This breaks my heart on a personal level. I was raped and I didn't know about the teacher thing. I did tell my teachers and they did nothing as well. I was thrown around as a liar. Never believed. Never even got a counselor (I was supposed to get that when I called the cops?)... just reminds me how bad the system shit…

I think the beauty of His Dark Materials is that you get hooked by the more lighthearted, fun, adventuring-young-girl beginning... and then all of a sudden you realize you're deeply involved in this war between God & Science, Childhood & Adulthood, between the idea of staying who you are and that of becoming who you…

I'm not entirely sure, but I'd say part of the issue with rape is the notion that someone else is using your body without your consent for their own pleasure, knowing that they are hurting you. Basically, I can understand that anger could cause someone to hit someone but I can't understand the sort of emotions that…

Ok so would you prefer to be beaten up, or for your attackers to shove their penises up your asshole? Why? Why is the thrusting of the penis into your asshole so much worse than any other form of physical violence?

Oh, it happens. "What are you?" "You can't be just black black. You must be mixed." "You're a mulatto, right?" These are questions I've gotten and they're not even the worst. People can be grossly invasive.

Can I join your boat of crazy religious mom survivors? Mine lives with us because my dad finally had enough and ditched her ass, so my pain continues into my middle years. Things I've had to explain to my kids - you will not be punished by a mythical deity if you don't pray before every meal, witches have no plans on…

Oh no, I fully agree with you. This guy clearly has a persecution complex, and it wouldn't surprise me at all.

This reply deserves to be framed or something. This x 1000. My bestie worked in Child Protective Services where I'm from. Child on child and adult on child sex abuse is rampant. At all income levels. I had no idea until she told me the numbers. Hundreds of cases in ONE county alone, and it's a suburb of a mid sized…

Yes if she was also a victim of abuse that would explain her actions, but not excuse them. My ex-husband was sexually abused by his stepfather and by an older cousin who his step-father had also abused. The fact that his cousin was also an abuse victim explained why he did it; it did not make it ok that he did. It did…

As an aside, to get through these comments with my sanity intact I've decided that everyone accusing Sinead of trying to piggyback on Miley for attention must be Miley's age. You can't know even two things about Sinead O'Connor and believe that.

I have made comments about this and they have all been deleted. I'm surprised this one hasn't been.

Have you guys ever heard of supertasters? It sounds like you might be one. I have a picky eater friend who gave up smoking but found she couldn't handle the tastes of many foods when her sense of taste fully came back!

Nope I'm actually an adult who was regularly beaten if I didn't clean my plate fast enough and told that if I threw up because something tasted that bad/the texture was that revolting to me that I'd be forced to eat my own vomit. So once I became an adult who could no longer be literally physically forced to eat food…

I want a date set up for him and then when he answers the door it's Ving Rhames, and he says "I heard you thought i look like a monkey or some such bullshit."

I'm just going to pretend that Cassidy will read these comments somehow and know that there are a bunch of strong, loud feminists over here cheering her on. And pray she doesn't look a the greys. Even though I'm grey too. But...yeah

Oh man, I remember one time (of the few) that I smoked with my brother and I just sat there swaying (I guess) and said "it feels so cool to move". He still picks on me for it and its been like 20 years.

I crocheted it for her!

Well, no, "sexual orientation" is a socially construction with specific regional and historical implications, not a timeless, inborn thing in your brain. That's some pretty basic queer theory, and since queer theory and not psychology is the academic field dedicated to studying just this very issue, you should…