Actually, it’s kind of the exact opposite--this shows how very difficult it is to convincingly fake an attack, and how easily the stories of people lying about being assaulted crumble under investigation. Nobody is sincerely equating “believe victims” with “don’t investigate crimes”; that’s a straw man used by rape…

“Believing the victim” means exactly what you just said: a crime has been reported, we will investigate it fully because we believe a crime has been committed, and we need to get to the bottom of it.” As facts emerge, sometimes, so does skepticism, but if you first reaction is to say, “well, he might have been making…

Travis Barker.  I’m not proud of it, people, but I still would. 

Luckily, I am child-free, husband-free, and about 70% free from my mother, and I try to improve on that every year!

WHY DID YOU AVOID SAYING “BAD OMBRE”

Have you ever heard the legend of.......... Crystal Metheny?

I have heard her parents are thirsty AF. Maybe they are behind her texting these adults as a way to network. Which, in my mind, is worse.

Yes, from what I can tell “Knacker” would be considered a slur in Ireland (I’ve not personally heard it used this way in England/Scotland), but to be “knackered” is a different thing?

I think they’re two different things, though. Both groups are synonymous with “vagabonds”, but Travellers are mainly of Irish descent, while Gypsies are Roma. (I’m using ‘Gypsy’, capitalized, as an outdated ethnic description, and ‘gypsy’, lower case, as a generic term for someone who wanders)

Maybe it’s like the difficulty of finding one word to describe all indigenous Americans because many of the tribal names as we know them originated as slurs, like the word Sioux, which was a French bastardization of a word from an enemy tribe that meant “snakes.” You really have to refer to someone as Lakota, Dakota,…

I agree that Gypsy is still a commonly used term in the U.K - but I also think prejudice against the community is still just weirdly socially acceptable. At least where I am from. To the point where it’s a commonly held belief in one village that “the gypsies” drove away all the ducks from the local pond.

This.

*remembers a cake site that used to be a thing; rushes to Google*

I second the “coolgirling” suggestion. It is now on the table for debate.

Good one. Coolgirling?

Yeah, the we’re using our art as therapy bit is funny. More like we’re gonna turn our marital problems into a cash cow ;)

This is WITCHCRAFT and as someone who struggles with concealing redness and scarring, I LOVE YOU for sharing your magic.