The way I see it, at least one of two things need to start happening with American policing (ideally both), either we actually start having gun control laws that work so that officers aren’t always functioning under a somewhat reasonable assumption that anyone and everyone might have a gun at all times, or we start…

Britney also serenaded herself on her birthday with an acapella rendition of “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”

AIDS was the first time since WWII and the leap forward with antibiotics/vaccines that many modern American/Western health care professionals saw a plague.

Fuck this woman. Fuck fuck fuck this woman.

Ann Curry will always be a classier Lady than me. This morning, I sat down on the couch with a cup of coffee, and my husband comes running out of the bedroom and goes “YOU ARE GOING TO BE SO EXCITED!” And I was like “wut?” And he yells “MATT LAUER GOT FIRED!” And then we danced around.

Yeah, it’s pretty stunning to realise. I acutely remember marital rape being hotly debated in the 1970's and as a kid, even I was puzzled. How was it possible that a husband could rape his wife? She was his wife. That didn’t make any sense.

If the harassment was considered minor (staring at breasts; groping; unwanted touching, etc.), we needed to suck it up, keep our heads down, and do our work. Fairly well the only sexual harassment considered worth the name was pressure to sleep with the boss or actual rape. And even then, one was likely not to be…

Exhibit A: Monica Lewinsky.

And people should know it isn’t like this is a 70s thing. That was a classic part of 90s feminism.

That expectation is still very real in a lot of firms.

It’s crazy how much of feminism has been about pleasing and placating men all in order to be a part of patriarchal institutions.

My mother worked in big law firms starting in the 70s, and through the 80s... she has horror stories. And yes, the expectation was that you wouldn’t complain and not rock the boat.

And they say it while minimizing what happened no matter how heinous and this is 2017, imagine their reaction 10 or 20 years ago.

I’d say the fact that the power suit was something women were advised to wear during the eighties says it all. If women were done the favor of being let into the boy’s club, they were expected to blend in as much as possible.

Generational note.

Funny how so many apologists keep parroting on about “why didn’t these women say anything sooner?”, and apart from the fact that there are a million valid reasons that most victims don’t come forward at the time, there’s also the fact that actually a lot of them did and were utterly ignored because no one gave a shit…

Catherine the Great’s predecessor Elizabeth made a public vow not to execute anyone during her reign, so she instead imprisoned traitors, murderers, etc. for life and had an initial for their crime branded on their foreheads.

“Dude might as well have “RAPIST” tattooed on his forehead...”

Markie Post is my everything.

Aww applesauce, sure is swell to see all those bluenoses get the old what for. Grab some giggle water and pop some ankle ya ducky little shin crackers!!