What’s infuriating is that I work (specialize) with adolescents who offend (yes, there is hope!) - and his non-apology would be torn to shreds - he is not accountable nor anywhere near being accountable.

When people bring up the specter of false accusations or wrongful convictions, I always ask how it is different from any other crime. Or any other lawsuit. Yes, it is he said/she said many times. So are all sorts of other cases. Yes, there will be wrongful convictions/expulsions and that will be a tragedy. Just like…

Change “drunk raping” to “drunk driving” and change “will have to emotionally deal with the fact that I was raped for the rest of my life” to “I’m in a wheelchair for the rest of my life” and there is no way this guy only gets three months.

Yes. And the extraordinary number of times he uses “I” also speaks to his sickness. It’s all about him.

You might not be able to get your dream job now? It’s almost like actions have consequences!

2016 America: Where a 12-year old boy is shot and killed by the police for playing with a toy and it’s his fault because he should have “known” that people would see him as a threat, while a full-grown adult who rapes an unconscious woman and tries to flee should only have to endure a couple months of jail because…

How do you know he is not doing nothing? Everything counts, even raising daughters. How do you know if thanks to the way this daughters are being raised, they will be able to make a change?

There is nothing “fundamentally wrong” with humans. We are not born defective, we aren’t born evil. We are made that way. We grow up with violence, structural and personal, and spread that violence among our community. That is not inherent behavior, it is learned and it can be unlearned.

So Clinton is smart (“very smart”) and talented but Trump has some kind of special sauce so he’s...a better candidate? That seems like some very backhanded praise indeed.

How am I as a feminist supposed to respect people from India, or Saudi Arabia when women routinely get stoned for acts their husbands perpetrated, for daring to want to drive a car, or because they don’t want their clits cut off because it makes them ‘dirty’.

Right. How should her husband and his family have known her family would do this? Because his wife had lived with that family and her mother her whole life and was afraid of them, that’s how.

I recently realized, whereas males are full humans in a family like this, girls and women are sort of like livestock. They are around to serve certain functions, and when they start breaking out of their enclosures or cease to serve their functions, they can be ceremoniously killed. They are not even loved, like a…

A culture in which a mother burns her own daughter alive should’t be criticized? Fuck off with that moral relativism bullshit...

Never pressure or force someone to be with their abusers.

How mommy make big babby?

Because she’s the one covered in bruises?

The only saving grace of this story is that she DOES have some family who love her and care for her and want to do right by her. So many people don’t have that.

Yeah, I’m old enough to remember the Gore 2000 and Kerry 2004, and even the Hillary 2008 concessions, and how PISSED I was, because they didn’t try EVERYTHING (and on the internet, there’s always another thing that could be done) and they just “gave up.”

#GirlIGuessWeGotALIttleSpoiledWithObamaAndThisIsWhatElectionsAreUsuallyLike #lesseroftwoevils

In the dark. As they rode by. They see the activity behind the dumpster. Something seems wrong about it to them. They turn back to investigate. They intervene. They call for help. They hold the perpetrator until the authorities arrive. They provide eyewitness testimony. They don’t seek the limelight, in fact they shun…