Sounds to me like they knew she hated it, but she lauged it off to belong. Going back to my point: If you don’t want to get hit in the balls, don’t touch a woman in a way that she doesn’t like.

Listen, “if you don’t want to get punched in the balls, don’t touch women when they don’t want you to” is a good rule of thumb for life. As someone who has both acted like an asshole and been punched in the balls for it, I’ll give this a pass. It sure as hell taught me a lesson.

No.

Yes. Men ballsmacking each other is part of the homosocial milieu in our society—affection tempered with violence to belie the taint of “gayness.” Women hitting men in the balls is a transgression, a refusal of all sexual dominance represented by the testicles.

As a ball-haver, I’ll say this. Getting hit in the balls is awful. But if men are going to be bigger and stronger (generally, there are a lot of women that could kick my ass in a fair fight) then women absolutely should go after the balls when threatened. I taught my sister that, I taught my nieces that, and it’s the…

I’m sorry, having your friends laugh at you being routinely groped and so feeling like the best you can do is laugh along is “putting up a front you can’t maintain”? Fuck that. You grab me, you get what you get.

Yes it’s so infuriating that ball-kicking is considered OFF LIMITS. If men don’t want to be kicked in the balls, maybe they should stop ASKING FOR IT by doing fucked-up shit that makes you have to kick them in the balls!

This is so good. And mirrors so much of what I feel. Hopeless and angry and just so fucking full of rage at the class of men that I don’t know what to do with myself.

And the man who killed his child whose mother gets more prison time for child endangerment.

Stand your Ground is for white men. There was a prosecutor in Florida (IIRC) who explicitly said that the law shouldn’t count for domestic violence victims.

I think we all know why.

Can someone please explain to me why many states are totally cool with Stand Your Ground laws/using deadly force to “prevent death or great bodily harm” but this little girl faces life in prison for shooting someone who repeatedly threatened to kill his entire family with that very gun?

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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I don’t believe “companies stepping to pick up the slack” is why healthcare is so fucked up. Insurance is why healthcare is so fucked up.

Can’t really blame companies for not wanting to get into the daycare business. It’s not only expensive but there is opening up to liability. And they are devoting all these resources to something that isn’t their main function.

If I were a fancy UK buyer I’d buy it, tear it up and repatriate the jewels to organizations that support people from the gems’ geographical origin. The UK’s riches came at the cost of the colonized and it’s time they get some of that back.

The US sucks. I didn’t have an epidural, and the nurse clotheslined me and then got one of her buddies to hold me down flat. Maybe an L&D nurse can comment, but my impression is that American hospitals go on an assembly-line model: everybody gets an epidural, everyone lies flat with feet in stirrups, everyone gets an…

I thought the original poster sounded a little victim blamey to be honest.

Does anyone else on Jezebel have this? Pudendal neuralgia/ vulvodynia/etc? I’ve had it for years and it’s awful. I have ice on my crotch as we speak. Funnily enough, I've had two doctors recommend I get pregnant to see if it makes it better. HAH.