This line of thinking drives me up the wall. I was a nurse for ten years in locked psych. We had patients that were violent. Yet, in my old profession, we did not raise a hand to them. We de-escalated, we redirected, we disarmed. All without a weapon or military grade armor. Just me, my NACs and nurses, all in scrubs.

Turns out doxxing a public official is highly illegal

Imagine, just imagine if Dr Ford had behaved like this, how would this have worked out for her?

Appellate judges? Even Judge Milan (People’s Court, my favorite)  and Judge Judy don’t let litigants get away with that. He knows better but his sense of entitlement didn’t care. He’s still trying to make the cool guys laugh. 

It’s not GREAT, but I don’t think infidelity is on the same level of “bad person, disqualified from leadership positions!” as sexual harassment. Yes, there is a consent issue involved (his wife likely would not have slept with him if she had known), but unless his mistress was his subordinate at work, it’s just…

Regardless of what happens (and I do hope there are additional hearings and full investigations into the allegations) it takes the amazing bravery of just one woman to start the driving of an axe. They are all equally incredible in their willingness to wade into this cesspit of media and public scrutiny, and thank…

wonders if the allegations of sexual assault should disqualify Kavanaugh from serving on the Supreme Court “even if it’s all true.”

Sometimes I have found men in my own life with the most progressive personas to be more autocratic and abusive than others. Totally my own experience, nothing more.

Two things.

What really broke my heart was how his actions were consistently short of prosecutable, and he apparently knew what he could get away with under the law. According to the accounts I’ve read, it appeared that some of those trying to help were frustrated they couldn’t do so in a manner that would result in proper…

Yeah, I imagine she’s been estranged from her family. She spent her childhood telling everyone about this and nothing ever came of it.

It’s about a middle-aged man’s affair with a much younger actress

She’s trash. Horrible.

I disagree.  Not everyone wants their families dirty laundry laid out in public, especially when they have children.

I have no idea when she is coming back.

Nobody is calling him Jimmy Saville, that man was a literal rapist and the devil incarnate. But it’s not great, and it’s worse because he’s Paul Walker. When it’s some middling dude with no prospects who winds up with a 16 year old because they’re impressionable and fall or an older man then while it is creepy and…

This made my skin crawl. Yeah he was a good person over all, a passionate and down to earth guy. But still. What the fuck, man?

Maybe this is just me speaking for myself, but I think dating someone less than half your age is intrinsically creepy.

good! I’m sure he’s innocent. His face just screams “I treat women with respect.”

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