When we started to enforce Prohibition, there were people who supported Prohibition that were shocked and surprised to learn that beer and wine were illegal in addition to hard liquor.

“Robert E. Lee” came in second.

*HAPPENIS*

Thing about that is that aliens, at least, are real.

I was trying to wrap my brain around the fact that a couple of people that I know and respect and consider to be basically smart, good people were actually considering voting for Trump. It evolved into an essay of sorts when I realized that the bottom line is that neither of them have ever had any reason to think or…

I know so many of these people. Not all are Republicans, but everything else is dead on. They’re really worked up about the gluten free items and the mommy drama. Also tennis.

Yes, of the few Republican women I know this is definitely the case. They grew up in more liberal states, but in rich, white, more conservative families. They attribute their comfortable rich white life to skill and attractiveness rather than luck and circumstance. Their main goal in life is reproducing with husbands…

THIS. What amazes me is the lack of imagination. Try to put yourselves in the shoes of someone who didn’t marry well, or at all, and has fought to compete with men, their salaries and privileges etc... it’s staggering when people think all others have to do is be exactly like them: white, well educated, (probably)…

The conservative messsage has always been: it doesn’t happen to good women. Ladies aren’t raped, ladies aren’t assaulted, ladies are’t victims of domestic abuse, ladies aren’t abused at all, and ladies never admit to being victims of anything.

Wow; shameless Jesus huckster and celebrity seeking Christofascist shyster surround ignorant Born Again stooge to revel in their joint exploitation of said cretin by means of the age old champion of injustice, the Bible.

What does Dre’s race have to do with anything? Did he or did he not beat the fuck out of a female reporter for doing her job?

lol.

Good for you, yes, you are better than that. I wish you get justice some day. I wish you only good things from now on and that your healing is doing well.

Holy shit. I don’t have an adequate vocabulary to describe how fuck up that is...

I am currently reading Jon Krakauer’s Missoula, his excellent investigation into a series of rapes in this college town in Montana, and an essential primer about the state of rape in America. And what you say is exactly why experts claim that 80% of rapes go unreported. The intense physical trauma, the fact that most…

Totally agree. What if you’d have a reaction to the drug? What if you’d been using (legal) prescription meds he didn’t know about? What if you’d aspirated during the night and couldn’t breathe? It’s awful enough that he victimized you, but he could’ve killed you too. I hope this guy gets what’s coming to him, but I…

I am so sorry that happened to you. No one should have to go through something like that. I hope things are much better for you now.

I have at least two girlfriends who made the same decision you did in somewhat similar circumstances, and both of them are convinced they made the right decision, even though they aren’t thrilled about it. And I don’t blame them — the shit women go through when they report can be even more damaging than the actual…

That’s awful. I just want to reach into my computer and give you a hug. :(

God I’m so sorry. I’m an attorney and pretty savvy too, but I don’t think I’d be brave enough to go through with the report. To be victimized all over again, or at the very least having to relive the trauma over and over...