The way you didn't get raped was excellent though. I'm filing your story away later to tell my daughter when she's bigger. I've also read that singing or telling a story in that kind of situation can repulse the attacker but I've never tried it out. Also it would be hard to come up with something on the spot I…

Also, you're doing truly divine work. Keep fighting the good fight. ❤️ It must be very difficult, but you must seem like a guardian angel to the victims.

Thank you. It’s been ten years and a lot of therapy/long term stable relationship since then and I’m alright now. I’ve found the most solace reading the comment threads on stories like these. The worst part of the trauma was the attitude that so many people had that I deserved it. For drinking. I wasn’t even made up a…

My rapist was a close friend who spiked someone else’s drink. She gave it to me bc she didn’t like it and I went from 2 beer tipsy to crazy shitfaced in about an hour and the last thing I remember is being in that guys room with several other guys. I woke up in the morning to him sticking it in me and jumped up, ran…

Good math ing. I doubt it’s only 1-2 per day in the USA but yes, there’s a population size difference. I can see you’re very invested in... Idk American gun apology and crunching numbers, so you keep on doing that.

I was readzing this article and muttered Attwood to myself... Only to discover husband has never heard that quote! Wth? I failed him... I think we need to get it put on billboards and wear shirts with it on in some kind of coordinated campaign so they alllllll see the quote...

It's not, though. :-/

Yes, but... There’s no guns in Australia (where I live) and women are killed by their partners at a rate of “only” 1-2 per week. Just saying. It's grim and it still happens but it's not like 1-2 per day kwim?

Nah woulda been at least ‘08. Every time I went to the gym to work off baby fat, beyonce and her mega thighs were on the screen. Loved it, love her, gave me something to work towards. ;)

We don’t need to repeal the second amendment, just read it and do what it says: “...a WELL REGULATED militia...”

I don’t know, but I do know medical marijuana is as old as written words. Ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, seshat, was depicted with cannabis over her head, and associated with healing/understanding. Herodotus wrote about vaping pot off of hot stones. It’s been written about innumerable times over the millennia to…

I like pot, have for years. I was always a bit iffy on the miraculous qualities of it until I treated my neighbor who was dying of cancer. He’d gone in for surgery and they ended up taking his bladder, there was so much cancer. He wasn’t expecting to come out into a morphine coma and never be able to speak to his wife…

There are strains with high cbd/low thc. Someone who loves me grows it for me. I’m high functioning (generally) autistic and it does wonders for my sensory problems, impulse control and appetite/sleep regulation. Since I went on it I’ve gone from being *this close* to being institutionalised/suicidal to being actively…

I like this. Me too. If only I didn't have regular work to do...

It is an excellent podcast.

How how how could they possibly think it's not worth it? Is your paper somewhere I can read it? That's important work, necessary work. Please post.

I did it three times in college, ten years ago. No one cared much, though my mom was surprised when I came back from France and told me I had to let someone know when I left the country. I usually came back after a few weeks and I was bright enough to get away with it grades-wise.

And seems obvious she wasn’t merely socialising, hit had turned to close friends in her time of need. They hung out and made her feel pretty and we’re all like “who cares if he’s Jonny Depp?? Oh hell no, no, he can’t treat you that way. Girl, go tomorrow and file for divorce, get yourself a restraining order, hell,…

Historically, being a cretin goes along with the gig, with a handful of exceptions. It's not them, must just be the Internet.

As a bi woman married to a man, I agree.