I was molested repeatedly by my father around the age of 12. I didn’t confide in any one until years later but, I still felt so much shame and guilt. I can attest to the weird complicated feelings that comes with being molested by the person who is supposed to protect you. I didn’t want to put myself or baby sister in…

Right?!

You know what, it’s quite plausible that she’s devastated at the thought of not having her dad in her life

Lawmaker #1: Ok, any more suggestions on the rape laws?

May I add the word “REPEATEDLY” to your last sentence. This is so far beyond fucked up, that I actually said out loud, at work, “This is really fucked up.”

Okay...I was scrolling and scrolling thinking maybe I was the only one who saw that. Like, how is THAT the loophole? Really?

This poor, poor little girl. You know what, it’s quite plausible that she’s devastated at the thought of not having her dad in her life - abuse within families is as complicated as it is horrific, and it could not be clearer that the adults in her life are encouraging her feelings of loss and guilt, rather than those…

“...there’s a loophole for those arrested for incest involving someone under 12 years old.”
*record scratch* Say what now?

He is not a monster, just a man that really screwed up and has been paying in many ways.”

At the least she still has to live with a mother that thinks her rapist is not such a bad guy and deserves forgiveness.

From what you describe to his almost joyful embrace of the Church’s anti-homosexuality stance, to being sorta-kinda ok with GWB’s death penalty stance while condemning abortion as pure evil, Dolan is a world-class cocksneeze. I hope he and Trump choke each other unconscious.

Maybe someone can also roast that fucker Dolan, too. He is no better, Mr. I- will-spend-ungodly-(in all senses of the word) amounts-of-money-to-block-legislation-that-would-extend-the-statute-of-limitations-for-sex-abuse-survivors. NY has a surprisingly short SOL of just 5 years for both criminal and civil cases, and…

I saw someone refer to Clinton’s outfit as a ‘white Lady Gandalf pantsuit. Now I want to make ‘#ladygandalfpantsuit’ a thing.

“This violence is trying to teach us a lesson, it wants to put us back in a traditional role into which we don’t fit any more,” says Cantabria. “It’s not a specific blow by a specific man against one woman in particular, it’s a message to all women to return to our stereotypical roles.”

That poor poor child.

And why in the hell would her family get death threats because their daughter was raped so hard she died?! WTF world do we live in that that’s something to be expected?!

I really wish we all just started collectively flipping the fuck out when a man did something like this instead of feeling pressured to “remain calm.” I hate that so many cultures have brainwashed women to not make “big deals” out of shit like this.

Is there someone actually manually checking on voter signatures in Florida?

Exactly. At 18 I was still doing a nice cursive legible Iwona Burgunda. At 22 it was more of a Iwooaabggaaaa. At 30, I’m just all:

They have to be. It’s the only way they can stay in power.

...if the signatures on their vote-by-mail forms don’t match the ones on their voter registration.