"She has no body fat! But you just wait til she grows some. We are standing here in the street with a zoom lens that will make that shit look supernatural, and we will then discuss her obvious over-eating." -Star
I'm not normally one for being an unusual-name-hater. I'm just saying a white guy from Alabama whose name is Shadrack is bound to come from a Good Christian home that instilled those *Good Old Testament Values into its children. You know?
I am not in favor of anyone celebrating any holiday they don't know the history/context of. So whether or not a particular celebration is appropriate would, to me, depend on how an attendee answered the question, "What does Cinco de Mayo celebrate?" If they know less about it than they do the Fourth of July, then…
Since the first reply you received clearly didn't read your link, and would not be inclined to listen to any other human being anyway, I wanted to come and tell you I DID read it, and I appreciate it. As your edit says though, it's people like me who were already on board anyway who are most likely to absorb and…
But, is it a difficult experience because of some idea about maternity/morality, or do the secrecy, financial burden, lack of access, hostile protesters outside the clinic, and stigma contribute to the difficulty of the experience as well? Women know what pregnancy is, and they know what abortion is. If a woman is…
That would be awesome! I know a ton of pro-choice moms, and at least a couple who would wear that t-shirt to their kids' soccer games.
You do realize nobody actually treats it that way, right? It's more like, "Abortions for women who decide not to be pregnant anymore, for reasons that are not anybody's damn business."
THIS. Giving a child up for adoption can mean risking that it becomes one of those 50,000 who turns 18 and is cast out alone. Life is hard on young adults anyway, but without a family or at least a strong network, they are even more vulnerable. Plenty of unintended pregnancies end in adoption, but plenty more just…
I wonder if there is a reporting problem, even in San Francisco, of men abused by men and women abused by women. Certainly in other areas of the country, gay people might fear for their jobs/community standing if their relationship is found out, so they might not report. Maybe this DA just isn't seeing the numbers…
I know too many bartenders and wait staff in this economy, whose degrees have yet to pay, who have children, who have medical debts, to ever not leave someone a tip. I tip even if gratuity was added for the size of the party, as long as they informed of that early on. My friends work really hard, and they put up…
I agree, especially since San Francisco has such a large gay population. Abusive people abuse their partners. Although the numbers are overwhelmingly men abusing women, a city like San Francisco is likely to have a higher men abusing men/women abusing women profile than rural areas or some other cities. I…
As a society and culture, we are very bad at identifying rapists and abusers. Yes, indeed. They are socially insulated. They know that we tell women they're whores/deserved it/shouldn't have been so drunk/maybe it was a miscommunication/should have done something different every time something happens to them. Men…
Was there some coordinated Day of Annoyance declared by some subset of users on Deadspin or Jalopnik? Because the number of garbage responses by defenders of dv perps in this thread is strangely high, even for Kinja-era Jez.
I thought so, I just thought it would be helpful to throw it out there!
http://jezebel.com/trollpatrol/forum
Oh don't try. He's been reported to trollpatrol because he's obviously putting the fault on victims of violence, either referring to "limits" as tolerance for drugs/alcohol as Penabler said, or he's equating abuse with bdsm. Either way, this is a shitty comment from a likely shitty person. For your own…
WORD. He's been reported to trollpatrol, so he should be swept away soon.
I like this. They could have t-shirts/promotional stuff that says "Love and respect your partner EVERY day," or "There is no love in acts of violence." I don't envy DA's on the domestic/sexual violence docket. That's gotta be some frustrating shit to litigate, let alone plead down when you know you can't win or…
OMG, the Political Correctness Persecution Complex. It's so oppressive to not be overtly, virulently rude and hostile to people! Doesn't everyone deserve to say whatever awful, hateful slurs they want without the PC Police ripping away at their Freedom of Speech?