I guess what I was driving at with"lay off the judge" was we need to look at the framework. It's totally fucked up that he was able to decide that way and focusing solely on the judge may not be enough to prevent this from happening again.

I'm curious how Indian law is set up to handle marital rape. If it's not illegal in terms of the law, then I really don't see how this guy could have been prosecuted.

Probably the same reason so many young women take unpaid internships. Exposure, foot-in-the-door, etc. When they complain about it they're told they're just being whiny, "what did you expect" so on and so forth.

AM I THE ONLY ONE GOING CRAZY OVER "EFFECTED"

Coming from NM (huge native population) I see it as tacky. Not offensive but it is a little... weird. Like kanji tattoo on a white girl weird.

I've been wondering: what about those denominations that don't believe in medicine, period? If Hobby Libby wins does that mean a business could get out of providing health insurance because medicine is against their religion?

My problem with this is not all states use Square equally. I can tell you right now that NM is always 5-10 years behind as far as technology goes. The only places here that have Square are fancy bistro type places in Santa Fe which is brimming with tourists.

Okay. The last thing we need is another story from a white Western woman clutching her pearls over the "deplorable" conditions of non-Western women.

*yawn* I wish my parents could afford to pay my tuition so I could go on some altruistic masturbatory trip through Nepal too.

It's Ukraine, not THE Ukraine. This mostly innocuous slip up has some history behind it: Ukraine roughly means "the borderlands" but the addition of "the" when referring to Ukraine was used as a linguistic dagger to undermine their statehood during the good ole USSR days. Rather than being "Ukraine," a sovereign…

Until the US comes around to maternity leave and pregnancy discrimination THE FACTORY IS CLOSED.

I worked for a fancy-pants restaurant in Albuquerque where I was constantly gaslighted and demeaned by my boss. There were very few guys in the front end but if they showed up in wrinkled clothes looking like a lukewarm turd they'd have a bro-ey laugh about it. If I showed up without makeup or, god forbid, without…