BBC recently published a piece where they presented a scenario and then asked teenagers if it was rape or not. The answers showed how blurred the lines are for many people, and one in particular broke my heart. It really shows how prevalent rape is, and how many people justify it.

Now people will just say that you can’t trust any Muslims, since any one of them could be an ISIS agent.

It’s something, at least. Thanks!

Here’s a good place to ask this question. At a previous job, I left a direct deposit stub on my desk when I went home at night. I was written up the next day for leaving ‘confidential’ information out in the open. They actually had a company rule stating that you couldn’t share what you made with coworkers. Is that…

Came here to say the same thing. I’m glad I’m not paid to try to be happy and peppy when shit like this is happening.

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Any time he wants. This is a stupid question. You have trust, or you don’t have a relationship. In our case, I’m an introvert, and he’s an extrovert, so 3-4 nights a week he goes out while I get an evening alone with a book and the cats. Everyone wins.

I thought they did an amazing job. Some parts were cut out, but considering that the whole book was the boy’s train of thought, it would be hard to translate a lot to screen. It was the mother’s story, so it makes sense that it was all about her. It was just her story as seen through his eyes.

Oh, it is nothing as treacly as that. The viewer always knows exactly what’s going on, and nothing is glossed over. For example (spoilers), some days the boy’s mother is too depressed to get out of bed. To him, he doesn’t know it’s not normal, so he just goes about his business. He’s locked away into a wardrobe…

Did you read the book? The movie is done the same way, where everything is seen through the young boy’s eyes. She protected him from anything traumatic, so it’s just referenced as to shown. I think the subject matter was handled very respectfully and appropriately. It was sad and horrific, to be sure, but nothing was…

Or it could be that those movies just aren’t that good, and certainly aren’t original. I saw Room this weekend (Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%), after waiting weeks for it to hit my theatre, and it was sold out of the few showings that were available. The theatre obviously didn’t think it was going to do that well, but…

The fact that her father is still trying to profit off her with this is enough for me to want to boycott the film. I will always remember the footage in the documentary where she’s taken a couple months off to try to get healthy, get out of the public eye, and recharge, and he shows up with a film crew to film her for…

Up next: the book deal. Maybe to be turned into a movie.

Yeah, I’m hesitant to support a denouncement of social media made on social media and accompanied by a request for free money.

Is this the woman who has since posted a video asking for donations for her loving expenses because she doesn’t have any other source of income?

They do exist, trust me! I’m married to one. The ones that don’t act that way only do it because they’re enabled to.

This is why living together before marriage is such a great test. If my then-boyfriend had expected me to do all the work, or even a majority of it, we would not still be together. I can’t for the life of me understand why a woman who works as many hours as her partner would ever put up with this sort of scenario…

I want humans to have to answer for what we’ve done to animals like these.

Why are there so many teen parents in this utopia? Wouldn’t it be more ideal if birth control was treated more like any other preventative medicine?

If you think those are compliments, please do us all a favour and remove yourself from civilization.