That's awful, and there should be help for those men, too. I'm not tying to say that it doesn't happen- just that it doesn't happen nearly as often. That's just a statistical fact. 85% of domestic violence victims are women. (Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February…

An old Jezebel article is not a peer-reviewed study.

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No getting around the fact that women suffer domestic violence in far greater numbers than men do.

Did the person who approached him look like this?

I feel you. My kids said the Sixth Sense was boring, and that Paranormal Activity 3 was better.

Then why didn't her producer just say that, instead of claiming that singing off-key is a legitimate way to warm up?

That is valid.

I have no moral objections to this whatsoever. Any consenting adult should be free to suck a big ol' bag of dicks if they like- and I hope that's the real reason she chose to do it, not the singular bottle of liquor.

A bottle? As in one?

What. the. fuck.

Right? I wish!

I'm a Wyoming girl, born and raised, and she is not wrong. The southern part of that state is mind-numbingly boring to drive through. You know it's bad when the monotony of the landscape is only broken by the occasional rock formation and old prison.

I'm sure that they feel super welcome, too, after being publicly shamed.

I've been wanting to get my hands on some of this glassware forever. It's just too cool.

I can appreciate that you don't want your church to get an unfair rap, but this is what excommunication is meant to do, whether shunning is explicitly stated as a rule or not. You are publicly shamed. Some individual church members may shun you and some may not, but you are still "marked" as a person who could be…

I'm glad to hear that isn't the case for everyone. I know quite a few people (I'm in Idaho, if that makes a difference) whose families won't have anything to do with them.

Then you have been very fortunate. I have several Mormon friends whose families do not speak to them at all.

If they throw out the old playbook that says men are superior to women and women exist solely to pop out spirit babies, what does that leave them with? Not a whole hell of a lot. Sexism is so deeply entrenched in the very ideological fabric of most religions that it would be impossible to excise. If you take out all…