I used to think like her, like I was safe because I made better choices, didn’t drink, didn’t “let” men treat me certain ways. It’s a mental defense mechanism that allows her to think she is safe when she absolutely is not. The reality that you can be assaulted at any time just going about your daily life as a woman…

She is fucking wacky. Something clearly happened to her in her life that made her hate being a woman.

What’s pissing me off is she’s conflating a man making a sexual advance with a man not taking no for an answer.

It makes me so angry the assumption is men will attack and rape you because they can’t handle blue balls/disappointment. No, that is not what all men just do. That’s what people who rape do. Going into a hotel room does not mean you’re expecting or consenting to sex.

Maddening as it is, that’s the perspective of my SIL and MIL—both actual women, licensed counselors and card-carrying trumpies. Unless he’s got a knife, a ski mask and maybe roofies, it’s not rape or assault and all claims are just money-grubbing.

She’s so absurdly evil. She doesn’t even seem like a real person. Like, I’d roll my eyes if she was the villain in a Lifetime movie and think it was corny how over the top shitty she is. 

This is the argument everyone uses for defense attorneys, which is fine, everyone is entitled to a defense under law. This however does not exempt that attorney from criticism for their choice to defend that person or how they defend them. We all still shit on Robert Kardashian for defending OJ, and I personally hope…

What the actual F. Can this person’s humanity card be revoked? 

The unspoken part of these arguments is that it makes all men out to be assholes. If you honestly believe in the “You went to a guy’s hotel room, what did you expect?” you’re admitting that a) you think the victim is an idiot and b) all men are devious predators.

May he be forever cursed to having 5 year old super hyperactive seat kickers pummel his kidneys on every flight, plus seat neighbors who won’t stop trying to weasel him into Amway or another MLM on everrrry signle flight he will ever take.

The universe did some fucking BACK BREAKING to make this all come to a head, and I seriously wouldn’t have believed it if it hadn’t happened *to me.*

When I was 22, after a brief eyeroll hiatus from Thought Catalog, I decided to randomly read some articles there during some down time. If you don’t know Thought Catalog,…

Words to fucking live by:

I once had a guy break up with me in the passenger unloading zone while dropping me off for an out of town flight. It was cowardly AF, but also kind of ingenious because he knew he only had to deal with me for about 3 minutes before security would move him on.

(I was broken up with) After 8 years together out of the blue, on Facebook, on a Wednesday while I was at work. We were both in our 30s. Grow up. 

The recidivism rate for kids who commit murder is almost nonexistent. You aren’t protecting society, just protecting the violent and bloodthirsty prison industrial complex to sate your desire for punishment.

There is a reason no other civilised county does this. Just bloodthirsty retribution. 

My compassion is not a finite resource, nor should anyone else’s be. I don’t believe it miserly doling it out to only the people you deem deserving. Life sentences for minors is wrong.

Agreed. The crime he committed was horrible and he deserves a long sentence, but the idea of someone spending all but the twilight years of their adulthood in prison after what they did at 16 is unsettling.

Children shouldn’t get 50 year sentences 

I had an abortion at 20 weeks for a chromosomal abnormality and I cannot imagine having to go through it in a state that refuses to treat women like human beings. I made the decision based on conversations with my OB and a doctor who specializes in chromosomal abnormalities. They were able to give me the information I…