Or "How to Miraculously Keep Your Prestigious Job at One of the World's Biggest Newspapers While Completely Sucking Balls At It In a Manner Akin to a Fiery Car Crash Despite The Certain Fact That There Are Probably Hundreds of TV Critics Who Would Write Better and Fuck Up Much Less In Your Position"

Very good point. Sorry for your experience, but that kind of insight about how it's actually DAMAGING to view it as being only between the couple or the family is really a powerful point that needs to be made over and over and over again. Because honestly, it takes a lot of empathy to understand it that way, and if…

In my very personal opinion (based on experience, as a child, but an opinion nonetheless), one of the biggest reasons domestic violence is rarely appropriately punished, and one of the biggest reasons women struggle to leave, is that domestic violence is seen as one of those things that is personal and between the…

Well that's just a whole bunch of sad right there. Sad because she thinks it's a ratings ploy, sad that she defends her husband, sad that it reminds me that even after everything that went down she made that man her husband, sad that it took the second video for this punishment to come down when the first was horrific…

Well, seeing as schools are kinda the essential step of the School-to-Prison pipeline, I'm not all that shocked that teachers feel the need alienate and intimidate their students, especially those of color. Call me when teachers start to give a shit about their students again.

the educators in Staten Island and Queens

And the media is complicit in this also. All the people who showed up at Ted Bundy's ranch with guns blazing were called "supporters" and the protestors in Ferguson were referred to as an "angry mob" on Saturday, 24 whole hours before any kind of looting started. Sometimes it all just seems so hopeless, and feels like…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

Well, I think sandina has come across a point here. The article isn't precisely precise about how long it had been going on while people were watching, and they wouldn't be the first couple on the planet (whether she was under influence or just him) to have sex in public. Not wanting to be photographed having sex in…