“But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

Semper Cri

What’s really needed is punishment for lawmakers who pass laws later deemed unconstitutional. There’s really no deterrent playing the appeals court waiting game outside of backfiring the “fiscal responsibility” claim, but...yeah.

but there’s no such thing as rape culture, right?

Please let me know that this isn't the darkest timeline

That was such a nom sequitur.

THIS, and also, her job requires her to put on a sexy persona and tiny outfits. As the mother of a 9 year old boy, I know how much he hates even walking into my room and seeing me in my underwear right now. I think its a mix of “dang, mommy has to go to work now” and “omg mom please stop its embarrassing”. If THIS is…

Both my parents worked & I couldn’t wait for them to leave, especially in the summer

I don’t remember ever being upset when my parents went to work. And they both worked full-time, my granny looked after us during the day, took us to school, etc.

My parents worked at home and I spent my entire childhood dreaming of the day I could get away from them.

I get that what she did was upsetting and that you feel she deserves more punishment, but can I say I dislike this knee jerk thinking? Automatically thinking everything deserves time in prison, and the tough on crime mentality is how we ended up being the country with the highest per capita prison population in the…

So, let me get this straight. Female nipples are lewd and require police action, but balls dangling on a plastic seat (that’s been warmed by the heat of a New York summer) and displayed to a captive audience are totally fine and not actionable? Nice, NYPD.

Yeah, it’s totally “corporate whoredom” to expect to be fairly compensated for your work.

It’s actually true— the ambulance didn’t come equipped with a time machine to go back two weeks so his parents could take him to a doctor.

There is a very wide spectrum of learning disabilities, so she could very well fall at the far end. Frankly, from what we’ve learned of the douchebag asshole fuckwitted shooter, he sounds like the sort of person that would marry someone who’d struggle to be able to disobey him or argue back properly. He would love a…

Um, my conception of patriarchy is pretty dark.

I am as narcissistic as I am passionate; I must recognize my own importance, and let it devastate me. What can I do but go on?

Listen. Everything you said is legit. No matter what issues you face in life, you have those thoughts of “what could I have done better, differently, more of, less of, etc.” It’s only natural to think of it that way for trauma as well. Just know that in this instance, it was NOT your fault and you did what you needed…

if you froze & you couldn’t move or say anything... that is hella normal. You didn’t do anything wrong. Your body did whatever it thought the most viable survival plan was and it WORKED because you are still here. So don’t blame yourself for what you did or didn’t do. You did exactly what your survival instructs made…

the not knowing how to stop the rape (I don’t know if that’s the right way to say exactly) because of growing up with sexual abuse from such a young age is really tough. I started being abused at a slightly younger age than Cho, but similarly I didn’t know it was even abuse until much, much later. And it was sort of a…