No one thought they were risking their life to live here. Sure, the crime in cities is usually higher, but my partner didn’t think she was risking her life to go fucking dance. She didn’t even know what ghostship was, she was meeting a friend who was taking her.

Please people don’t make jokes about this. This was a huge tragedy and all of us Oaklanders are taking it pretty hard. I did not lose anyone directly, only friends of friends, but, I will not soon forget the sheer terror that day of not knowing if any of my friends had gone to that party or not. I was calling people…

What the fuck are you talking about? I’m BLACK WOMAN, and I am talking about BLACK WOMEN.

Fuck him.

I can attach a pic, but I kinda like the mysterious nature of these posts.

Your kid is much, much more likely to be abused by a family member.

The only time I have seen Sherman disrespect a city was about a 150 years ago.

Your choice of verbs sucks.

This situation definitely makes the case that there shouldn’t be.

See Cheney suddenly discovering gay equality when it mattered to his own family.

I see someone else remembers her flip flop on maternity leave.

Who cares? So he’s a competent doctor, but he has some very dangerous and, frankly, STUPID ideas. I’m so tired that “oh but he’s a doctor” or “he went Ivy League.” That doesn’t make him smarter than anyone and when he talks about evolution being the LITERAL work of the devil and the big bang theory being a fairy tale,…

I’m going to sound like one of those feminists without a sense of humor in 3, 2, 1....

“I consider myself to be more respectful to women than the average guy”

I was violently sexually assaulted myself in early adolescence.

That man looks cold.. We should get him a blanket

Bigtime concur here. I ran a domestic violence intervention group for offenders in the Army. So much of the conversation on this topic is devoid of this kind of nuance. Well done.  

As someone who has done DV work in the past, this is an excellent and nuanced article.