Last year, a fun bonus part of my job was answering angry phone calls when our store no longer bought the Ivanka Trump line. NO, it did not mean we took all of its merch and threw it away. YES, we still had items available in stock. WE JUST WEREN’T GONNA HAVE HER NEW PRODUCT NEXT SEASON.

The royal family isn’t “widely seen as “obselete”

This will now be known as the Frances Bean Cobain rule.

I worked as a nurse in a locked psych facility. One of my NAC’s lost a baby this way. She was not prosecuted because I don’t live in a shit state, apparently. She was just gutted over it, because she had no education in her life that had ever led her to be able to understand how the biology of all this works. She…

There’s an easy way to avoid seeing people on TV that you don’t want to see.

Lady and her cigarette are both on fire.

The stone is too big for that band. It needs a filigree extension holding it from both sides to set off the quality of the gem.

A big, important note here from an Ontarian lurking here: something that social conservatives have decried more often than what’s listed above, in my personal experience, was the focus on consent. It taught even young kids that touching people if they say no (obviously not discussing it in terms of sex the younger…

in the words of the 2001 head doctor of Stony Brook’s CPEP ward: “Who’re they gonna believe, some stupid little shit with a fucked up head or the kindly old doctor? I’ve been doing this for YEARS.” nobody ever believes the child. ever.

“This sort of behavior often stems from childhood sexual trauma of its own”

Wow. This whole article is about listening to children and breaking the abuse cycle. Your comment is a perfect example of the OPPOSITE of that.

As I said, this was right after the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping/murder in Kansas City and was a huge, huge deal in the Midwest in 1953. Bobby had been described everywhere as a “very trusting, obliging little boy” and, when a woman appeared at his school, identified herself as “an aunt from out of town,” told the…

I don’t think you understand how you’re coming off, but it reads as if you’re expressing equal empathy for child rapists and the children who’re raped. JSYK.

You’re a forty-one-year-old who thinks that “monster” is too strong a term for a child abuser, but it’s perfectly fine to tell a child abuse victim that they’re fated to become one.

“Oh my god...what would the congregation say about ME if they found out??? You must never say another word about this!!”

I know that foundation helped me to cope and to eventually forgive for my own well-being

Also, in a case like the letter where the kid mentions the abuse while laughing because they don’t get the sexual aspect of butt licking and just think it’s funny (because the act of “licking a butt,” in a vacuum, IS gross and funny), it’s just that much easier to brush it off as a funny misunderstanding and silently…

Fuck you six ways to Sunday. YOU KNOW WHO ABUSE VICTIMS HURT? THEMSELVES.

The idea that child molesters were all molested themselves is a corrosive and false idea that discourages victims from telling anyone what happened to them, lest they be branded a future pedophile for life.

A friend of ours came from an abusive household. She is also, like me, an experienced attorney. Her son is the same age as our son (both in elementary school) and they are friends. They attend the same camps. The night she told us that a neighbor, an older boy, showed her son how to masturbate, I was appalled. Then…