He may have needed proof—legal proof, and it just wasn’t there. A prolonged fight would have cost time and resources he may not have had. With shared custody he may have hoped to be able to keep his son safe.

are you telling me that when my loved ones told me “all that matters is your personality” they were lying to me

That’s terribly sad and says a lot about the system if one has to get a felony first.

When I was a prosecutor, I found that frequently, the best way to get mental health care for a person was to charge them with a felony. At that point they can start getting evaluated, get any medications they might need and maybe get some kind of ongoing treatment. I hope this poor woman can be restored to health.…

I am clearly a lady Jesus because I find myself capable of having sympathy for lots of people simultaneously.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING SHIT

My friend’s fiancé was once like ‘Hohoho, if you rape a prostitute, is it rape or shoplifting, hohoho’ and I practically shouted ‘It’s rape, sex with someone who does not or cannot consent is rape, please stop talking immediately’.

Population control seems to be a solution eternally in search of a problem, and its proponents are almost always willing to ally themselves with really nasty people.

US birthrate is actually around the minimum to sustain it’s population and trends seem to say it might drop small enough to be troublesome (like Japan’s is). So it’s unlikely we would have those sanctions in the US in the near future.

Also the ridiculous myth that sex is supposed to hurt and make you bleed the first time you do it.

Our birth rate is just fine. In fact, without immigration we would be shrinking at a potentially unsustainable rate. (Shrinking the population too quickly can cause some serious problems with taking care of the elderly.)

Tim, ffs, you also know that it’s men who put women in the hospital, men who kill women. Please don’t try to confuse or blur the situation by pretending that a 140-lb woman who pushes her 220-lb husband is in the same danger as a 120-lb woman whose 180-lb husband is punching her in the face. Just don’t start with me.

The sale of soluble cyanide crystals is banned in the United States. Please explain what is frivolous about suing Amazon or the university which took no steps to address her sexual assault.

Fuck those bullshit arguments

Charming. Someone posted this video of them yesterday, I’ve watched it roughly a million times since.

Yes, let’s hear how these people are “entitled” to act this way because of “whatever”.

Is there a term for ironic application of Pinkham’s law?

I’m not defending these kids, but if their order got messed up and they’d been having a bad day, I can see how they’d be mad. Like, maybe their fries were too crispy and one of them is allergic to crunchy? I don’t think everyone needs to be jumping down their throats just because they made a mistake once. I once…

To all the people saying that various BCO stories are too out of control to have actually happened, I give you this.

I seem to only be able to communicate in gif/jpeg form today.

I have roughly the same interest in becoming a parent as mongooses have in hanging out with snakes but holy crap this guy.