lol - the victim was white so that may end up being the charge, assuming that he ever gets charged with anything.

Fuck you and fuck the author.

Prove it.

What the fuck are you going on about?

Right, Maryland is totally run by the GOP.

I’m not being willfully obtuse, I’m just not agreeable to drawing the distinction you want me to make.  I won’t make it because I think the distinction isn’t one that should be made.  Battery is battery and should be punished the same way.

That’s because you’re married to the emotional aspect the author paints which is that domestic violence is per se always worse than any other kind.

And maybe they had sex that same day.  She’s hanging out with him in a hotel room.  It’s 3 in the morning.  They’re drunk.  The fact she just met him that day excludes the possibility they’d had sex earlier?

I’ve already agreed that it’s likely that many women that get late-term abortions do so for medically compelling/necessary reasons. That’s why some states have an exception permitting them in cases where the mother’s life is in danger. I think that’s still open for some debate, but if forced to take a side I’d say…

Explain to me why the woman that Hunt punched is not an “intimate partner” of his.

The author uses a definition of DV and that’s what I’m working from. There is nothing in the definition that requires a “serious relationship” or that anyone live with someone else. Who is classified as an “intimate partner” is not defined in this article but, to me, it can cover a broad range of people that goes well…

Their feelings are not imaginary, but arbitrarily treating one set of victims differently than others makes no sense. As I mentioned before, if you feel that getting slapped by your husband is more emotionally damaging than if some stranger just walked up and popped you, that’s fine. It’s an opinion and maybe you…

I don’t know.  I watched the clip and Behar kind of did go off on a bizarre tangent about pollution.  WTF was she talking about?  What sane person watches that fucking show?  Why does this site recap this bullshit?

The flaw I see in that reasoning is this.

You seem well-adjusted.

And so even if there are situations where I think the reason is not a good one, I don’t know why I, or society, should substitute our judgment for what constitutes a “compelling reason” with the woman who actually would have to carry the pregnancy to term.

Why? Because you felt betrayed by someone you love? I’m sure that someone that gets beaten by a random stranger also feels betrayed by a fellow human being.

Just out of curiosity, does any reader at this site give a flying fuck about The View? They could set each other on fire and the world would keep on keepin’ on.

The only reason that the Democrats haven’t done it “equally” is because the 2010 elections were such a GOP landslide that they not only lost the ability to do it in many states, but they lost it so badly that they’ve still not recovered.

I did read it and do not find it convincing. Breaking the jaw of a random stranger should not be punished any less, or more, than breaking the jaw of someone you live with. The argument that victims of domestic violence are sustained to worse abuse in an ever-widening cycle of violence is not true. If you hit someone…