Meanwhile, after I was assaulted by a complete stranger I discovered that once an assaulter is convicted, it’s SOP for the state to take out a restraining order against them on behalf of their victim — who is named on the order, which the assaulter has to sign. So they get to see the name of the otherwise anonymous vic…

Too many of those in power would be upset if they couldn’t continue to harass their own victims. There are multiple studies showing cops are more likely to be domestic abusers than your average joe, but I can’t say that I’ve seen similar studies for judges and attorneys.

“what’s the argument against having a restraining order forever?”

What’s even crazier is that different states have different definitions as to what a “permanent” protection order is. For instance, in Montana, a “permanent” protection order has to be renewed annually. Every year, a survivor of domestic violence has to re-petition the court for a “permanent” protection order.…

I don’t know why I expect the government to take a common sense approach on matters such as these..but...what’s the argument against having a restraining order forever? Because we feel sorry for the stalker? I don’t get it. I’m willing to be enlightened.

What’s amazing to me is how hesitant judges seem to be to issue and renew them. 

Oh fine you SJW libtard.  First you want to take my freedom of speech, then you want to take my guns and now you want to take away my right to murder!!!  This isn’t what the founding fathers intended!!! :)

A bold stance in Trump’s America.

I used to volunteer at a courthouse’s restraining-order office. There is an insane amount of paperwork to fill out, and if you don’t get there by a certain time, you have to come back the next business day, by which point you could be dead.

I don’t want to be controversial, but I’m against murder.

I think it falsely implies her murder only matters because she once dated Carey.

And somehow manage to make at least 80% incredibly creepy and sexist as well. I don’t think I was the only person hoping introducing Amy and Bernadette would make TBBT less of a sausage-fest. Silly me.

This is exactly my problem with Big Bang Theory. A nerd joke would be, you know, some reference to a stupid event in X-Men’s ridiculously snarled-up continuity. A Big Bang Theory joke is “Look, X-Men is a COMIC BOOK, and people READ it! Tee hee! Nerds!” It doesn’t feel like they know anything about their own jokes,…

I mean, did they even get to the part in the series about Sextillion?

Haha - no worries - as soon as they mentioned going to a dragon planet I was like, guess I’ll find out what a dragon dick looks like!

Woops!

“...or the dragon sucking itself off.”

This.
That lazy, pandering, last-minute-Google-search writing by people who think they might remember what a nerd/geek is from high school. “Nerds still like Star Trek, right? Hey... lets throw that into a sentence. They’ll eat that shit up.”

What bugs me about TBBT is that it has always, consistently, made the laziest possible jokes about every random nerdy/science/geeky thing they talk about. Which is fine in some situations.... making jokes about how you’re always trying to trade Sheep for Wood in Catan probably works just fine for the huge chunk of…