Ideally, no.

I find this interesting, because that is the way I talk about my own sexual assault - a verbal shrug. It’s a distancing tactic. It is too unbearable to talk about, so I shut down the conversation, implying that it’s no big deal to me.

I hope that woman takes her $6 million and lives the most ostentatiously fabulous life she can, while that pathetic excuse for a man rots. She deserves that much just for having the courage to report, with the deck stacked against her.

Essentially, if you need to go out, make sure you leave your vagina at home.

Pretty much the whole of Britain - there was a drive to get “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead” to number one in the charts, the week of her funeral, but radio stations didn’t play ball.

Been there. My partner was extensively discriminated against for their disability. The employer actively made it impossible for her to do her job, then docked her pay because of it. Cut and dried case, but the union rep dithered about, trying to pacify the employer, for so long that it went out of time. And this is a…

Jesus. As a Brit, I have genuinely never encountered that quote before (Depression-era America was on the school syllabus, so I was aware things were pretty shocking, but - fuck.) The UK has its share of race problems - at present, primarily Islamophonia - but I read that and the U.S. makes more sense, in a truly…

Yes. YES. So much yes. The number of times I have heard how you should forgive your abusers, because only then can you move past the anger, blah blah blah. As though the anger is a bad thing, rather than a justifiable consequence of what was done to you. What they mean is “your anger makes me uncomfortable”.

I would love, so love, for this to be someone standing up and (extremely) bravely making a point about institutional racism, which will come out later in a trial.

*gives up*

Sorry, no, I get the “cops need to be armed” but, but “100% justified” is bullshit. He was a mentally ill kid, having some sort of episode. You get a few big cops in riot helmets and bring him down. Killing him is NOT inevitable, as demonstrated by the fact that it wouldn’t have happened in the UK.

I do see that carrying firearms is a sad necessity for US police. Nevertheless, in this specific incident, it is clear that police firearms were the only ones in play. Someone made a choice to kill a kid armed with *a piece of wood*.

Listen, if the London Metropolitan police can bring down a jihadi, stabbing people at a tube station, without serious harm to anyone, there is no fucking excuse for this shit! A sick kid and an innocent mother. Jesus.

Quite. Or even a taser. I mean, i’m alarmed by the stats just released, on the proportion of mentally ill people tasered by police in the UK, but you know what? At least they aren’t fucking dead!

I think I land somewhere in the middle. My cats are undoubtedly child substitutes, since the chance of my having children is upsettingly slim. I love them, coddle them, put up with them wrecking the house and shoving me off my own bed. I spent a terrifying amount of money treating my previous cat for diabetes over the…

This is a fascinating piece. I can relate to a degree, as someone who is queer and disabled - I cringe when straight friends post fluff pieces about gay marriages of conveniently photogenic couples. And as for - *shudder* - those godawful cripspiration, “what’s your excuse?” memes, they make me want to punch the…

Four cats, four opportunities to do this exact thing every evening!

Really? I absolutely love thinking that stuff. It means precisely nothing I’ve done to fuck up my life matters one iota.

So, how much do we think the “private evidence” was in pounds sterling? I can’t conceive of another reason this has happened. Rich guy, corrupt system, this country is f***ed.

Thank you. I found this quite upsetting. I’ve had depression, PTSD and intermittent psychosis since my teens. I am 38. I do occasional voluntary work. I will never own a house. I will never have children. I will never have the adult life the author of this is PRIVILEGED to have.