I can tell you mean well, but holy shit, that is probably the worst thing you can tell someone. Especially someone who was raped.

It is entirely possible to be really angry about something, but to never actually resort to any sort of actual violence. Thinking about revenge can itself be therapeutic, as long as one keeps those thoughts in their rightful place. it is about self control. I recently heard a person arguing about the gun control issue…

People seem to be conflating fantasies with realities. They are different. For instance, when a bicycle cuts me off in traffic, I fantasize about hitting them, then I don’t him them, then I get home and do whatever I had planned to do that day. Has anyone been harmed? Am I a danger to society? No. I am just a guy who…

I think where your argument doesn’t hold water is that her rage is focused. If she was picturing all men or all men who looked like her rapists or all situations that angered her then she might be on her way down that slippery slope, but that isn’t the case. Her rage is specific and because of that it really isn’t all…

True, but I think our society is too harsh on revenge fantasies. It’s our monotheism speaking, always claiming that revenge is incompatible with justice. I never agreed with that statement in its absolutist formulation. I embrace revenge fantasies as the absolute right of any victim.

A gun nut is an individual who holds their 2nd Amendment rights to be more important than the lives and safety of American citizens and opposes any and all gun control measures because of that. You could also describe them as the type of people who never leave the house without a gun in their waistband because you…

Disagree completely. She shows no signs of “dangerous mental instability” and it’s incredibly patronizing to suggest that she has one when she is, in fact, being blunt about fantasies it is perfectly normal to have.

It seems to me the practice shooting and the mental processes around it are very different from the act of actually killing people, especially people who didn’t rape you, like in your examples. You’re slippery-sloping this and it’s not intellectually honest.

Why is this comment out of the greys?

who wore it better tho?

He didn’t do shit to her but make her shooting day a little difficult for two damn days because he was old and alcoholic.

You know, sometimes when I talk to my therapist I tell her about the most recent news I read. I’m occasionally depressed. And when we talk about medication, I wonder: how are we supposed to live in a society that demonstrates how little we matter, every fucking day, and not be depressed? How are women supposed to see…

Agreed. First of all, he earned the right to be grumpy. He was Peter freakin’ O’Toole.

I imagine there’s more to it, but yeah, the anecdote about a guy almost 70 having trouble going up stairs wasn’t the most compelling argument for it.

Oh damn it. Good thing I’m in the grays here because it’s basically just a repeat of your comment.

If a child expresses a strong enough desire to live in the opposite gender, they should be allowed to. Trust me, no parent is allowed to take this decision lightly, and they do so with the full support of gender therapists and medical doctors. There is a well established procedure to ensure that children who want to…

I don’t think you’re giving enough credit to kids. They know a lot at an early age about themselves, and to deny them that causes irreparable harm. We aren’t talking about taking hormones at that age to change genders, but we are talking about letting kids express their true identity, and that’s a good thing.

Children that young are not given any permanent medical treatment. “Transitioning” at that age just means they get to wear their hair the way they want and wear the clothes they want.

Same, I liked Bernie a lot more at the beginning of this. And until pretty recently, too. Now... not so much.

Ugh, I started out liking Bernie a lot. Then as time went on, I liked him less and less. Was it his terrible team members who keep calling Hillary a “whore” (or other gendered slurs)? Was it his failure to deliver a sensible plan for his ideas? Was it because his vocal internet crowd kept posting annoying (often…