aaaaaaand barf. If I were at that wedding I would never tell another story.

Oh, I believe you. I just feel like it’s further evidence of how messed up our attitudes and judicial systems are when it comes to sexual violence and/or violence against women. Either we let them plead to lesser charges and give them a lighter sentence OR we make the sentencing so light as to be negligible. Either…

Well, it CAN go the other way, but that’s just it. Most of the time, it doesn’t. :/ Source: spent my teen years going to different churches where my friends were congregants to see if any of them were a good fit. My school also had lots of abstinence-only speakers under the guise of health and wellness.

I’m really glad that was the case in your community, but the churches around me definitely push their Father/Daughter balls way more than... any kind of joint-parent ceremony or Son/Mother or whatever. That’s the predominate expression, which is why it gets the most amount of scrutiny.

Wait, so he was arrested for rape, charged with rape, prosecuted, and convicted OF RAPE, and... yeah. Less than a year.

I am now having fantasies of a row of pregnant women with arms linked to provide a cordon between protesters and women seeking services at PP. Like, tshirts that say PREGNANT, CAUTION, BABY INSIDE in big letters.

Right? Trump’s worse thanks to the wealth that enables him to fuck with more people. But he’s a rapist too, albeit unconvicted.

I doubt she will for a long time... Being willing to take the PR hit for ghosting on him out of a well publicized relationship is commentary enough for me though. I think we won’t hear about it until she’s ready to take THAT PR hit. Look at how mad people are at Madonna and willing to call her a liar.

Yeah, the divorce was long enough ago that I’m not willing to try to find supporting evidence, so that is literally just my own recollectin. I was just unemployed and reading a lot of celebrity gossip when it happened, and in addition to learning about the assault on Madonna, I feel like there were a lot of cryptic…

I see the merits of your point and I want to be nice enough to live that way. But at some point, you get fatigue. How many times do we have to have this conversation? With people who never change their minds, and the people in line behind them?

I think that at a certain point it’s actually less helpful to do so much…

I thought him being a violent alcoholic and super controlling was why Wright left him...

I struggled with that for a long time and still have to catch myself from sliding into bad patterns when things are stressful. But I wanted you to know that it can change. It’s a lot of sucky work and now I cry at pretty much any picture of a pet being rescued, but embarrassing cuteness triggered years aside, it was…

That was really kind of her to say, and really wonderful of you to share. It really struck a chord for me.

If anything, that’s really cool. Most people wouldn’t make the connection, so it probably allows her at least some measure of privacy. The fact that she’s donating under that name is just added classy.

He was too busy being a boy when they were trying to teach him how to be a person.

Exactly! If something is a dealbreaker, that’s the shit you clear up right away - why invest in a doomed thing? And hiding your dealbreakers? Well.

The problem with this woman’s life is that the men she is attracted to are not compatible with her. Why would a religious person want to date a die-hard atheist who scorns the religious? Her lack of dating success is entirely on her and in a country where over 80% identify as christian, she does NOT get to pretend…

I got a sample sachet of it once and it is serious business for your business.

Hey now! CONCEPTION. We’re inferior from conception. That’s why pregnant women got longer to decide to abort their supposedly female fetuses. We’re worthless!

Yes. Our dishwasher broke and I was washing dishes by hand for a month while we waited for the replacement. By the end of it, I was a) convinced that I’m a privileged little asshole and b) convinced that kitchens were not actually designed for their theoretical users.