Add the infamous “bathroom bills”.

“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They are the ball.”

I don’t buy into this tribal BS. I don’t hate them because they are Republicans or Conservatives. I hate them because they are supporting a lying moron who is ruining this country, just to “own the libs”. No matter what anyone believes, there is still right and wrong, and no amount of talking points changes being on…

I literally yelled, “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!” at my computer at that point in the article. I’ve long since become a bitter, cynical person who fully expects the police not to give a shit about rape victims, but “a cop decided a freaking seven-year-old was probably lying about being raped simply because she…

The whole CNN article left me fuming but the story where a Nevada police department dismissed the 7 year old’s claims as unfounded because she looked away when telling the interviewing detective about her anal, oral, AND vaginal rape made me just about lose what little faith I had left in the justice system. I want to…

so when do they get prosecuted for destruction of evidence?

In addition to the anger, I feel frustration and sadness at how this just feeds into the belief that women should never report their rapes to the police. How many of the victims’ friends and family went on to be raped, but saw what happened to the victims, and decided not to report?

I’m beginning to suspect they don’t really care about protecting women from rapists, domestic violence, or other sex abusers. Just look at that horrific new report from the Miami Herald about Jeffrey Epstein. The prosecutor who buried the case of serial child abuse is now even the Sec. of Labor under Trump. I wonder…

Nah you probably wouldn’t actively advocate for the legal discrimination of Republicans. They’re happy to do so when it comes to pretty much everyone that’s not a white man.

Same. I grew up really conservative, and considered myself one all the way through college (I didn’t have a lot of friends, also it was Texas). For me it took living in another country (UK, Japan) to realize that the USA is not some unique special place, and that everything I’d been told would destroy society hadn’t…

There is a lot of truth to this. I was raised Catholic and recall clearly people talking about “partial-birth abortion.” As a young person, I remember thinking it was monstrous. As an adult, I look back in dismay at the intentional misinformation that was being disseminated. And my world cracked way TF open in a…

This makes me furious. Also, since some research shows that rapists tend to rape more than once, it undermines other cases as well. Imagine if a rapist (for example the guy who raped his former girlfriend) did the same thing years later. With a rape kit and a cooperating witness, it’s more likely that he would…

We have the choice: Being uncooperative or hysterical.

I wonder if these police departments employ the same types of letters, time frames, and destruction of evidence in other, non-rape crimes. But honestly, I probably already know the answer to that.

It’s perfectly fine to dislike someone because they choose to hold abhorrent beliefs and say abhorrent things.  Those aren’t exactly immutable characteristics.

Yeah, intolerance to bigotry is not intolerance.

It doesn’t make you small minded if you don’t tolerate intolerance in others. 

The “oppressed” conservative.

Um, Ted Cruz was up by 19 pts at the start of the election cycle, at the end it was within 3. Not only that but Beto pushed down ballot races in Texas like no democrat before.

How was Beto a victim of his own fame, exactly? He was never expected to beat Cruz, but ended up coming painfully close and gaining international attention.