It’s not just countries like Pakistan and Iran it’s also right here in Europe. In several neighbourhoods in France for instance, girls and women of Arab descent (not going to call them Muslim because some of them are not religious) who don’t wear a headscarf/hijab get catcalled or shamed or harassed by their…

It sounds like we’ve had different experiences regarding this.

I’m not convinced that there is much value to reporting abuse without, at least, the option to name names.

Basically this.

except that if she wanted to apologize she should have contacted Dylan directly, not this open letter business. [ok I just hate open letters]

I get that Rose McGowan has a unique place in this horrifying story and I’m reluctant to judge her because of it, but I feel like she’s attacking EVERYONE for not being pure enough.

Its almost like people who live there didn’t get the memo about regular natural disasters. It’s a place that should be uninhabitable for anything other than a small population.

Ok, I will be the guy to defend HOAs. They are only as good as the people you elect to run them. Also before you buy you can read the rules and decide if they are crazy or not.

I botched this one, no question about it, and if I offended people I apologize. I clumsily attempted to get to a point that I obviously missed.

Sigh. Thanks for assuming I’m some white idiot that doesn’t get it. I guess what I was trying to express (and I obviously did a bad job)is that if we stay in this loop where anything that can be construed as racist is assumed to be racist, we can never get to the point where people just see a kid in a shirt.

There’s no question that it’s been used as a racist term, I’m not arguing that by any means. My point I guess is that are we always going to try to find racist meaning in every stupid T-shirt campaign? We’re stuck in a loop. We want everyone to be treated equally, however we jump at the chance to brand things racist.…

Wow, glad to see you feed your high horse well. Anything for a star, eh?

Counterpoint, if that’s a blonde white girl wearing the sweatshirt, there’s no issue, so why is it an issue when a little black boy wears it? Maybe I’m naive, but isn’t the best way to move past racism to stop assuming that anything that COULD be racist IS racist? It’s a freaking kids shirt based on animals/zoo…

“According to Alabama’s unofficial election night results, Roy Moore carried Etowah County, where she lives, by 58%.”

It is interesting to see everyone mention how they can’t stand Gilbert. Which is totally fine, but just seems completely unnecessary to bring up in this context.

I don’t understand why she is berated for her compassion. Why do we assume the wives always know what their husbands are up to? Or that they aren’t suffering the same abuse at home? Are we all so heroic that we can’t imagine people who weren’t brave enough to speak up? Are we all so aware that we have never been…

Someone is approached while at their child’s soccer game by a stranger who doesn’t identify themselves and then asked why another department in their company is doing something shitty. They get pissed for being attacked while not at work for something they have nothing to do with, respond shittily in this one-on-one…

My job takes me all over the world and I have easily been to over 40 countries. While the United States (I assume you are from there) has its share of problems, it is not by any means close to being horrible place to live.

Meh. Consider her history of early abuse in the article. I’m a someone who was raped in kindergarten and later experienced a series of brutal attacks, like an attempted gang rape at a church camp when I was 11. At a very early age, it just becomes a FACT that you are unsafe and that if anything happens, the people…

I have to be honest, and I’m sure I’ll receive flack for it, but I get what she’s saying. Yes, women should be able to walk into a business meeting (regardless of the unusual setting that it’s taking place in) and be safe.