I was sexually abused as a child. I lied about it even to sympathetic seeming people as a knee jerk and self preservation reaction. Even when I could admit some of the abuse, I would lie, deny, and hide the rest. Because people act different, look different, treat you different when you disclose. It makes you feel…

because there is plenty of evidence to corroborate their stories. And we know for a fact that Michael slept with young boys, he admitted it on National TV. The giant hush payments as well

That NYT Bikini article you referenced is next level. Before I even clicked on it I knew which bikini it was. There’s enough twists and turns in that story for it to be a movie.

There certainly are adults who have an emotional connection with children, sometimes more so than they do with adults. Mr. Rodgers was definitely someone who connected emotionally with children, probably in part as a way of healing his own inner child. But like, he didn’t shower kids with gifts, he didn’t pick out…

ack, should have proofread better. poor grammar and editing, please forgive me. I meant “celebrity (who bestowed gifts and made for a good quality of life, materially at least)”

can’t lynch someone who is already dead...

Please stop defending him in any way shape or form. There are no mitigating circumstances with child molestation. He was a scumbag predator whose deeds rest solely on his own shoulders. Of course he had help-but no one was forcing him to destroy these boys’ lives.

I didn’t express myself very well there. I didn’t mean that established law shouldn’t be followed. I meant that I’m giving him side-eye and assuming he’s trying to silence victims of his shittiness, rather than defend his pure heart. By “history”, I meant that most people who claim to have been sexually harassed or…

In one way, you’re correct. Allegations have been made, he’s disputing they’re true, he’s trying to get the names of whoever made the allegations.

The assertion that men with submissive kinks won’t commit rape is pathetic. The fact that this guy invaded women-only spaces shows his willingness to violate women’s boundaries. I read an account in Tin House where he nagged a woman who was hosting him to let him sleep in her bed. No sex, of course. He’s a…

The man who stopped my career in its tracks is on this list. I didn’t know there were other women who had suffered the same thing (his name is in red, so there are multiple accusers ), I didn’t know his name was on it, I didn’t even know the list existed. Guess how I found out? Stephen Bloody Elliott’s lawsuit, that’s…

Some children reject their birth parents when they get older. Sometimes, you try to raise your biological child the right way and they turn out to be some kind of scumbag. At least, if you adopt a kid, you have somebody else to blame when shit goes bad :)

I would like to mention that just this morning I was in the room (major network); out the mouth of one of my co-workers, at least 3 weird and creepy serial killer rape jokes (involving a manequin being undressed). It seems nothing has changed because these dick-faces still think all of it is fine and they don’t…

I’m less than 6 weeks pregnant and it’s already hugely disruptive. Every pregnancy is different, of course, and there are people who can go through some, much, most, or even all of their pregnancy without it affecting their life much, but if I didn’t really want this baby, this would be HELL. I already had to miss a…

Exactly. I read the book The Girls Who Went Away (highly recommend), and one of the stories that really stuck out for me was a woman who was forced into a home for unwed mothers as a young girl and had her baby taken away to be adopted. She said later in life she had an abortion, and she never once regretted it, but…

exactly! there is a woman there, a whole pregnancy, with its 9 months and all implications. it’s not that simple.

Few things here, if you don’t want people to think you are racist, don’t were a MAGA hat. If you think, oh, that could be my son, you need to raise your children to be better people. And lets not forget, this whole thing happened because a Catholic high school decided to take a bus full of teenage boys to a protest…

Sandmann explained: His classmates, are not “racist people,” they—like he—come from a school that does not “tolerate racism.”

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Denver, waiting to hop on the train heading to California. Standing behind me in line was this middle-aged mom, whose son gave her a big hug and told her to have a safe trip, before leaving the line and heading (I presume) to his home. She fought back a few tears as he walked off, so I…