That’s not their job to stop, silly, remember: women are responsible for ensuring they don’t get raped.

This is yet another entry in the ledger of people in this country murdered and sexually assaulted by people wielding guns. I despise and loathe the gun death cult in the U.S., and the twisting of the Second Amendment away from its original purpose to the Great Lie that it has anything to do with an individual right to…

Another term used is “intimate partner violence.” However, i find that somewhat inaccurate since she had already broken up with him and was no longer his partner.

As Sgt. Shawn McGuire of the St. Louis County Police Department put it, somewhat terrifyingly, “We have a loose, armed gunman out there who’s already shot one person.”

It’s easier for people to see the person who the violence is perpetrated against as a full victim when it’s violence committed randomly, by a stranger, ‘wrong place, wrong time’, etc.*  When it’s committed by the partner or former partner of a person, it’s easier for people to let the questions come about the victim…

It is case of domestic violence, just because she didn’t give him ring back. I listened to this for couple hours on a news last night, it was horrifying. Also Mercy hospital just had training what to do in case of shooting. NRA can fucking dissapear by telling doctors to stay in their lane.

I like “intimate partner violence” - it doesn’t have the “just a little lover’s quarrel!” connotations that domestic violence unfortunately has for some folks, is gender/orientation blind, and really captures the essential qualities (to me, at least).  Also does not require cohabitation, which (in my very limited…

I feel like this says more about the way society tells people to think about domestic violence as somehow less serious, or something understandable.

Domestic violence is too mundane to make for flashy enough reporting. Which says volumes.

This is a very important take. A domestic abuser killed his ex-partner and also those who tried to respond. This isn’t a cop-killer who also killed “two female staffers.” And to say otherwise is once again dismissing the harm IPV and toxic masculinity has on women and our entire society. 

There is a group I heard about in the Unerased podcast called the Mama Bears. They are Christian moms who support lgbt kids (usually bc their own have come out and they had a change of heart). They even walked a woman down the aisle after her parents disowned her. 

I sort of get the NCAA part of it. Fucking over student athletes IS their jam.

Hard to say. The Lake Canisius area (if that’s where the family actually lives) is pretty wealthy, but I’d always had the impression they were pretty liberal too.

well thats depressing

It’s actually still legal in New York State. The map below shows (in blue) the states (and some counties) in which it’s banned.

Right? They're not just homophobic, they're also petty af.

It’s been widely disproven and identified as abusive junk science.

Her parents also left her with a Discover bill full of charges for a recent family vacation

We do such a great job with our kids, eh? Her parents disown her. The school that’s supposed to be leading her through the last stage of becoming an adult tries to fuck her over. And the only organization that could theoretically protect her from the asshole Jesus freak fuckwads at the school sees what’s going on and…

jeez... her parents suck