NO BRENDA IS NOT THE WOMAN ON THE LEFT!!
QueenKnope
queenknope
I sometimes think if men knew the actual truth, they’d die of shame from silencing women all these years. It’s why they fight us so hard when we do attempt to tell our stories: they do NOT want to know that this happened to women they cared about—their moms, grandmothers, great-grandmothers (god knows worse things…
If a guy calls a girl a slut guys have no problem believing him. But if 40 women accuse a guy of being a sexual predator people still don’t believe them.
If he goes on to kill another woman, the only person responsible for that action is him. She is not responsible for another human being’s actions.
The point is stopping someone from killing them in that moment. If someone is attacking me and I call 911, I am not calling because I want that person to be prosecuted. I am calling because if I do not, then I might die.
And of course her mental health is completely irrelevant! Take one for the team, right? Oh, you’re homeless, have extreme anxiety, are being multiply re-traumatised and have no money? Well I guess you should just suck it up. Which is a thing you can definitely do when you have an anxiety condition. Not like those…
That’s why the state is the prosecuter, not the victim. It takes anywhere from a year to three years to get to court. In the meanwhile, this woman became homeless because no authority could locate her abuser to make him pay child support. Yet she’s held in contempt?! Yet you think she should be spending her life…
I am extremely grateful, to this day, that the assistant DA who handled my DV case was as warm, helpful, feeling...geez I can’t even find the words to express how much she helped me, just by being patient with me and sympathizing with me. She gave me the strength to carry on, no matter how conflicted I felt, and was…
Ugh, I remember this story and how furious I was about it. I’m ashamed to say I had forgotten about it. I am very glad to get an update that there were at least some consequences. But they aren’t nearly enough.
I stubbed my toe on the low bar, but I do agree.
Why do you think it’s okay to put a label on someone else’s sexuality when they’re very clearly (at least) portraying the opposite label? I’m so tired of this stupid trope that every celebrity is secretly gay and bearding for the other secretly gay celebrity. It’s not new or funny or clever to keep insisting on…
Someone on Gawker once responded to my comment pointing out his misogyny by saying, “Says the fat woman who men ignore.”
Blink and you miss George Clooney in that GG clip.
Also: Bea Arthur was SO good. A walking Master Class, that one.
ugh I’m almost at the point where I would prefer dear sirs. My supervisor likes to open his emails with, “hello ladies”
I should be awe-ing at the cute kitty, but I’m pissed off at yet another portrayal of a thin, conventionally attractive woman and an overweight man. Apparently fat girls don’t get sexytime, even in pet food ads.
pro: LGBT people can win pageants now
THEY HAVE RISED!
I don’t think Scientologists with penises have to do that....