Um, the labia is not the point of FGM, the clitoris is.

I think men would have a lot more success on dating sites if they stopped being fucking creepy on them. You know why I stopped online dating? Because 90% of the messages I got from men either began with A) a derogatory comment about other women (“Boy, it’s nice to see a girl who reads!”) B) a comment about my…

You are misreading the quote. What that quote means is that, for women, being killed is an actual outcome they have to worry about when they break up with a man/reject a man’s advances, because it is just that common. Men do not have to worry about this, because it is very very rare for a man to be murdered by a woman…

Tech had this guy for what, 6 months? Whatever fucked him up isn’t on them. They are quite right to protect the rest of their student body from a child murderer.

There’s actually pretty good reasons to do this. Felonies take a long time to prosecute. Suspension means he is taken out of his classes without failing them (which is a totally reasonable protection for people who may be innocent). It also deactivates his ID and stops him from gaining access to campus buildings, also…

That’s not fair. The scarcity of nurses in school districts (especially in Michigan, which has a fucked up education system) has nothing to do with a lack of applicants. School districts literally only have the budget for the one nurse required by federal law. My relatively well-off, white-majority school district cut…

I’m also from Michigan. We used to have a nurse at every school, and over the course of my time there it went down to one per level...then one for the whole district. It was pretty weird (we also went down to one librarian). And we were in a “well-off” district.

First of all, an IQ of 70 is borderline as far as mental ability goes. It’s perfectly likely that—especially in rural places—she would’ve just been the “slow girl”. Secondly, I was speaking more generally about how communities used to have support systems in the absence of state support systems that shored up…

You’d think there would already be a system like that. At my university, there was a program where developmentally disabled students (probably around Sara’s level, who were attending school for job training) lived with non-disabled students. The non-disabled students provided some basic help in navigating the dining…

I think part of it is that even 50 years ago, most communities were pretty small and you got extensive help from your existing social structure. We don’t have that anymore, which is good in some ways but definitely a detriment to people like Sara. And since the system isn’t really set up for that kind of community…

That’s true. But there has to be some sort of solution here. If she truly is unfit to parent (which is still in question to me—it doesn’t sound like she got any help learning how to parent or time to adjust before her child was taken) what about a co-living situation? Or proving she can hire a nanny? IDK, they didn’t…

Who gives a shit? Honestly. She has a totally average and healthy body. Don’t be a dick to a teenage girl.

This doesn’t even make any sense. The “she’s already been aborted” line assumes that there’s only ONE woman who could have possibly been president. Yet how many white men candidates do we slog through every election?

Ah, thanks for the title! I do think I remember hearing it was a true story.

Yeah. If the Obamas were Republicans, people would be all over how great it was that she chose to prioritize her children over attending endless political functions.

Well, I am talking about a greater spectrum of violence than just murder (including rape, domestic violence, stalking, and harassment). Sure, it is probably true that offenders commit many crimes over their lifetimes. But again, literally every straight woman I know has a story of being harassed, stalked, or assaulted…

Actually, most studies show that rates of crime remain fairly stable among different racial populations, especially when you compare between people of similar income levels. People of color tend to be incarcerated at higher rates than white people, but this probably has more to do with higher policing in minority…

Except we know that there is an extremely high rate of sex-based violence for women. 1 in 4 women experiences sexual assault and 2 out of 3 female homicide victims were killed by a partner or family member. There is also great social pressure on women to accept and ignore threatening behavior from partners, and great…

Sure. But it’s still the old “If 1 in every 100 M&Ms were poisoned, would you eat M&Ms?” conundrum. Every woman I know has a story about a boyfriend or date who either tried to stalk them or got creepy/violent at the end of the relationship.

Heck, even today black women tend to be encouraged to get hysterectomies more often than white women are for the same medical issue.