This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

Hey. That sounds familiar:

Victim blaming runs deep. The example raised in this article is hardly the only one.

How can you subject yourself to that?

I prefer not to think about it.

A woman threatened in this manner is likely facing a Sophie’s Choice kind of situation. Keep quiet and don’t make waves, or it becomes that much less likely you and your family will ever be together again.

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Routinely, any male who’s raped is inexplicably regarded as fully blameworthy if their apparent failure to resist falls short of removing themselves from the situation via employing magic mental abilities to decapitate themselves.

While meeting Putin, he didn’t dare even to speak about the sanctions.

‘Treason’ Is Top Searched Word After Trump-Putin Press Conference

Is the GOP troubled?

This appears to be the one instance in which Republicans, too, must behave with civility and decorum.

Maggie Thatcher, on Reagan:

Even in the international press (the UK Guardian) I’ve seen stories about how Oregon cannabis entrepreneurs are losing almost everything. Mostly because they overproduced. Prices are incredibly low.

Maybe she was impolite to smell her grandson. I mean she’d probably have to get up close.

Nah I’m not gonna smash things. Even if I feel like it. I’d just wind up hurting myself.

could just see her mind freeze up as she tried to reconcile the fact that the Golden Rule does not, in fact, justify her spitting bile under any circumstances, with the “fact”, in her own mind at least, that she was the best Christian she knew. It was downright jarring to see a mind…

I keep looking at the top photo and reminding myself, “No, Putin probably doesn’t bear a deathly pallor. Oh he’s a definitely white kinda guy, but of the melanin-only kind.

Both leaders have repellent qualities, difficult to enumerate. Relating to power, dominance, lack of self-reflection, and greed: among others.

I have dealt with narcissists in my life