Please add “reality” TV that exploits minors — Dance Moms, The Dugger Disasters, Honey Boo Boo (basically anything on TLC) to the list of “entertainment” that should be avoided or boycotted.

Rio was on my list of places to travel to, and I truly do go to the places on my list. Even with the danger that the media states is in Rio and Sao Paolo, I still wanted to go. But when I started hearing about the waters and beaches and how gross they are, Brazil was removed from my list. If the beaches aren’t nice…

Oh my god, this! People who have never been poor do not understand how important it often is to present themselves as well as possible, to be the
“good” poor person who is clearly “trying.” If you can scrounge up the clothes and make yourself look presentable, maybe that job will hire you, or at the very least maybe…

This is the first thing I tell anyone who expresses doubts about a woman’s rape claim. Serial predators target the disenfranchised or the isolated. They seek out women who will have trouble being believed and some get sickeningly good at it. I think once people wrap their heads around this it becomes a lot easier to…

I absolutely think Holtzclaw targeted victims he thought would be less likely to be believed.

Yeah, plus the worst people know how to game the “real victim” thing. psychopaths are less likely to be found guilty of crimes because they are so good at acting in the way they are “supposed” to act

I absolutely think Holtzclaw targeted victims he thought would be less likely to be believed. He preyed on poor, minority women - many of whom had some kind of criminal record - because he knew they would be less likely to come forward and he thought he would get away with it.

“During her testimony, she became very emotional and cried. You could just see something different in her when she started talking about the rape and when it happened,” said Speaks.

If he’s the pimp he doesn’t have to force her compliance anymore, that’s already been secured.

Exactly. If she hadn’t claimed to be making tough decisions because journalists should hold candidates accountable since August, this wouldn’t be so much of an issue.

Incidentally, “kid gloves”, also the name of the mittens from the children’s department that Donald Trump must buy to fit his tiny hands.

Fuck this woman. As much as I’ve hated her, I cringed for her and supported her just as I would any woman being attacked by a Trump-type. No “you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas” finger-wagging either. And now she will paste on her fake smile and say whatever bullshit she needs to say in order to help this…

ya, more of a commentary on HIM, not the victim.

#blacklivesexceptunderagegirlsIcanpimpoutmatters

This is what predators do to get their victims, so I’ll just wait for all the evidence to come forward. The entire movement isn’t awful but this guy might be.

You mean like when the headline says “Conservative caught in sex sting” or “Trump supporter sends racist tweets” or maybe “Republican Senator indicted on money laundering charges”.

“Hindsight is 20/20 and in my desire to help her as she was displaced, I did not protect myself,” Wade writes, “As I did not know her or her prior behavior other than substance abuse that I was told she had ‘kicked.’”

This all day. It’s not even about “rejection,” it’s about being unable to handle being told no. The number of times I’ve politely declined a man with a “no thank you” only to be cursed out or called a dumb bitch is astounding. Hey, stranger, I don’t even know you well enough to reject you. I’m just passing and I don’t…

I know, it kind of made no sense, but it was the very first time I had ever met them, and I'd been there for all of ten minutes. Plus, she was totally alone with the teacher—in the classroom, she'll be with twenty other kids and a teacher's aide. Parenting paranoia, I realize, but nevertheless, it freaked me out for a…

Sweet merciful heaven! Don't you think that being molested as a child could MAKE you troubled and drive you to substance abuse? (Especially if your parents betrayed your trust by not protecting you and by not pressing charges, and especially if it was endemic to the industry, and especially if you felt you had to keep…