4 of my mother's 6 siblings don't care to talk to their own mother 3 are pretty well estranged. 1 absolutely has no contact with her. That one is the one who was called a "whore" by that woman for breaking up with her then-husband who she had caught molesting a member of our family (who was like 10 at the time). …

I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family. My parents weren't abusive, and I don't actively dislike them or anything, but...I just don't want to be around them. Like, almost ever. I have one or two things in common with my…

Yup. I fought that battle with my now-fiance. He just didn't believe that I wasn't, at least, a contributing factor. He now knows better.

I told my mother flat out to keep her mouth shut about my childhood. My parents are great parents to an adult child, but to a child-child? Never did a more abusive pair of fuckups walk this earth. Under no circumstances will I tell that woman that she was a good mother, and I told her that a part of me will hate her…

Classic narcissist.

I agree. It's pretty easy to go there with the hate, and I was there for a long time. One day, I was ready to move on...no more free rent inside my head for someone who was either unwilling or unable to care for me.

Good for you. I feel like indifference is really ok and healthy. Ambivalence less so, and hatred can be horrifically destructive. indifference is underrated and a perfectly acceptable step towards/alternative to forgiveness.

Oh yeah. I've seen it happen over and over. I mean as an adult I get that there are three sides to every story: Mine, yours and the truth - but the angry self - righteousness of people who physically abused me and literally abandoned me (as opposed to the equally sucky emotional abandonment) makes flames grow out of…

Every two/three days in the winter, every other day in the summer. (Obvious exception if I have done something to make myself stinky/dirty)

Could it all be because she can't have the one thing she really wants — another baby?

Is a member of another oppressed minority (First Nations), I disagree quite strongly with this.

I just posted the same thing. I'm really glad they didn't drug a lion just for a silly photoshoot. (Also still languishing in greys).

OK. Blossom.

Yeah, I'm almost positive that this article was tongue in cheek, but if it's not I vehemently disagree with it. I'm *glad* she didn't exploit a real life lion for a silly thing like this.

So many men don't want women earning real money because all these guys have to offer is earning power. If women as a whole could close the wage gap, these clowns would have to come to the table with good personalities, good looks, a certain weight/ height, etc. You know, all the shit that women are required to have in…

I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to be an asshole about it, it's just - obviously - this is really important to me.

This matters because the perception that nobody knows any rapists actually contributes to rape culture. If nobody knows one, there must not be so many, right? Wrong.

I really didn't intend for that to come across as hostile, but it is accurate. I'm so tired of all the people who say they don't know any rapists. Oh, no one I know would do that! Well, sorry, but you probably know someone who has.

She doesn't. I'm sure the family and friends of the two men who raped me would also say that they don't know any rapists.

How on earth do you know they don't rape?