What he said about the workforce, they'll use the same terrible argument when they go after birth control.  I could consider myself a victim of forced birth because I was born in the year that they finally legalized birth control to two poor alcoholic parents who never wanted children.  I grew up in poverty and chaos…

Its just the part of the country that I'm from.  Whenever fire season starts, I begin to look forward to fall.  

Im going to say it again.  I was born in 1965, the year that contraception was finally legalized.  I am the youngest of four children born to parents who never wanted children.  It sucked.  No child should have to grow up like that, but millions did.  If you're wondering why so many old people are screwed up.  We…

I come from a very troubled background. I was born the year that the Supreme Court legalized birth control in Griswold v. Connecticut. My mother never wanted children and experienced 7 pregnancies. She aborted the first herself. The second was stillborn after a beating from my father. The third had a clubfoot. The…

It's funny, I can go on and on about the joy of motherhood but because I was born before birth control to parents who never wanted children, I fully supported my children's decisions not to have children.  I really wanted grandkids but that's a terrible situation to put a child in.  So I settled for grandkitties.  I…

I think that there is truth to that idea that you forget the pain when you hold your child. I remember begging for pain relief (I had natural childbirth) I remember how much the episiotomy hurt. I remember times that breastfeeding was agonizing. And yet, looking back, it was nothing compared to the love that I felt…

As a survivor of abuse, I don't think children should ever feel the need to protect their mother.  If Maddox felt like he needed to protect his mother from his father then his father was doing something threatening!

I was in the navy back in the 80s and I've heard all kinds of talk and that isn't normal. 

Prayer answered!

I keep praying for things like this to happen.  The problem with conservatives is that they don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally.  So I wake up every day and pray to the Gods that these things will affect them.  

Good bosses get good workers. Bad bosses get bad workers. As the director, she is basically the boss of the set and her workplace is a chaotic mess and her workers don't seem to respect her.  Whinging about her employees to the media just makes her look weak and spiteful.  

My parents stayed together too. My father beat my mother and us kids. My mother beat us kids. My father molested us. My mother drank herself to death at 47. My oldest brother died of a drug overdose. My other brother told me he killed people when he was a meth addict. He’s a neoconfederate, wants civil war. My…

Im not sure that I agree. I want people, especially young women, to know what happened to girls like my mother back in the days when girls had no choice. They should be bloody coathangers and they should come with the threat of arrest and prison like my mother was threatened with by the doctor who treated her…

On a related note. I am disabled and coming up on 25 years since I took my loans which means they’ll be discharged. If our loans are discharged that money is treated as taxable income. For years they capitalized the interest when I couldn't pay my loans.  I'm up to $114k in student loan debt.  

You sound like a Russian propaganda spreader! Of course you choose to believe that the aggressor might be right and the victims must be lying.  What else have you got?

I feel that the real danger is the violence and abuse. Giving abusive people a way to practice and work out violent scenarios is very dangerous. They aren’t blowing off steam or getting it out of their system. They are practicing for real life actions. The only real way to get it out of your system is to never give in…

Maybe they have just suffered too much emotional and physical abuse in their relationships and want something safe. Maybe most men are just too much trouble and work to take care of. I personally gave up on men for a long time until I found a unicorn who respects women and pulls his own weight around the house. I will…

Far from it, my own mother was forced to marry her abuser when she was 15 and pregnant. Back then what happened to girls didn’t matter and they were often punished for the crimes committed against them. My father was 21 and my mother was 13 when they started “dating”. She was beaten on the day before her wedding to…

You act like predators are not choosing their victims. But they are. You are right about women throwing themselves at celebrities. That’s what makes these stories so awful! He probably had a great many willing partners to choose from but instead he chose to rape. And the predator was careful about choosing his prey.…

And as always, the implied cost of this toxic masculinity fantasy that they're protecting us from some vague threat is that we must tolerate the abuse, degradation and second class status that comes along with being the "protected" class because if we don't tolerate all of that they will stop pretending to protect us…