Yes, my heart breaks for the PTSD suffered by the rapist who got caught, convicted, and was punished with a slap on the wrist.

Feel free to dismiss the rape apologist if you’d like!

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

Sob. Now Brock will never eat steak again!

As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…

as a side note, yes, i do believe that there is some hypersensitivity over certain things, but that’s beside the point.

The debate over safe spaces, too, has become cartoonized, a shorthand way to complain about privileged millennials

I’m 31 now, and I remember having a conversation with a college friend when we were both 25. She was like, “do you remember being a kid and thinking that 25 was SO OLD, and that you would DEFINITELY have all your shit together by then? Like, 100% solid career track, white picket fence house, dog, husband, etc.”

Well a common sexist stereotype of woman in power is that they’re shrill.

because they are insinuating that her laugh is too loud, too aggressive, too much and she should be relegated to tiny giggles behind her hand like a good, docile woman would. I mean, can you believe her audacity to actually laugh her real laugh??

Not only can we look forward to him destroying Pence, he’ll do it in English AND Spanish.

Yes! That is standard and was something that was a liability with both Elizabeth Warren (whose seat is not up) and Sherrod Brown (whose seat is not up) because both Ohio and Massachusetts have Republican governors and we would have lost a senate seat. When Hillary wins in November we keep the seat because McAullife…

So can we look forward to a repeat of Biden destroying Palin with this dude vs. Pence? Please?

From age 16 to 18 I was having a lot of medical problems. My mom couldn’t take any more time off work, so I would often go to appointments by myself. My pediatrician was fine with this, but a few times when I needed outpatient x-rays, they would not accept my consent as a 17 and 10/12s year old, and they would have to…

Alaska has also had permissive weed laws. And they pay you to live there. Reproduction protection, weed, and free money for doing nothing. No wonder Alaska is the siren call for libertarians.

There’s a lot of weirdness with the general citizenry and legislature in Alaska, but the Alaska Supreme Court has historically been fantastic and much better than most other states’ high courts.

I agree. And as I’ve mentioned down thread, specifically pertinent to Alaska, which has some of the highest child sexual abuse in the nation, it’s important that teens aren’t forced to involve their parents in their choice to get an abortion if they don’t want to.

AMERICAN DAUGHTERS:

“even ALASKA gets it?!”

What great news! These kind of laws are absolute bullshit. Adolescents being empowered to make their own informed decisions about their reproductive health can only be a good thing.