastion of virility while WWII Combat Pilot HW Bush…

Yeah him seeing the light after several decades shouldn’t get any sympathy given how many hundreds if not thousands injured or attacked as a result of the NF in the last few decades.

Yup. Had a dude friend who was SUPER woke, very gentle, dedicated his life to social justice causes. He married a good friend, and I always thought he was one of the few good ones. Until I became single and he started messaging me a lot more, and then started making frequent sexual “jokes,” and pushing boundaries…

I feel pretty confident that my feminist-ally rapist still has no idea that he’s my rapist.

Oh sorry, you’re totally right - I honestly meant that more as a self-flagellation for not speaking up about my own abuser when he makes ally posts on social media. For some very concrete but complex reasons, I genuinely can’t call him out publicly without serious repercussions for myself and my kid. So, I stay…

I don’t remember the context but I called out a guy on my Facebook who used to grab my ass (until I hit him in the balls to get him to stop. Hey, Josh!).

I was happy to have a guy amongst my friends post #ItWasMe along with text saying that he had been complicit in sexual violence and harassment and was committed to not doing that anymore. I thanked him and said this was a good thing, and also wanted men to step forward and pledge to no longer look the other way when…

I don’t personally care whether people feel compelled to post #MeToo or not. However you feel about posting that is part of your experience, just like your decision to press charges, or remain silent, or tell HR, or find a new job, or whatever.

Try saying Quentin without a tongue.

I wonder if this is more of the ‘CSI’ effect in action, where juries think that every single bit of evidence has to be perfect and in place, or else the whole thing falls apart.

Sadly, while that would indicate a pattern of behavior, it still doesn’t help prove the accused did the crime. It’s like having two kids: one always acting up & doing stuff and the other a perfect angel. Then one day as teens, you come home to a broken lamp. Neither kid admits doing it but do you punish the “bad” one…

Considering this is a group of people who had to have the meaning of unanimous explained to them at least twice in relation to a pretty commonly known foundation of jury trials, I’m not as surprised as I would be.

Something this story doesn’t mention: When Tellis was arrested for this crime, he was incarcerated in Louisiana awaiting trial for the torture and brutal murder of another young woman. He bragged to friends that he tortured that victim to death to make her give him her ATM pin, and he used her card to withdraw…