I would also say: I am a lawyer. I have been both a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. I can tell you that people do make stuff up. Not all the time. Not the majority of the time. But it happens. I have had clients DEMONSTRABLY falsely accused of rape and domestic violence. E.g., in the most insane case I had, my…

No, of course that's not true. That's not what I was saying. It is of course possible that he beat up that lady. But it is also possible he did not! We don't know — and unlike the Chris Brown/Rihanna horror show, there no proof. I realize that the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is specific to the justice…

Uh, you would? Why? Have you not noticed that famous people settle lawsuits pretty often without going to court BECAUSE they're famous and don't want to get dragged through a trial? If you got beat up by someone famous, and you retained a lawyer, that lawyer would tell you to sue that motherfucker for millions in…

Yes. I think Fassbender is sexy. But if there were proof that he had beaten some lady and it wasn't in self-defense or defense of another, I would no longer find him sexy.

Yes, thank God someone is saying this.

Yes. Let's assume that everyone who is accused of a crime is guilty, even when 1. There is no evidence and 2. The charges were dropped. That is totally fair and right.

Don't feed the trolls.

Sure. It's just — most of the time there are options, you know? Birth doesn't have to be 100% panic, is the point I was trying to make. The OP seems freaked out and I wanted to reassure her that it doesn't have to be Pain-Fest 3000 up in her uterus if she doesn't want it to be.

Yes. This. Having kids is like having a vital organ, your pancreas, say, walking around outside of you at all times. You can't protect it completely. You can't stop people from hurting it. If something ever happened to it, you're sure that you wouldn't survive.

Well, here's the good news: you are in control. You can request pain medication, which totally works. With my first baby, I suffered through 14 hours of crushing labor before getting an epidural and was like, "Crap, I should have done this 14 hours ago."

Remember, this is an age now that if your kids are too overweight, and you do nothing about it, the state can and will take your kids. We should be encourage better choices for the next generation, not only will this lead to better habits for kids now, and their kids in the future, but it will also leads to better…

And your definitely terrible at grammar.

I will be snarky because you are being an asshole: people might listen to you more if you figured out the whole punctuation and grammar thing.

Or better yet, she could butt the fuck out of other people's business!

God forbid your head should exit your rectum.

Or recognize a good joke when you see one!

Word. My family is white, but my former sister in law's family is Puerto Rican, and while she was married to my brother all her family talked about is how her kids were going to be lighter skinned and beautiful because of the white blood they'd have. It was so uncomfortable to hear.

Uh, beams and motes, girl.

Yes. I couldn't get through it because it was not edited well and difficult to read, which awakens my inner Grammar Scold.

This is a perspective I hadn't thought about. I think you're probably right — mainstream America is comfortable seeing black people as victims or downtrodden people, or otherwise as gangsters. They're not comfortable just seeing, you know, black people. Doing stuff. I know this site kind of both loves and hates on…