“Kidd went on to recount how she was finally ‘found,’which also included a side of mansplaining NYPD officer, because of course:”

It’s her mom’s business, at least. Seriously, would you have said this if the headline had been “Columbia student vanished 2 weeks ago, authorities don’t care?” Or would you have said something like “Oh of course, if she’d been a blue-eyed blonde the whole police force would be looking for her 24/7.”?

which also included a side of mansplaining NYPD officer

which also included a side of mansplaining NYPD officer, because of course:

why she went off the grid and moved to Bushwick (shudder).

I know when I am running low on money I just find a random dude in public, point and him, scream rape and wait for donations to come in. It is like pan handling only OBVIOUSLY it is a way bigger pay day. Like...i dunno...WINNING THE LOTTERY!

Oh, didn’t you know? As soon as you say you’ve been raped veryone starts throwing money at you and praising you - not dragging your name and reputation through the mud, examining every tiny move you’ve ever made, and calling you a lying slut. I don’t know what alternative world he’s living in, but I’d really like to…

“I’ve never told anyone that last part cause what kind of feminist am I?”

This story really bothered me, so I checked and Kristin’s condition has been upgraded to serious. So some good news there.

Guns in the home also make suicide more likely. Because it turns out, the conventional wisdom that a suicide will find a way is not actually true. Very rarely, a suicide is a well thought-out act; those suicides you probably can’t prevent. But the *vast majority* of suicides are not well planned. They are impulsive…

I’m so sorry you had to go through all that. I did the same thing; figured I was safer if I waited to leave until he was locked up. But, thanks to the $1200/hr attorney he had, the ATTEMPTED MURDER and KIDNAPPING charges were reduced to aggravated assault/serious bodily injury, false restraint, unlawful imprisonment,…

It’s also incredible how long we’ve been asking exactly these questions. I’m a teaching assistant for a an introductory English class. Part of the class is learning to close read (paying attention to language, literary techniques and conventions, etc) and we just finished a novel, published in 1797, called The Coquette…

·Also, why don’t women just leave abusive relationships?

The most dangerous time for a woman (or man) in an abusive relationship is when they leave, because that is when the abuser feels like he is losing control over her (or him).

Guns in the home make it easy.

This is why I waited to leave my abuser until he was in prison. Still didn’t stop him from harassing/stalking me once he got out. Family & friends told me he just “couldn’t get over me” and that I should take it as a compliment. To this day, they can’t understand why clingy men scare the shit out of me.

We need to foster a society in which men who view women as possessions or someTHING to control, instead of autonomous beings, are the freaks of nature and not the norm.

Someone commented on another post:

Oh but you should just give a guy a chance I thought? And jealousy just means he loves you? And why don’t we just speak up for ourselves?

“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” - Margaret Atwood.