Oh, another white girls titties. How illuminating. I get the idea behind it but I feel like I’m being constantly pelted with pink areola. Damn tumblr kids, get off my lawn!

I’m a common folk and I’ve had laser removal. It wasn’t as painful as I expected, didn’t cost any more than the tattoo did to begin with per session and is completely gone after four sessions. It’s all about the skills of the technician. I would recommend at least a couple sessions of laser to lighten before…

Whatever is cheapest. I don’t even want a funeral. I find them weird. The idea of people mourning over my corpse is super gross to me. I'm not gonna know or care what happens so whatever costs the least is what I want.

“You’re built like me”. Still stings and I'm fighting genetics to avoid looking like a hobbit.

Yep I thought it was the lamest username I had ever heard of so I usurped it.

Last night I roasted a rack of lamb for my partner with blanched fresh green beans with garlic butter and almonds and mashed potato made with butter and cream cheese. For myself, I had a hulking slice of spanakopita I threw together with feta and some mitzritha I had leftover in the fridge with a rocket salad on the…

People get crap on their hands, they wash their hands. People get crap on gloves, they are less likely to care or notice. Gloves skeeve me out.

I’m shaking with anger reading your story. We deserve so much better than this.

Thank you.

That is truly inspiring. The world is a better place with you in it.

I'm so sorry. Hearing that makes me feel sick. Do these people not realise they owe their entire existence to women? I can't understand how someone could say something so cruel to another human.

I will always be mad about the ponytail thing. He is such a shitty person.

Yeah I was fifteen and terrified so no. A rape kit wasn't even offered and I didn't even know they existed at the time.

Yes! An Aunty Helen comeback I can get behind!

As an NZ victim of rape, I am so grateful for those women for standing up and making noise about it. I don't think I could be that strong in the face of complete disinterest by the speaker.

I have no idea. New Zealand gets a lot right as a whole. This is one area we fail completely in. There's so much stigma and active silencing of victims that seems to make any positive change impossible. Same goes for domestic violence. It's seen as a personal problem. What happens behind closed doors stays there etc.

Yep. As far as I know, none of the boys involved ever had any legal repurcussions. It’s infuriating. The handling of abuse in New Zealand is truly my country's shame.

Thank you. It really shaped how I viewed my home country. We ended up leaving the country completely a few months later and I’ve only been back two times in eight years. My hometown has too many bad memories.

I have the opposite problem. I can afford to live alone. My single mother with two teenagers cannot. Her having to rely on me financially causes huge stresses on my relationship with my partner. I had to put my foot down and find an apartment alone and she is relying on the help of friends and whatever money I can…

Real talk: NZ has a serious problem with rape and sexual assault. It’s deeply entrenched and I have no clue on what to do about it because it can’t even be spoken about without being silenced, like the women mentioned here.