As someone (male) who was molested from the age of ~10 to ~13, thank you for writing this. It’s next to impossible for children to know that what’s happening isn’t right, especially when it comes from an authority figure, and I’m very glad you didn’t shrug it off.

To the author: Sharing this story will save children from abusive situations and will stop abusers. I am so sorry for the pain you’ve experienced, thank you for pushing through that to help others. 

Thanks for sharing this, I’m sure most of us would have no idea what to do if this happened to us or a family member.

The IUD made my periods go away for 2 years and then they came back normal and the eventually came back 2 times a month. so now I do the IUD and I take the pill to get the periods to go away. My doctor thinks this is overkill. I don’t care. Overkill those damn periods. 

I know with some folks “childless” is something that happened and they would rather have a child. But for those who have selected childlessness I have always assumed they had way better self-awareness than most. I think a lot of people (and I’m including myself in this) have kids because it’s just a thing you do. You…

I will be 50 in three days!

But people do have the legal right to their image. General consent and even model releases are required if you are photographing an individual as a published primary subject when the purpose is not for news or current events. (General consent is good for personal photos shared publicly, but you need a model release…

There’s a difference between a snap and taking several in sequence & ”reporting” on you when you are just going about your business. Not to mention sharing it on some platform where it will get thousands if not millions of shares sometimes even ending up on international news...all this cause some dick has decided…

You’re failing to grasp the distinction between legally allowable and ethically defensible.

This is the exact wrong take.

To proactively respond to anyone who says “I don’t care if my picture gets out there” please post a clear full body pic in this thread along with your current city/state.

People blaming her/her family for not finding an alternative or filing the correct paperwork:

Poverty isn’t just monetary. It is a poverty of resources, poverty of information, and poverty of advocacy. 

According to the article, it looks like the family says that they had made an effort to register her medical issues with the electric company, but the electric company said they had no record of it.

Sure we can! And we won’t stop until everyone knows for an absolute and undoubtable fact that all of history was exactly as woke as we are today!

I dislike this current trend of hating on historical writers because they wrote with the biases and prejudices of the time.

Personally, I think it is VERY important that kids see racism, sexism etc in action so they can understand what it looks like and why it’s wrong. I wouldn’t let a kid read these books totally unsupervised, but I wouldn’t rule them out entirely. I got a lot of my love of the outdoors and desire to do things like cook,…

Are you literally asking for a safe space from a blog post

If you get arrested, you still have the right to visit with your children (unless they refuse) and also, small detail, your children don’t get thrown into cages in a prison camp.

Those are all good questions.

Our elected officials were supposed to be crafting some reasonable regulations, but they’re too busy playing partisan circle-jerk and chasing the votes of people we should be ignoring.

In the meantime, what the United States is doing right now is wrong. Even if it is the law (and that is…

I’m sharing my experience for the benefit of those of you out there that are waiting for marriage because of religious beliefs or culture. I’m a 37 yr old female, and had sex for the first time about 4 months ago: