I mean I am all for therapists helping people find a way to deal with their reactions, but I’m not going to waste any of my own emotional energy helping men deal with the fact that the system they created is hurting them. All adults have a responsibility to handle their own shit and seek therapy if they need it. 

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This whole report is literally aimed at helping men (and boys) be happy and healthy. And because they are so fucking insecure, these idiots have decided it’s a war on men! Christ. 

While you are out there writing speculative fiction about DNA-based internment camps, here in the real world most rapists never get prosecuted. Sorry that I prefer to focus on problems that exist instead of hypotheticals that don’t.

YAASS I always take sick days now that I can! Not being able to take a sick day without losing pay (or worse, losing the job) is so horrible. My supervisor is really good about it, too. I mean we are allotted a certain number of sick days per year, but in some environments you are expected to not actually use them.

It seems like you have an easier time getting a warrant on the staff, but I don’t know if that’s true or not. I just don’t care if someone doesn’t want to give their DNA in this situation. Some things are more important.

That’s alarmist and silly. They should have to give their DNA for this because probably one of them did it and the investigators have to be able to eliminate people. Considering how rarely the police give a shit about rape as it is, I don’t think they are in danger of going after a rapist too aggressively anytime…

Yeah I feel like you can just move to an area where people don’t set off fireworks if it bothers you.

Well I am not calling the police over it, but there’s limits to socially acceptable noises imo. There’s this one guy who sometimes ends up directly outside my building/below my window around midnight. He will yell and scream wordlessly to himself for over half an hour before wandering off to do it somewhere else.…

I don’t know how you know that there are youths who don’t know that rape is wrong in this facility, but I think it’s common sense that rape is more often committed by someone who has some degree of power and control over the situation. Caregivers abusing those under their care is not exactly unheard of. Why not test…

It’s just common sense to test the male staff members first. If that all comes up negative they can keep investigating.

I don’t care, honestly. Every man who worked there in the correct time frame should have to give their DNA, period. 

So you just missed the whole existence of rape culture, huh?

Are you actually comparing the % of men who are rapists to the % of women who drown their children?

After I think two negative results, and me continuing to have pain despite trying other things* the doctor advised, my doctor said that it was possible bacteria from my skin got in the sample and beat out the bacteria that were causing the infection so it looked like I didn’t meet the bacterial threshold. So she made…

A lot of antibiotics! The infection would seem to clear up after I took a regular course of antibiotics, but was actually not dying completely and would reemerge again. For a while I took a small antibiotic immediately after each time I had sex, since we determined that was the culprit. And the standard advice about…

ooooh god, this brings back a lot of memories for me! Thank you for sharing your experience. Sex started out painful for me and it seemed to take forever and ever for it to begin to become bearable. I always thought it would hurt the first time and then I’d be set—but nope, I bled each time for a long time. This is…

When one half of the country are embracing literal nazis, I don’t know how you think appeasing them is going to improve anything. You can’t work together and find common ground with people who put children in cages.

I mean washing meat just spreads bacteria around your kitchen, food safety is not cleaning the meat. 

Yeah, and another sad trend is taking three different packaged processed foods and just dumping them in a pan.