It seems that it would fall within precedent to require vaccination of children full stop. We require seat belts and car seats and those do, on very rare occasions, arguably cause worse injury or death than not using them would have. People are not legally allowed to decide not to use them because, ‘they’re my kids…

Australia revoked a welfare payment to families with non-vaccinated children (medical reasons excepted) and saw something like 40,000 extra kids vaccinated. The value of the payments? A$2 a day per child. They literally put a price on their child’s life, and that price is...$2 a day.

I’ve dealt with this first hand. I just completed a film about an unsolved missing person’s case, that I’d been working on for six years. This person disappeared while on a class trip, and so I sought to interview his classmates. Some spoke with me, others didn’t, and I wondered why. I wondered, “What do they have to…

That's called being fired 😅

This, all of this. What I took away was how good he was at abusing these boys (and who knows how many others), how organized, how experienced and skillful. Michael Jackson was Pedophilia LLC, he was the IBM of abuse. He was a child abusing machine, from the love-bomb beginning to the “don’t cross me” end. Back in the…

This documentary and the subsequent hour with Oprah was the best thing I have ever seen on childhood sexual abuse. The clear articulation of grooming, the motivations of the boys’ refusing to speak the truth initially, the complicatedness of abuse when it feels like love, the life long effect it has on the victims and…

So, just to be clear: The occasion where the most qualified candidate in our nation’s history says she is not running again is the best possible occasion for you to mutter, “oh yeah? Well... you’d BETTER not...” Now you know how we feel about Bernie. Oh, wait.

Yeah of the two moms, Robson’s mom definitely angered me the most. Not to undercut the obvious warning signs that the Safechucks ignored, but some of the ones Joy Robson blew past were particularly shocking. Couple that with Joy pressuring Wade to testify AND the fact that she still seems to be hiding from the full…

This is what I thought as well. Jackson deliberately drove a wedge between those men and their mothers while promoting himself as their sole love object. That went on for years, and it doesn’t vanish overnight.

One of the most insidious things about sexual abuse is that the trauma inflicted on the victim causes behavior that people use to discredit them. For instance, the victim vehemently defending the abuser is actually one of the potential symptoms of abuse. It’s a result of the grooming and of the desperate need for the…

I literally created a Kinja account just to comment and say that this post is garbage.

I think that’s probably pretty common. Not only did the parents of both of these men utterly fail them, but enablers often feel like safer/easier targets for victims’ anger than the abusers. That anger is a lot less tied up in the guilt and shame they feel about their abuse. Plus, the dynamic between abused and…

Because she has experienced it and spent a good portion of her career interviewing researchers, advocates, victims and abusers. I have a lot of problems with Oprah, but this is one thing she is actually qualified to discuss and has done a lot of advocacy on.

This is all I have to add: I wrote HRC a letter the day after the Election thanking her for her years of service to the country and how emotional I was and blah, blah, blah. I was literally pouring my heart out. Nearly two years later I received a letter in return. How many politicians would take the time to reach out…

She’s been spending her time quietly raising tens of millions of dollars for Alliance for Youth Action, Arena, The Collective PAC, Color of Change, Demand Justice, Emerge America, Indivisible, iVote, Latino Victory, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Run for Something, Swing Left and Voto Latino.

What an utterly disappointing piece. Sorry you don’t like Hillary, Lauren Evans. But that isn’t the same as Hillary running an uninspiring campaign. I’m going to take a wild guess that a majority of the millions of women who marched in the cold the literal day after 45’s inauguration would take issue with your…

People come here for a break from misogyny.

Yikes. This is kind of heartbreaking. Woman wins popular vote, helping pave the way for a number of exciting female leaders, and gets shat on for existing by feminist blog. What would you like her to do, disappear completely? Sounds that way.

There are a few million girls in the US who know nothing other than that it is perfectly normal to have a woman winning a major party’s nomination and running for President.

What the fuck is this post?