I love the phrase “secret ceremony”. I know it just means that they kept it private, but it makes me think of a shadowy rite involving candles, black robes, ominous chanting, and a surprising amount of blood.

I know that feeling. My mom is 9 years older than my dad and they had me late in their lives. My dad was 30 and my mom 39 when I came along.

I hope he changes his last name to Kloss. I would! OR they could make a fun new name Klutch? Klotch? Kloner? All better than his last name!

I think part of it is also wanting to suck up to the powerful (or those perceived as powerful). And also the whole being blind to their own privilege deal. I’ve been trying to figure it out for decades, and this is the best I got..

It’s because they want the junkies to die. To teach them a lesson. There’s no other reason to be against it. 

And I don’t want my grandkids growing up in a theocratic totalitarian corporate fascist dystopian industrial wasteland police state. So... where do we go from here?

Who’s paying for your dad’s healthcare, Meg?

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER.

Frankly, I’d be fine if they just wrote, “Get the fuck out of here.”

This is a BRILLIANT argument and I’d like to use it, because I’ve needed something to argue that point with for a while now.  My assault was like Emily Doe’s - it wasn’t PIV penetration, it was oral and digital penetration.  I’ve actually had people tell me that it “isn’t the same as real rape” and “at least it wasn’t…

Back when this happened I ended up in ONE OF THE MOST AWKWARD AND GROSS CONVERSATIONS EVER with someone who was cautiously taking the stance that fingering “isn’t as bad as real rape”, by which of course they meant penis-in-vagina/anus. We slowly parsed this out, and I eventually got them to acknowledge that if a…

It’s because they aren’t thinking about the victim, they’re thinking about the perpetrator. 

So he carried her behind a dumpster for dry humping? Christ, these people are shameless. Turner also allegedly sent pics of her breasts to some of his friends; so much for the keeping clothes on part.

I bet if we shoved a finger into either of these douchebags against their will, they would consider it rape. 

I went to law school, and I’ve heard some absolutely absurd arguments in my time, but holy crap on a cracker, this takes the cake.

No, Brock and/or Brock’s Lawyer. It’s been established that digital penetration occurred, and with enough force the victim got penetrative injuries and pine needles and “debris” ended up inside her. That’s rape. I’m sorry (hahaha not really) if you feel that fingering shouldn’t really count as real rape and your…

She has doctors for that. It’s not natural. It’s not apples to apples. She can afford the work that doesn’t look like work.  

(a) I’m black. (b) Please show me where I lay blame, rather than pass on information that many people obviously do not have? (c) I am also pushing back on THE BOAT OWNERS’S CLAIM that the storm was not forecast (because some of us read more than one outlet). (d) Are the people who are suggesting that life jackets are…

Better to be a strong swimmer than a non-swimmer in any event.

The only fools were the captain and the boating company who still allowed business to happen that day. It’s unfair to assume that customers of any kind of tourism or activity like this, know anything about boating. Cause most times they don’t. They put all their trust in the captain to know what’s right.