You know those giant American flags they cover the field with at football games? Yeah it was that size of red flag. 14 years old and already a complete sociopath.

Did you explain to him that everything that is done to the Handmaids in the story has actually been done to women at some point in history, somewhere in the world?

I have no problem admitting that the book is flawed, but I didn’t find any part of it titillating, and I’m a little disturbed to learn that there are people who do.

I dunno in freshman year of high school I had a person I thought I knew tell me he had watched the 1990 version and it was great “baiting” material. Cut to me being completely fucking horrified. I didn’t talk to him much after that.

The only people I know who think it is unrealistic are men.

They say when you hear hooves think horses not zebras, and I feel like hmmm a successful black woman, mistakenly reported for years to be Muslim, responsible for making legal decisions that have surely pissed people off in the past, found dead during a time where racially motivated crime is on the rise.... I’m no…

Right after she died all the headlines said she was muslim, but the local NY news clarified that while her husband was muslim, She never identified her self as such. At first I thought, this is just another case of people judging by the name etc. Then I saw the family suicide news, and thought, how sad, that poor…

“has been operating as if it should be called 18th Century Fox.”

Whether you like their product or not, their CEO seems to be a pretty great guy. He’s done a whole lot of good for his employees. It’s a super easy choice against Alex Jones who is probably rancid whale spooge personified.

Amazing piece and captures a lot how I feel sometime. I’m fully aware I have anxiety and as you said everyone does, just stems from certain situations. For me it’s mostly social and the dread of hearing bad news that send some me into a panic. It also effect me on a more personal level as I hate being ridiculed for…

This was me. I was at a party I was not supposed to be at. I was all of 15. My parents still don’t know 13 years later. I just couldn’t bear to hurt them.

Yeah I was raped at a frat party by a guy I had been making out with and his friend, when I was 19. Didn’t tell a soul for about a year, and when I did I told the story as if it was consensual. I’ve only told three people and my therapist now (aside from anonymously mentioning it on Jez before). Half of that small…

My little sister was raped. By her partner. With whom she lived. She got pregnant. She went to family aid, and the social worker went with her to the police. She told the officer, and he laughed at her. Because it was a small town, and the officer was a school friend of the rapist. After that, she did not tell…

A few years ago I was raped when I was really drunk by a guy a knew casually. I remember making out, him trying to force himself inside of me, me telling him “No” and stating that I had my period and had a tampon in. I remember him saying that it didn’t matter, which confused me. I didn’t want to sleep with him. I…

I relate to this so much. Except I was 24, graduated from university, and had a good job - though I was saving funds for university so living at home. I was at a party with some friends (which included cousins, and a sibling, earlier on but they had left earlier in the night), and there was a dealer who dropped by…

I agree. I think it’s very common.

My daughter is nearly 10 and I already tell her that we all use bad judgment sometimes and I will always come to her aid and I will always be her advocate and I am the president of #TeamDaughter.

I say this now so that if she does end up in a bad situation, she will (I hope) remember that I’m on her side always.

I had a similar experience — I was sexually assaulted by a member of my friend group right after I finished high school. He was someone I thought I knew pretty well and he asked me for a ride to his friend’s house as we were leaving the same place. I said sure and he gave me directions, but when we pulled up to the…

And here I was thinking “how could people turn their backs on someone who’d been raped?”. Ah, naivety.....

It is. When I was in a life threatening abusive relationship I kept it a secret for almost a decade after leaving it because I knew my family would be in emotional pain from it. I knew they would be believe me, thankfully, but I knew they would hurt. I didn’t want that for them.