Absolutely. I was very young when I finally told my mother about the serious sexual assault I experienced by someone close to the family. She was decisive and relentless—through reporting to the police, all the interviews and the court hearings and therapy, through my crippling fear and other people’s judgement. I…

How do you feel about the cross?  Or the flag?

Orrrr.... hear me out, if a woman prefers to wear it then they should go ahead and do so.

To the author: Sharing this story will save children from abusive situations and will stop abusers. I am so sorry for the pain you’ve experienced, thank you for pushing through that to help others. 

For what it’s worth - I think both my parents would give anything to go back in time and report the sexual abuse I suffered. I love my parents, but I will never forgive them.

Mental health professional here. Thank you for your courage in sharing your story and being brave enough to make an impossibly difficult decision. May your family find healing from this difficult situation. 

I’ve worked in law enforcement for 20 years. Sadly, many parents aren’t like you.  For what it is worth, great job. You took action immediately. This isn’t your fault, or hers.  I’m so sorry. 

Nope. She sounds American just using some rote responses that sound nice and formal when meeting a whole mess of new people. Apparently she was trained by some speech dude over there to speak formally on occasions like this. She’s picked up some phrasing but she isn’t speaking with a remotely British accent in my…

i worked for a british company for a number of years - in addition to it rubbing off, you can only take so many raised eyebrows about how you pronounce things like brusque without going with the flow for your sanity’s sake. 

No you're not. She sounded perfectly normal. People are just grasping for reasons to shit on her.

Yeach after living in Denmark with my husband who is fluent but not native in English, I have picked up some strange speech habits. This is just what happens when you live in a different culture. It changes you. Shouldn’t be surprising and it isn't an affectation.

I am only exposed to Brits 40 hours a week and it is incredibly hard to resist some of it rubbing off, *especially* the “DID you?”/“IS it?”/“IS she?”/“IS he?” chirpy auto-response. I can only imagine what it’s like for MM being aroumd them, and only them, 24/7. Give the girl a break!

Chrissy is such a delight and that photo is precious. 

Hearing her say “my 4th of July is ruined” with that defeated sounding voice was difficult. She left because of the embarrassment, while that white woman gets to stand there proudly enjoying the fact that the scintilla of power that she received from her arbitrary, made up position could be used yet again, to ruin…

Swim with a shirt on ?  Since when can you not do that?  Where the fuck are you from?

He actually didn’t have his socks on in the pool. He was wearing them at the pool. 

Hmm. I wonder how the grays will make excuses for this one? Perhaps he was concealing razor sharp toenails.

She wasn’t yelling.  And, confronting these assholes whenever and wherever you have the chance is good.

Another HERO! Don’t let these fucks have one peaceful moment!

Or when someone walks into their office and they proceed to have a whole conversation with them without putting the call on mute.