'See, women? We're doing this for your own good! It's to prove how strong you are! The GOP totally has your back. Come back to us now, please? Pretty please??'

But the republicans are trying to fix that! If you just stay home in the first place, you don't need family leave! Why won't you women just shut up and pop out babies like their bible orders you to...?!

Probably because, as a woman, you forgot to voluntarily submit to your husband when he told you to get off the Internet, which was obviously intended as a space only for men.

It's the Republican motto: Choice/freedom/money for me, NONE FOR YOU, MOOCHER.

Right, but how does any of that punish sluts who have non-God-sanctioned sex?

I'm cackling. Actually cackling. And shutting my door before anyone gets suspicious.

hundreds of thousands

I have like, chills of jealously. Seriously. I might take a trip back to Texas just to try to accidentally run into her somewhere.

I lived in Austin for 2 years and still have (stubbornly Republican) family as well. But I, too, am holding out hope that they might come to their senses...

She was a working mother who wanted to make a better life for herself and her family. How is she different from anyone else?

yeah but its £16.95 to ship to the US, on top of £24.95 price, plus £4 tax. So it ends up being a ~$60 board game. Ugh.

And he's also a fan of the phrase "for all intensive purposes." If I didn't think he was an idiot before... ugh.

He wanted me to come to the message board he was on and get ganged up on by all his little pimple-faced basement-dwelling buddies. I tried reporting them to the site moderator a couple times, since what they were doing was clearly against the TOS, but nothing happened and they eventually moved on to other victims.

Classic gaslighting - I swear some people are just born with this innate ability to do it.

My harassers eventually left me alone (I posted a comment with one of several exchanges I had with one of the guys) but I know its because they moved on to other targets. So yes, it stops, but my guess would be that when it stops for you, it just starts (or escalates) for someone else.

This is just one of several comments I got from the same guy (he calls himself Billy Hamdouchey) on a blog post I wrote about a girl who had an X rated pic of her and a guy accidentally end up online. He then posted my pics on a website called The MainBoard and invited all his buddies to harass me as well.

Eh, she's probably just living in Texas.

How is this legal?! Shouldn't they then also ban the use of your salary to purchase shellfish or polyester-blend clothes, too?

Her obstetrician wasn't helpful and didn't seem to know what to do, suggesting that Jill visit a psychiatrist. But she couldn't find a provider with any immediate availability, and so the depression went untreated.

Yeah, definitely sarcastic. I figured my comment history was probably strong enough to pull it off, though with Poe's Law, it's hard to say something idiotic enough that some nutjob wouldn't say it seriously.