While the good people try to work out the goals of these terrorists, while they try to answer the questions, these women and girls are being beaten, battered, and raped, as well as sold into marriage with complete strangers. They are being forced to work as slaves for their kidnappers when all they wanted was an…

I hope they get jail for life. (Bein' agin the death penalty.)

There's a cop shop right where Broadway and 7th cross.

I actually haven't ever cared what anyone had to say about my childfree status. After a certain point of discussion, I used to just shrug and walk away. They don't get it, and I'm not going to unwrap a childhood of poverty and then abuse to say I spent a lot of time looking after my sisters and my mother, then I was…

See, he just makes me want to go "awww, let Mama make it better," as I straddle his lap, give a little wiggle, pinch his poochy little cheeks, pour the contents of an entire bottle of Cytotec into his gullet, and clamp his jaws shut until he's swallowed the lot. Then I'd smile and whisper, "See, that's better than me…

Funny—non-white people were forced to do it in *my* lifetime. It wasn't that long ago. Of course, nowadays people aren't asked to step off the sidewalk, or told to. They're just shot, and then it's called "Stand Your Ground." Is that hyperbole, too?

No. Racism does not work both ways. Racism only works from the powerful position to the powerless position. It will be decades, if not centuries, before whites in the western world are subject to racism. Until then the best they can hope for is big meanies calling them names, while other people are the recipients…

My parents, when I was little, spanked us with the hand, the belt, the yardstick, the ruler, or a hairbrush. That was what all parents did in the group I knew, just as we knew the one parent who went way beyond what our parents considered was the line.

Not a failed state per se, but a fragile state.

S. Sudan is actually its own nation after a referendum in 2011. Sudan's leadership was not happy about the results of the vote, but they let the former region go. In part the problem is religious—Sudan's north is primarily Muslim, while the part that is now S. Sudan is primarily Christian or African pagan. The…

Not just 10-year-old boys.

Anybody who does a good deed for an animal is OK by me.

Doncha just love it when female "personalities" go after other women over and over?

After the Heritage crapauds trashing a polite Muslim woman, I really needed this.

Yes, it did seem that we had to tend our own place before looking anywhere else. I didn't see comments about PoC being savages, or I would have landed on the commenters myself. Women are brutalized all over the world, including here—what's different, I think, is that Indian women aren't getting the help we get. We…

No one is saying this is a haven for women and girls. Can you also find pity in your heart for more women who are raped, murdered, and left hanging from trees like strange fruit? We are all sisters. The idea is to stop all rape.

While the wargamers duke it out below, or above . . .

Oh, that's deadly.

No one is saying not to teach men not to rape—that's at the TOP of the list, for cryin' out loud.

Perhaps I should have said first that I immediately discarded, for the most part, the purpose for which the pictures were made. I loathe purity balls, purity rings, and the purposes for which these things exist. My knee-jerk reaction was repulsion.