I disagree about Noel. He sticks out like a sore thumb. Ugh.

I get so pissed when he talks about Wharton. You were there two years and only have a Bachelors degree. My husband and I have more education than him. Who brags about their undergrad days?

I’ve had a lot of therapy with an incredible psychologist. It helped.

Thank you. It’s a hard subject for me. I don’t always know how to say how I feel.

You’re correct. I don’t like to be a victim of the person who assaulted me, though. It feels like I’ll always be his victim. He’s a family member. I’m not his fucking victim, but I also don’t feel like a survivor. I strive to win, somehow. Take back what he stole from me. I just don’t have a term for what I feel. Each…

I refer to people as survivors because that’s the preferred term of the University where I work. My husband deals with sexual assault in universities every day and always uses “survivors.” The term just sticks in my mind.

I have to wonder why she agreed to such a high settlement if it was innocent.

You’re right. My rudeness was uncalled for. I’m sorry. There are many guidelines in workplaces about improper relationships such as boss/subordinate or professor/student. I don’t think it would be possible to pass a law other than the ones we have regarding minors. 

You really sound like a creep.

How do you know it was just one?!

I wish he would’ve dumped her ass.

^^This^^

I am so fucking sick of that phrase. No, it doesn’t. I was sexually abused. I would never dream of putting someone else through that. When you say that, it makes survivors feel damaged, as if we are doomed to continue the cycle. 

He was a minor. She did have power over him by telling him she was casting a movie he wanted to be in. Congrats on your sexual prowess with old women. Ever think those your own age didn’t want you?

In my own dark family history, my grandfather was sexually abused by his mother. My grandpa went on to have sex with my grandma’s (his wife) sister and mother (my great-grandma) while my grandma was having one or another of their six kids. I was sexually abused throughout my childhood by a relative, but not him. 

THANK YOU!

She seems to be very arrogant from articles and interviews I’ve seen. That can lead to her “I can but you can’t” attitude.

I was sexually abused throughout my childhood. I have never abused anyone. I’m not about to give a pass to those who go on to abuse others. Asia Argento can fuck right off with Weinstein and the rest.

Some high ranking personnel always keep their clearances so they can be brought in in case of an emergency. My husband’s uncle was very, very high up in a government organization for a certain type of security for the US. He was dying of cancer yet the government refused to let him retire. He simply knew too much that…

I thought the same. My ring is custom (technically) because I picked the stone and the setting. We worked with a jeweler we trusted to find the best combo to make my ring what I wanted. Not unusual.