Right? For such a misogynistic institution, a lot of the female heroes are exactly the opposite of what the Church says women are supposed to be like. Joan of Arc? Judith? Mary Magdalene?

It’s so interesting to read that many female saints entered religious life to avoid the constraints of domestic life given the Church’s role in keeping women out of public life.

Just had a horribly dark thought. A lot of the crews working on the cruises may not be able to AFFORD to leave, at least not until the ship gets back to their home country. So you’re stuck. Working on the boat. With an unplanned pregnancy you don’t want. Maybe desperately finding an emergency abortion in some country…

I tend to think it’s more an issue of ignorance of how frequently women need access to emergency contraception. (Male) leadership probably thinks that it would never be a concern, so why have it?

Setting aside the fact that this is an asshole move, from a purely business prospective, how does this make sense? You don’t even have to provide the stuff for free. Charge people for it. But if your crew is panicked about possible pregnancy, they can’t do a very good job.

And then there's the fact that your rapist is just there on the ship...until you dock. Yikes.

oh god i cant imagine what a nightmare it must be to be raped on the ship. collecting evidence for a rape kit is not easy. even with a very experienced SANE nurse it takes about 45 minutes. with a DR that has no idea what they are doing it can take 2 hours and the chances of them messing up the evidence collection is…

Reason # 4,302,098 not to go on Cruises.

Good for the parents. I don’t even know what I would say if my son did this. I can’t imagine.

You don’t have to go to Facebook for that type of comment. There’s one of those right here in this thread, in the black. You know, ‘cause they’re just asking questions.

This is such an awful story and I don’t want to look at more articles. But people are criticizing the father? Fuck.

Huzzah for the parents.

so on the nypd part: they are often slow to respond. plus, brownsville is a very poor, predominately black, and nowhere close to gentrifying neighborhood. in other words, the police DGAF.

two of the teenagers, aged 14 and 15, were turned in to the police by their parents

I remember seeing an episode of Adam-12 where Malloy and Reed were giving a community talk to a class of women at a local college. One of their lessons was that victims need to decide ahead of time to fight back or just basically surrender to the situation with the idea that while the crime is occurring you get help…

She is not “all right”. Also, fuck that deli owner.

I’ve seen people tearing the father to shreds for leaving when commanded (by gun). I know that it’s a tragically difficult scenario to imagine, and people’s instincts are to stay with their children no matter what, but who knows what would’ve happened if he stood his ground? At least this way he was able to leave and…

NBC also filmed themselves knocking on the door of the young woman’s family apartment

I don’t want to know what makes a 14 year old child want to do this to another human. Christ.

Of course it took the NYPD 2 days to issue any sort of community warning. Here we have the double whammy of 1) rape and 2) a low-income and mostly black neighborhood. Those aren’t things that the NYPD is trained to care about - let’s just let them get back to ticketing cyclists who roll through stop signs in Brooklyn…