“Oh you’re willing to call in a false report and possibly get me arrested or killed all because you don’t want me to leave you! You must love me so much to go through all of that trouble!” Gross.

Especially since BCPD is known for treating crime victims in predominantly poor, minority neighborhoods like criminals themselves. Call because your house was broken into, get questioned on your daily activities or why you had *insert expensive item here*. It’s not just the outright maliciousness of some police…

Even when you know that people cross the street all kinds of ways, you can still become distracted or just not give a fuck and assume that the person sees you and will get out the way. I live in Baltimore and I’ve watched people basically play chicken until, at the last minute, either the pedestrian runs across the…

I think there’s a definite unconscious bias when the victim of sexual abuse is a teen or young adult male because of the way our culture views male sexuality. There’s this sense of males not being victims but active participants - it’s why some people seemed less appalled when the adult cheerleader had sex with her…

I don’t think he’s mistaking parental love for sexual attraction. His biological mother was sexually attracted to him and followed through with that attraction, most likely playing on his emotional needs in the process. If really don’t think that legit, parental love ever factored into it.

Not just so much younger but likely dealing with a lot of other emotions around meeting his birth mother. So you have the combination of the usual teenage/young adult search for identity and the uncertainty of meeting a your birth parent - it can be easy for a person to get caught up in that moment and for someone who…

The person drove off when someone started shooting at them. Can’t blame them for that. It looks like just a large street so I can see someone going faster than they would on a smaller, residential street and I can also see someone being distracted, not expecting to see a person in the middle of the street, and…

Attar’s situation bothers me way more than Muhammad because see basically had to submit to specific cultural/religious norms in order to represent Saudi Arabia. To me that’s saying that, no matter what your athletic accomplishments as a woman, it doesn’t matter unless you follow these specific rules. And her donning…

The Cure’s Sinking or From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

This. I don’t believe in outright disrespecting someone or trying to force them to reject an important aspect of their culture because I wouldn’t want the same done to me. It’s insulting to act as if Muslim women have absolutely no agency in choosing to wear the hijab or observe - in my opinion - ridiculous culture…

My issue with this sentiment is that, even if the culture is horrible, who am I (or anyone else) to take that away from someone or to make them feel inferior or ignorant for honoring specific cultural practices? I think that the idea of being so modest that you can’t show any skin is ridiculous. To me it’s used as a…

And it’s always the same bullshit about how they’re just out to ruin a powerful black man/get money. Never mind that these women will see not a dime or that Bill Cosby is not actually worth ruining. It’s like this automatic response kicks in with some people to defend assholes like Cosby and R Kelly and completely…

No we don’t. Yes family annihilators tend to overwhelmingly be men but that does not mean that, in this case, the women wasn’t the one pulling the trigger. And they all had some serious shit going on. This isn’t necessarily a case of someone who’s pissed off that his wife/girlfriend wants to leave and decides to kill…

I remember that. He seemed like such a horrible, shitty person who didn’t just not understand his wife’s mental illness, he actively didn’t care. He wanted to do what he wanted to do or what he felt his religion told him to do - have as many children as possible and have Andrea be the stay at home wife/mother and home…

I recently saw their Unsung episode. So depressing to see how much tbey suffered and are still struggling with the years of abuse. But yeah marrying, dating, or being friends with someone of a different race doesn’t automatically mean that person can’t be racist

They are. Educators, doctors, pretty much anyone who works professionally with kids can be considered a mandatory reporter and it doesn’t matter whether they were third hand and didn’t see the abuse occur. Which, by the way, is a super flimsy excuse. I would argue that the majority of mandatory reporters don’t see the…

I’m sure there’s someone out there who’s so enlightened that they’re free of prejudice. We just haven’t come across them yet.

I’m hoping for troll but I know that shit like this happens for real.

I’m going to assume that this letter is not a total troll.

It’s perfectly feasible that a person can have close friends or even date/marry someone of another race and still have racist opinions about the larger group. They make an exception for the people they know personally - they’re not like all of those other *insert racial/ethnic slur of your choice*. People in general…