Thanks for giving me the background in your life - I see where you're coming from now and how that's definitely going to color how you approach Dunham's narrative. I was victimized under semi-similar circumstances, so I see her story much differently than you do, but I get what you mean, now.

And that's you, and this is me, and that is her. I guess that's all I'm trying to get at, man - you had really shitty assault experiences too. Why are you judging hers? How does that help anyone? Or does anything about rape? You don't need to apologize to me; I've owned and dealt with my shit and it is what it is. I…

Sigh. That's enough internet for you today, Skippy. This is going to be, "unless you've been put into that kind of vulnerable and fearful spot," it's quite possibly impossible to understand, so you're going to go a LOT farther in life if you just do yourself a favor, shut the fuck up, and listen to what women WHO HAVE…

"Least rapey epoch" is not an award I really want to put on our humanity's trophy shelf.

And people in my mostly white, very small town wonder why I distrust cops.

No shit. The hands in the pockets of all three of them says it all.

*GASP* OMG *GASP* OMG OMG *GASP* OMGOMGOMG

I didn't think Times readers would take the opening sentence literally because I so often write arch, provocative ledes that are then undercut or mitigated by the paragraphs that follow.

I'm really starting to think that you're paying people to commit these depraved acts for the sheer insanity of the headlines you get to write in the aftermath.

BY THE SHEER POWER OF MY GOOGLE FU.

This is my dramatic reinterpretation of Mufasa finding out what happened after Simba left home to travel the world, shunning his royal past.

Oof, history was a hard subject for you, wasn't it?

Oh, if wishing made it so...

To be fair, Jesus was asking for it. Just look at the way he's dressed.

You are truly the scholar and epic genius of our time.

You just gave voice to the biggest dream of my life.

Haha, yeah - I mean, I've been a case study for a major/very well known teaching hospital in LA, so my illness is a matter of public record, and I work in entertainment, so the story of how I landed in the ER with a strangulated hernia and half a necrotic intestine after being forced to stay on set for 12 hours got…

So does this mean that this is or isn't the time to tell you I was actually approached by the producers to feature my wonderfully horrifying story? (I could not say no fast enough)

Here's the thing about Fark: despite my obvious lack of penis, I never feel unsafe there. It's absolutely disgusting that I can't say the same for a women-centric site, and to force the writers to moderate every hateful comment STILL shows a lack of care staggering even to me (and I work in entertainment!).

They are firing rubber bullets and tear gas into peaceful neighborhoods. OH YEAH, IT'S THE PROTESTORS THAT AREN'T PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLING ANYMORE. SURE.