Can you imagine how ridiculous these guards are going to sound answering questions about the security risk of false menstruation on the stand? Her lawyer is going to have a fucking field day, and I kind of want a transcript...

Like chaining prisoners to the bed during childbirth so they don't attempt an escape. Hello, Illinois!

I have heavy, irregular periods and have had far too many incidents of leakage/getting my period earlier than anticipated that I am now so paranoid that I will wear pads for up to a week before I actually get my period. It really doesn't make sense as to why she had to prove there was actual blood coming out of her,…

It happens because some staff at prisons think that even the visitors should be treated as non human pieces of garbage. I've never had something so terrible happen as this poor woman but I've been thoroughly disrespected and sneered at by guards while visiting my relative in a state prison. Fuck these officers and I…

What really really extra terrifies me about this story is that this was the treatment given to a visitor. If this kind of inhuman, misogynist fuckery was allowed with a visitor I can't even begin to fathom the shit that some of the female prisoners go through on a daily basis, above and beyond serving time.

And the security risk of carrying a pad if you are not actually menstruating is.....?

Which is exactly why her lawyer is making sure to claim that she wasn't given the option to leave. I would be surprised if they DON'T claim some sort of false imprisonment/assault combo.

What makes me even rage-ier is that this is happening at a privatized prison. The prison industrial complex is real and it's wrong. When you run a prison for profit, this is what we can expect. Our government can't run them right. How can we expect a corporation to do it better?

Preemptive shout-at to anyone who'd use that bullshit line: People in prison have families. It's punishment enough that their families can't be with their father/brother/husband, etc. — but to be straight-up afraid to visit them because of the guards? What the fuck?? And hell.. what's to stop them from doing this to a…

I ... I can't ... but ... fuck.

Honestly, if people kept asking me about my ex husband I would have been a million times less gracious than she has been.

It bothers me that a size 12 is considered plus but maybe that's my own insecurity.

You know that's not a headline written by an 11 year old girl right? That an editor wrote that for affect?

The entire thing is gold!

they make such sloppy passes

I really want to thank you for this post. I have an acquaintance that´s really into slash, I rarely see her outside cons or encounter her without mutual friends, but when she talks about fandom she is always like that and it always bothered me how she speaks about two (or more) masculine characters having sex as "so…

You shouldn't like a pairing because it's gay. You should like a pairing because you love the characters in it and the idea of their relationship. Het or gay shouldn't matter.

1.) It is okay to find gay men having sex hot.

When someone in a community other than yours says what you are saying or doing makes them uncomfortable, stop. Everybody messes up sometimes. I have messed up. But just listen up and stop.