Somebody once called mine a "muffin". Confused me for days...

It most certainly is.

"Isn't she like 40?"

PESTER HIM!! THAT'S WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR!!! To serve the public!! I took an oath when I became a lawyer: we do here (not sure if the US lawyers do there). We are obliged to put our clients' interests ABOVE our own so OMG don't give it another thought! Anybody who got into this line of work (hopefully) understood…

Girl, that woman had so much raw courage it absolutely staggered me. And she was ENRAGED, rightfully so.

Oh no: I certainly understand the impulse to arm yourself. There may be a bit of a culture disconnect here, since I'm Canadian and the right to bear arms isn't enshrined in our constitution. It is still a pretty foreign concept to most of us.

OMG I was just going to say that! All of a sudden, it was like I was beamed back into Grade 9 homeroom. This must be what vietnam flashbacks are like.

Of course I wasn't entirely serious. I could certainly do without the asshats of the world but I don't mean to tar the entire gender with the same brush. Nor am I advocating becoming male hating vigilantes and looking for excuses to blow them all away. However, I do plead guilty to reacting to hostility when I'm…

Uh, no. I think you're taking my comment to the furthest possible extreme, which is not the point I was trying to make.

With some men, yes I agree. But not all men are like that. I've turned down requests for dates (because I won't even go out with a guy and I don't consider "Hey, wanna fuck?" uttered by a complete stranger to be a genuine request for sex). If a guy is simply on the make and being fake nice/kind, yes, that is the…

Oh I entirely agree with you there Ellenjane — they are symptoms. But the fact that they is so normalized — and apparently what some mothers aspire to for their daughters - is what bothers me.

Seriously, girl: consider the source. There are very few men who wouldn't have a go at a rip in a fur coat given the chance. How many women do you hear of that get arrested trying to have sex with park benches, farm animals, cars and knots in trees? If you were spared the attentions of swains of that ilk, I'd call…

I'm sorry, honey. But in a way, thank GOD. I thought I was the only one who felt this way.

I hear you. My male friends have one thing in common and it's the one quality that invariably and infallibly attracts me to a man: kindness. I'm certainly not in the market but if I were, I'd be looking for a man who was confident enough in his own masculinity that he didn't need to prove that he was "the man". My…

I like that show too. What I relate to most is the accurate way they show that the police and the prosecutors DO take the cases home with them: you can't help but do that. Sexual assault (being it "low end" or full on) is the gift that keeps on giving — it makes the victim feel worthless right down to her core and I…

I think part of the problem is also in how we socialize our daughters. I'm no prude but I just about swallow my tongue when I see what "fashion" is for 8 year olds: sexually suggestive t shirts, sweatpants that read "hot stuff" across the butt — and don't even get me started on these "beauty contests" for children. …

Well what else are we supposed to do with our rage? It's not like we'd actually go out and blow somebody away. What breaks my heart is the fact that having daydreams about this (and find me a woman who hasn't fantasized about it: I dare you, go ahead and try) is really the only thing we can do about it in the actual…

Yikes, pardon grammar. I get pretty worked up by this topic.

My most memorable case was of a mute quadriplegic woman who was horribly raped, in part because the rapist didn't think she'd be able to relate her experience. Luckily, she could — but the experience was devastating her (both the rape and the trial). He was convicted and during the investigation, we discovered that…

Of course there have been good men in my life and I treasure them. But my general experience (and I'm talking at least 3-4 times a day), I encounter assholes who feel that they are perfectly free to comment on my appearance. And they think they're being complimentary! My marriage was to a wonderfully enlightened…