Even though this is a sad American problem, I am hoping that it also ends up with an American solution. If the government won’t help her, private business won’t help her, and she must stay criminally underinsured, then at least I hope her GoFundMe blows up with an absurdly large amount of donations. I hope she gets so…

I have always been especially interested in history, even as a child. I used to read every history textbook I could get my hands on, whether they were my own from school or others that I would buy at used book stores. In college, I took several classes that covered the time period of the Tulsa Race Massacre and I also…

He hit her head against the dashboard TWENTY TIMES!!! That isn’t the same thing as someone hitting an abuser back once or twice due to genuine fear while in the middle of being attacked. If this man feared for his life, surely he would have incapacitated her after a few of those violent strikes. This was pure…

Abuse tends to be cyclical, so the relationship isn’t all bad, every single day. After a major abuse episode, it is common for the abuser to apologize profusely and swear that it will never happen again. He or she may even offer to enter counseling, get married, or do some other grand gesture to show that they have…

Perhaps they should simply classify FGM as child abuse, then.  These girls ranged in age from 7-13!

My mother is a hardcore hoarder who kept being downgraded to smaller and smaller apartments. She’s always had a particularly strong fascination with kitchen gadgets and appliances; she buys all these things so she can cook all the time, but then she literally does not have an inch of countertop or table space upon…

I hope it all works out for you!

And it’s annoying because then other people assume that people with celiac disease are also just being “trendy” about not being about being able to eat gluten.

Well, we have a wild turkey in our neighborhood who is fairly used to people and likes to eat out of bird feeders. Yesterday, out of nowhere, she walked right up to me making cooing noises and took some food from my hand. Now today for Thanksgiving, she is walking around peeking in everyone’s windows as they enjoy…

This article is incorrect. D&G isn’t claiming that the videos were the results of hacking. They created those three short videos for social media as a promotion for the fashion show which was called a “tribute to China.” However, there was a backlash regarding the content of the videos that was substantial enough to…

I don’t know why we as a society continue to expect abusers to look like boogeymen in spite of the fact that most of us as individuals are familiar with at least one of these chameleon-type abusers.

I am so sorry that you have had to keep living in that cycle, and that you are dealing with it right now. Sometimes it feels like it just doesn’t end, and I know firsthand that disability can make the situation feel even more impossible.

My ex was a pediatric intensive care nurse and a complete monster. People treated him like he was some kind of saint, and he truly believed himself to be a morally superior person compared to people who worked in other careers.

There is such a duality to it as well. On one hand, the woman is seen as essentially passive, a decoration, an object, there for the taking, and a sexual toy; on the other hand, she is seen as powerful, predatory, devious, and a sexual danger.

“It’s horrifying how quotidian the story is. A “domestic dispute.” An “altercation.” And then a murder [...] I hate feeling like I’m writing the same story over and over.”

Actually, I think we ARE in agreement but that perhaps the way I worded the last post lent itself to a little misunderstanding.

It’s that big blinding smile. It is supposed to signal that this guy is a wonderful, friendly sort of person, but there is actually no warmth coming from his face; his eyes don’t smile.

It sure seems like a lot of commercials related to Christmas are coming out right after Halloween now. It always makes me so thankful that I don’t have any children—or worse, teens—that I have to spend many hundreds of dollars on for that year’s “must-have” electronics. I don’t know how any parent can even try to keep…

Oh God, it gets worse:

It is extremely frustrating that there is so little information that has been released to the public at this point because some of the facts would seem to be easily verifiable, such as the clothes he was wearing when he died (were they clearly marked as security or not?). Sure, clothing could be removed or altered,…