I am all for a law that makes it:

It fits my experience pretty well. Mine didn’t go on for years, but I remember stepping on the scale every single morning and it’s numbers dictating what I would eat. If it was the same or higher than the day before, I’d eat 900 calories or less that day. If I lost a pound, I’d allow myself 1000 - 1200. It was like a…

Don’t tell me Once Upon a Time gets bad!! I just finished binge watching it on Netflix and I need more.

All kinds of this!!

I see this all the time from people in my own life. Oh yeah, men and women are equal. BTW, don’t cut you’re hair short because real women have long hair. And don’t join a Crossfit gym because you’ll get all bulky which is yucky.

I can’t star this enough.

Then the issue isn’t gender, it’s how society treats the crime. I get the rape can be a hard crime to prove in a court of law, but that’s no reason to treat people who say they have been raped like crap.

I got as far as “I know because a woman said it and that’s all I need!” and couldn’t read the rest of that Facebook comment. I continue to be amazed how rape and sexual assault seem to be the only crimes where no one believes the victim until they prove it somehow. I really don’t get it. I mean, without proof it…

I completely agree. But I don’t know that there is a good way to tell the difference between someone who honestly thinks the other person is just playing around and someone who knows the other person isn’t into the sex but it taking advantage of the situation anyway. At least if people are educated about consent, it’s…

I think that young men and boys may not be accurately taught about what is and isn’t rape. I mean, sure it may be obvious as adults, but do the teenagers really know? I had a male friend in high school who proclaimed one day that he was “never having sex with a virgin again” because “all they do is scream and bleed…

Being totally honest here, I’ve often thought the law is lacking in terms of what happens when both parties are too drunk to consent. It seems to me that if a person is the aggressor or instigator of a crime, such as assault, whether or not they are drunk should not matter. They get charged with a crime. For example,…

Very interesting! Thank you for taking the time to explain.

Are there any other crimes a person can commit while drunk that they won’t/can’t be prosecuted for because their drunken state meant there was no way to prove they intended to commit a crime?

Yeah, it was bad all around and I feel like I should have known. No one teaches you the difference between obsession and love, though. I always say that I don’t regret the relationship because I learned things about myself and about love that I would have learned no other way.

I don’t get it either. I understand the argument that some people who don’t deserve to have their guns taken away might get them taken away if we had a policy like benjaminallover described. But we accept that some people may be wrongly put in jail, have their right to vote taken away or even put to death every day.…

I have no credentials to support this opinion, but in high school I was in what I sometimes call a “borderline abusive relationship.” In hindsight, there were definitely red flags. He fell in love with me within days, which made me very uncomfortable. I was 16 and had no idea what was going on, but the word he was…

I do like this idea. I was just sitting here thinking that, if he was never charged with anything, what could the law do. Your idea makes sense.

I just wish we could do something with existing laws, so that people who feared their spouses could make charges against them without fearing their spouse will be able to…

I always wonder if people in abusive situations would be more comfortable filing a protective order or some other kind of complaint if they were sure they law could protect them. IF she had filed a protective order, would he still have been able to legally purchase gun? (asking because I honestly don’t know.)

I really do hate how the day you get engaged and the day you get married are supposed to be the best days of your life. I’ve always said that I’m not excited to get married (don’t really feel comfortable being the center of attention like that), but I am excited to be married. The days after that will be the best. I…

I feel the same way. Reminds me of a wedding I went to where someone proposed during the wedding reception. I mean, that’s great and wonderful, but it’s really not your day.

I usually go with anti-choice for the same reason. I do know a few people who fit the pro-life definition - very few. One couple I know encountered a woman through a church reach out program who was going to get an abortion, and they convinced her not to. And by convinced I mean they offered to pay for all her medical…