Tranquilizer darts do NOT work instantly. That’s simply untrue, and one of the reasons it was ruled out.

What in the actual fuck is wrong with you?

Yep. It’s gross that animals matter more than human beings to a lot of people in this society.

Yeah. I can’t imagine what would have made him draw the conclusion not to report after all.

I’m sorry; I meant that I didn’t know what he did was illegal. But your experience was heartbreaking to read. I’m so sorry that happened to you. I’m sorry you weren’t believed.

#TeamYou on this one. Their products were garbage but back when I was working at a birth center, I figured the whole “natural” connection would be enough for them to want to donate a couple of products to the annual auction we host to help provide breastfeeding support services to low-income families. They responded…

Jessica Alba is our generation’s Gwyneth.

Get the fuck out. For real?

I’ve thought about it, but given that this was 15 years ago, none of the people are the same. I’m not sure what it would do.

I do. Thank you. I have really great friends, but there are some times it still hurts not to have that “family” that everyone always talks about being so great or necessary. I’m not sure I’ll ever get over being so unloved during those critical years. It’s gotten more difficult to deal with now, 15 years later,…

*consumption of alcohol, damn autocorrect

No; I was not. It took several more “incidents.” But thank you.

I am a victim and I’m someone who has done an awful lot of anti-rape advocacy. I’ve spoken to state legislatures and made presentations at college campuses. And I think equating pornography to rape and people who defend pornography as rape apologists is fucking bullshit. No pearls being clutched here, fuck you very…

Exactly. It’s like using Natalee Holloway’s mom to speak out against international trips for high school seniors or the consumption of alcoholism. She is another intelligent, outspoken woman who has made advocacy her passion, and she isn’t wrong for criticizing how Dutch authorities handled her daughter’s case. It’s…

Right, but her background doesn’t involve devoted membership to an organized religion with an established, overly zealous agenda against knives and everything knives stand for.

I disagree that it’s not harmful to or ultimately harming others. Smart herself talked about how the education she received as part of her Mormon upbringing—specifically, the “chewed gum” analogy about virginal purity—amplified the anguish surrounding her abduction. This seems a stark extension of that deeply…

They are. And the sad reality is that most people DON’T want abuse stories to be true. I was abused all of my childhood by my parents. They hit me enough to get out their anger and frustration, but without leaving any marks—until I was 16, and my mom split my lip AND gave me a black eye. Other than possessing a smart…

Actually, most of the time, if a spouse gets off for killing another, it tends to be the husband. Women are *rarely* acquitted for the murder of their husbands. I think it was argued in one of Ann Rule’s books that especially if a woman goes for the “abused woman” defense, she is even less likely to be successful in…

This. We live in a world where a rich white man who also happens to be president of the United States can literally shoot another man in the back and yet not face a single punishment for doing so, while women who have been systematically abused since birth are forced to serve out the rest of their natural lives for…

Yes and no. On the one hand, there’s a fair amount of material out there, regarding the cynical nature of cashing in on food by labeling it “super.” In actuality, superfoods are basically PR stunts to bring a lot of attention to the latest delectable dishy darling. Adding insult to injury, superfoods almost…