Or not. People can heal from trauma. With counseling, she may not be afraid forever. This doesn’t diminish what she’s already suffered, just pointing out that assuming victims of crimes will always be damaged and afraid does survivors a disservice.

How can Free Radical call himself a nerd yet claim that he couldn’t find anything on the subject he asked about? Isolated nerd, my ass. If you claim to love The Root so much, then you already know the answer.

Ima just say it: FreeRadical is full of shit. I went to HS with plenty of his type, he already knew the answer was no but he was just hoping against hope that youd give him some sort of magical scenario in which it would be okay because youre his friend. Because a lot of white people think we value contact with them…

And in those countries, there are very complex processes for getting a gun. It can take several years upon applying to get a license to own one - unlike the US where getting one is easier than getting a driver’s license. Also, most european nations don’t allow ownership of handguns, just rifles (hunting rifles, not…

Take all the guns.

Okay, but is there going to be a cruise to Scary Island?

There were soooo many memes about that hat. This one was my favorite.

Conservatives: Support our vets !

Sure, I support people who are conscientious objectors too. But to dodge the the draft, then attack others who actually did serve, while risking people who are currently serving? Uh, no. No sympathy there.

I recently left a ten+ year marriage that has been miserable for years. I knew the end would be messy, messy, messy, and I thought that as long as the day-to-day stayed on the better side of the nightmare that the ending was sure to be, I was doing myself and my kids a huge favor.

THE POINT OF THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT HOW WHITE WOMEN ARE FAILING WOC AND YOUR FIRST THOUGHT IS TO TRY TO MAKE WHITE WOMEN NOT THE WORST.

Really? Who are Black women oppressing? Who are non-White Latina women oppressing?

nope. that’s not the point.

This has been going on for decades, basically since the late 1990s when the Tohono O’odham Nation, which predates the existence of Mexico and the US, was militarized by the Border Patrol. Border Patrol has sabotaged water supplies for the migrants, run over vegetable gardens in Tohono O’odham villages, banned…

My family has a horse ranch in Yuma, AZ. There are elevated emergency water tanks along a couple hundred mile stretch of the US : Mexico border. A favorite pastime of those motherfucking backward racist desert assholes is to shoot live munitions through the tanks to drain them of the water. Keep in mind, Yuma is one…

It’s with these sort of actions that the racism on the anti-immigration side of the border debate comes into such clear focus. This isn’t about some abstract ideas about how immigration should properly be conducted and regulated. This is about preferring that people of a certain sort die rather than set foot in the…

“health professionals to refuse to treat transgender patients and to perform abortions based on religious or moral grounds”

I don’t care that he’s fat. I’m fat. I care that he is an unstable, egotistical liar who can’t even face the reality of his own height and weight.

Wow love how quickly people read this frank discussion of how the economics of Hollywood disenfranchise women, and went; “Fuck her she said a mean thing about Faye Dunaway.”

No one is arguing that women shouldn’t feel empowered to leave situations they want to leave. The problem is the idea that we need to talk less about men’s behavior and more about women’s, as if the last three months have totally erased everything that came before.