that's terrible ... i'm really sorry to hear that ... take good care and, please, consider calling the national sexual assault hotline — 1.800.656.hope — they can hook you up with free, local counseling and health resources

well, jezzies ... be grateful, at least, if you are not a native american living in rural america, where the indian health service facility upon which you rely for care is so underfunded by congress that rape kits, rape-trained personnel, or forensic cameras are very likely to not even exist ... and, even if you can…

it can work over your phone's hotspot ... maybe you can connect to that at work?

less than 24 hrs into using this app, i pronounce it brilliant ... i have finally cleaned up/downloaded an unwieldy mass of snaps and vidis and gotten a morning's work done while still texting on my desktop ... yeah, i've got to be on a common network to use it, but even if it's occasionally useful, it's hella useful

anticipating that our child might one day grow up and want to procreate, my partner and i chose not to hyphenate ... we agreed that, if our baby was a girl, it would have my last name and his last name for a middle name ... a boy would get the reverse ... any sibs would be subjected to the same scheme, so that while…

oh, crap ... i missed "no bra" day, too! and i just found out that i missed "french fry" day today as well ... next week, i'm going naked every day and eating all may favorite foods, so i don't miss any more worthwhile holidays

oh, the paying customers! as opposed to this woman ... the assorted large-breasted women ... the lesbian couple ... the obese folks ... and greenday's billie joe "baggy pants" armstrong ... all of whom were flying for free ... of course they got kicked off! and of course it doesn't matter if consistent-income types…

the lasted in a series of people kicked off the airline for really subjective and/or moralistic reasons

i'm sure that southwest kicks white, business-suited and ostensibly straight males off of their family-centric flights all the time for being under the influence, because those guys are notorious for hitting the airport bar before they board ... what's that you say? only an african-american female in vacation togs?

it depends where that person legally resides/resided ... but in general, using someone's personality to promote a product without their permission is usually a no-no ... and, specifically, in california where jobs lived, his personality rights extend 70 yrs beyond his death and are a property right owned by his heirs…

i think it's entirely possible for an assault victim to cope by becoming insensitive to their experience ... if i don't feel bad about the experience, then the experience couldn't have been that bad ... so they might also be invested in preventing others from portraying their experience as a devastating, life-altering…

news flash for the folks at o&m: apple is gonna kick your ass for using job's likeness in an advert

i think it will be kind of hard for mittens to pick a vp candidate of color after spending so much time and effort race baiting ... he's flip-flopped on choice ... he's flip-flopped on healthcare ... can he really afford to flip-flop on bigotry?

it's so different for a woman comic to say "almost every day i try not to get raped" than for a male comic to say "almost everyday i try not to rape" or, worse, "we need someone to rape that uppity woman over there, right now!" ... change the rape to lynching, and the gender difference to race, and the result is the…

as a rape survivor, the thought of being in a room full of men laughing at rape jokes terrifies me .... it terrifies me in large part because my ptsd causes me to dissociate when i feel threatened ... so the good news is that i wouldn't have spoken out ... the bad news is that i would have gone out into the night…

no ... just too accustomed to living in a racist society ... i, too, spent years thinking how typical it was for disney to make the monkeys black, because i assumed that king louis was a lampoon of louis armstrong ... i was shocked to discover that he was really an italian-american guy with a penchant for silly dancing

it always amazes me how bigots are so ready and able to "otherize" members of their own species, even though the difference between our races is so superficial as to be non-existant ... hell, president obama is half white, but in these folks' minds, his black half makes him another animal entirely, one who is looking…

"we should work on not holding these magazines as a beauty standard at all, and learn to recognize models for what they are – glorified clothes racks"

you wouldn't be the first person to do so, as it's an easy assumption to make ... but king louis was modeled on and voiced by dixieland gang-band leader louis prima ... who was italian american

romney's alleged commission of a financial felony will be inconsequential ... his constituency will give him brownie points for defying oppressive government regulations ... never mind that those regulations are in place to protect investors ... you know, romney's constituency