I don't understand how men don't get how bad that is. Tbh I mostly think it's an excuse that they supposedly don't know that it's not just "games" and "flirting". It is a powergame and meant to reduce women in public to a group which can be easily be judged by the other, socially dominant group - men. I think most of…

I'm really glad to read that not everyone posting is ignoring the dynamics of domestic violence as well as all the ways society failed this child. What seems to be given little mention is what really is best for the surviving children. Those that seem to think that her children being taken from her is the solution…

There was also this Buzzfeed article about abused women jailed for child endangerment after whose abusive partners murdered their children. The consequences of domestic abuse are beyond devastating when there are children in the mix. http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexcampbell/h…

I've never posted here before but always lurked. As a survivor of domestic violence, the responses here really sadden me.

There is so much victim blaming going on here. Sure, perhaps the mother is also a monster, or, more likely, she is a also a victim of this terrible man's abuse. Domestic violence isn't just physical - it's more than likely that he was exerting a LOT of power over her - emotionally, psychologically, financially, and…

I don't know this situation, but I work with DV survivors and quite often women who are being terrorized in abusive relationships end up losing their kids - sometimes permanently - because they're not able to protect them from abuse. This woman might be a monster, but this could also easily be another case where the…

Yeah, I'm pretty die-hard in the "cats indoors" camp, but some cats, especially if they spent part of their first year outdoors, are ruined for life. I was determined my cat, who was adopted at age one, would live a safe, plush indoor life for all her days. That asshole, on the other hand, did not agree. Now, she…

It needs to go outside. I had a cat like that once. It would literally run up walls. Then my roommate and I moved to a place with a backyard and started letting him explore outside. (I know, I know. They kill birds.) His personality COMPLETELY changed. He would explore outside to his heart's content and then come…

I have nothing against being an escort if that's a choice and good for her, I guess for still finding a way to make money but the whole thing makes me sad. Like, it doesn't feel like escort service was a legitimate choice she made, it's something she does out of desperation. Her whole life just bums me out. I can't…

When Lilo photoshops her photos, Jez makes fun of her. When Beyonce does it, she either had nothing to do with it, or she is a victim to the pressures on women to be perfect, or there's no certainty the obvious photoshop is really a photoshop.

Chikungunya isn't rare just because Americans haven't heard of it. It's wreaking havoc all over the tropics and while rarely fatal, is incredibly painful and lingers for months once you're infected. Everyone I know is affected, including my father in law who is 77, was already suffering from shingles, and now cannot…

At least Rayden can pretend they were named after a Mortal Kombat character

Bogus, racist, urban legend bullshit. Just like everyone who claims that their toddler son chewed his toast into the shape of a gun. On purpose.

Micheline is on there? Is that not a normal French name? I used to know someone by that name and never thought it was weird...

If you don't ever want children a vasectomy is a fairly easy procedure and can even be reversed should you change your mind.

I was (perhaps naively - or maybe I've just been desensitized to douche) thinking he didn't sound too bad. Until ....poetry...I think: hmmm, warning sign?...personal femme fatale. Hahaha, nope.

Maybe he should discover bisexuality

A femme fatale belongs to no man!

Twelve year old little resplendent decided to try blow drying her hair with a round brush to give it body, like 'Teen' magazine suggested. (This was in the pleistocene era, kids.)

I see any option as improvement. I chose natural deliveries for both of my kids simply because the only options were natural or epidural. Luckily everything went fine and I was able to deliver naturally even though my first child was overdue and HUGE and I'm very petite. Second child was also large but the pain was…