From the update, it appears that the young woman and her family were unwilling to go to trial where she would be truamatized again, but the precedent for a bdsm relationship that turns into one of extreme abuse, should be any relationship. Just because I agree to sleep with someone once, doesn’t mean he can do…

• In actual FACT, fathers who got to COURT regarding custody are more likely than not to get the custody they desire, in many cases, regardless of their fitness to take care of their children.

Anecdote vs. statistics- it’s a thing. 

I think you’re right that we’re not on entirely different pages, but you are misremebering/reading. Camilla married Parker Bowles in 1973 after Charles left on military duties. Charles and Camilla had been together since 1971 and she and Parker Bowles had previously dated but broken up and then reunited after Charles…

Yes, I understand that you are unlikely to let facts get in the way. Hint: you hate women. 

Why don’t you google, “men get richer after divorce,” there are thousands of articles and studies going back 40 years showing that men get richer through divorce while women get poorer. “Divorce makes men - and particularly fathers - significantly richer. When a father separates from the mother of his children,…

I am fast coming to the conclusion that it’s not just that women are disregarded and disrespected, I think we are actively hated and this reveals itself through the legal system over and over. 

You’re misremembering things substantially. Charles and Camilla were in a relationship for a couple of years in the early 70s before her marriage. He could have married her then had he chosen to, but he didn’t (or she didn’t). He re-ignited his relationship with her before he met Diana and that relationship continued…

That’s true, but it seems reasonable that he might be able to extrapolate that a significantly older person, with a lot more experience of different relationships might have a different take than he did with a long term girlfriend from about the age of 20.

Diana was an 18-19 year old virgin when they met while Charles was already over 30. She had only just turned 20 when they married and he was 32. When you have that much of an age and experience divide, it’s really on the older person to be mature and responsible- he very much wasn’t. 

To be fair, she did have 9 children. Few women enjoy being pregnant all the time or having a litter of children. In her era, you can add a healthy dose of mortal terror to each pregnancy.

William and Kate met when they were 18 or 19. Harry and Meghan met when they were both about 30. That disparity leads to a big difference in how long it takes a couple to settle down (in general). 

Almost every high school in the US requires (and has for decades) at least one Austen novel, Jane Eyre, and quite often, Ten Little Indians specifically. While these writers suffer from public perception based on being women writers, I don’t think it’s fair to say that they are not taken seriously in the literary…

I agree that the general public doesn’t take Austen seriously and mistakenly thinks she’s the mother of chick-lit (and purely because she’s a woman), but she is taken very seriously in the literary world.

I wouldn’t really say the relationship between Firth and his Portugese housekeeper grows organically. They can’t communicate in language whatsoever. He consistently mistakes her insults (mostly about him getting fat and being stupid) for admiring comments from the woman who is paid to make his house run smoothly,…

My problem with the Linney plotline as her being a real agent, is that her actions and choices all revolve around her miserably agnegating her life to another man (her brother) who (unwillingly or not) will treat her horribly and yet she’ll martyr herself to him.

Yep, I get all that. I’m pro union, but that doesn’t mean unions are perfect by any means. 

Don’t forget Thomas Wolfe! He’s probably the shining example of Perkins work. 

Ah, I read a bit more carefully. They reinstated the guys who saw the picture, not the one who shared it, which dos make more sense. I don’t know if you should be fired if someone showed you something- you might not even know what you were about to see (note: I do not know the details of the case). Still, the union…

That’s awful. I’m sorry.