You’re not alone. I cringed when I saw that story and that image on the front page. Who thought that was a good idea?

I don’t think you have any evidence that this kid is being abused. It’s nice to look out for kids, and I would continue to be polite and aware, but I can’t see how anything even suggests abuse. Maybe the kid has a reason to be unhappy; being unhappy doesn’t suggest abuse. The fact that this kid doesn’t interact with…

Scrolled thru and saw ZERO baby pictures.

Can you find a style of head wrap that’s not associated with specific religions or ethnicities? How about an Old Hollywood scarf with winged sunglasses and red lipstick to match?

I work with Guardian ad Litem. Do you know what school he attends? If you do, you can call the school and ask to speak with the guidance counselor. The school won’t be allowed to give you information, but you can definitely tell them your concerns. Hopefully that will put them on alert to pay attention to the kid’s…

Well, my first bit of unsolicited advice would be to lie down before the ear piercing begins, so you have nowhere to go but up! Also, maybe put in some good dense earplugs, because I remember the sound of the piercing gun being quite... well, piercing!

She is gone!!!

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“Quaaludes happen to be the drug that kids, young people were using to party with,” Cosby said, “and there were times when I wanted to have them just in case.”

I believe the legal term is, Star Fucker.

Disentangling finances and cosigned agreements is much more difficult that having your finances already be that way. Most of my single friends are living with immense credit card debt and paying very high rent just to get by as young professionals. Someday they will probably make enough to get out from under it, but…

THIS. we have to make it through our days somehow.

I just had a discussion with a co-worker, regarding this video. What struck me, for different reasons than one might suspect, is the erroneous discussion on rape. A man might appear and drag you into the bushes. It’s typically a false assumption, but it’s instilled as a fear in girls.

Woody Allen and Roman Polanski are scum, no doubt. But Cosby was a serial rapist. So, yes, his conviction is kind of a big deal.

Yup. If I stayed with him and said “I love you,” then maybe I could just get over the fact that I was shaking and weeping the first time we had sex.

It’s really common for victims of sexual violence to continue sleeping with their offender as a way to normalize the experience in their minds and give themselves the perceived power or rationale that that they had agency in what happened to them. Like Amy, I was assaulted in my sleep but with someone I didn’t even…

I’ve seen her do this bit in person and it’s amazing. She points to the ladies in the audience and is like “we’ve all been graped, right ladies?” and you just hear every woman in the room like “yyyyyyup.” And then she let’s it sit for a second and says something to the dudes. I don’t remember what exactly she said,…

I had consensual sex with the guy who raped me. I didn’t want to admit to myself that the dude I thought was a great guy was a rapist. And I bought his weak excuse, because I wanted to believe he was a great guy. Women don’t want bad guys, we want good guys. We want good guys so much, we’ll try to convince ourselves…

I remember an advice columnist telling a letter writer to break up with her terrible, terrible boyfriend and then saying, “It’s easy for me to say. I don’t love him.”

I also felt really angry...It’s like a rage that has stayed with me. I don’t think you lose that. Nope, you sure don’t. I’ve been living with it for so many years.