I’m sure they’ll find a contrary Native/First Nations person ready to say the name doesn’t bother him/her to serve as justification. Probably Bradford after another concussion.

...Well I’m never leaving my house again.

YES. The only way to stop rape is to stop people from raping.

“I’m a nice guy YOU FUCKING BITCH WHY DON’T YOU TRUST ME AUTOMATICALLY seriously such a nice guy CUNT”

My roommate and her two friends were slipped something by the bartender at the bar they went to recently. The only person who touched their beers was the bartender, and yet they were all disgustingly sick in the morning and couldn’t remember the rest of the night after the first beer. Luckily they were with another…

I called the cops because of a stranger in the basement of a building I managed and they still hadn’t shown up over an hour later when I had to leave for work. And the station was literally seven blocks away.

I wish there were some way to prevent men doing this,

Nice! This happened to me when I was 12, in line for an outdoor concert with my parents, who saw what was happening and just ignored it and, when I confronted them afterwards, said “well, what were we supposed to do?”. Because being rude to a stranger is unthinkable, even when he’s creeping on your 12 year old. Bloody…

It sounds like they didn’t want to alert the guy until the cops arrived. Which suggests the cops were called immediately. My big question is, why did it take SMPD 40+ minutes to arrive? I live nearby and have seen up to 20!!!! cop cars at the scene of an accident before the fire dept had arrived. I’ve seen 7-8 cars on…

Not only is it what I would want to do, I worry that my rage would blind me so much that it wouldn’t occur to me that doing something like that would likely prevent any real consequences from befalling the guy.

I’m glad I’m not the only one tearing up- and I’m not even slightly ashamed. There’s something so wonderful and moving about knowing that there is always an army of women of all different shapes, sizes, colors, backgrounds, and walks of life who at any given moment are thinking, “We got you. We’re all here. You’re not…

Yeah, I’m just saying i don’t think i’d be able to control myself, not that there’s a right or wrong way to respond to a situation like this.

I’m with the author - I would have wanted to tell the guy he’d been seen, watch him deny it, then say okay, prove it’s not true, drink it all yourself right now. And yes I realize that’s not the right way to handle it, it’s just what I would have WANTED to do.

I’m not crying. Nope.

I love when women watch out for other women

“Remember, Summer Page is part Native and the Page family regularly attended powwows even before she came to live in their home.”

Aww, ICWA. This is very similar to a case I had when I was a CPS caseworker. I told the foster parents the first time I met them (child had already been placed) that the child would not be eligible for adoption because that was the very first question out of their mouths. Literally, I shook their hands to introduce…

This just in: rich white people screw over Native Amer....what? oh, we did this story in 1830? Hmmm.

If they clearly want to have the child forever, why are they fostering, not adopting? Are they not qualified to adopt children, are they frustrated by the wait lists, or are they in it for the money? Either way, if CPS didn’t think the child should be permanently removed from her biological family, then I'm sure they…

Ugh, the comment about powwows really makes my skin crawl. It really looks like they’re adopting A NATIVE CHILD! LOOK! HOW EXOTIC AND/OR CHRISTIAN! I watch Korean thrillers. That totes means I get dibs on a Korean baby, right?