The whole point of hate crime legislation from the perspective of prosecution and penalty is that it creates an aggravating circumstance that takes something that would already be a crime and turns it into something that has to be treated more severely. For minor offenses, this makes sense. It’s not that difficult to…

Women are mutilated by their partners on such a regular basis that it barely makes the news. In my area alone in the last 2 years a woman’s husband cut her breasts off and a woman who went to my high school had acid thrown in her face by her bf. The acid thrower got a whopping 2 years in prison.

That’s kind of the point, though. He really only cares about his popularity and the adulation that comes with it. So if maintaining it requires a shift in ideology, even on something like abortion, he’ll do it.

What do you call two people who use the rhythm method?

I have a four-year-old daughter, and I’m honestly terrified of her getting older because of this, because of misogyny, because of everything.

Meanwhile, Trump asks why Hillary Clinton didn’t defend women from Trump: “for 30 years she’s been a Senator or something, and in all that time she didn’t do anything about me sexually assaulting women. I mean, if you want sexual assault to stop, why don’t you make it illegal?”

A friend of mine invited to come over to her house after school one day, I must have been 9 or 10 at the time. The bus stop was somewhat far from her house and we had had to walk up a big hill through the neighborhood. On our way up the hill, we passed a man standing next to his truck who we had never seen before. I…

This is relatively mild, yet creepy in a subtle way. If you want to be frightened you should probably move on to another story.

This is very short but it’s the creepiest thing that’s ever happened to me. Creepier by far than any of the “ghostly” or unexplained experiences that I’ve had.

When I was very little, my mother would often leave me and my siblings in the car while she ran errands. It was a simpler time, I guess.

One of these times,…

Another true story, not having to do with sleep paralysis.

First, I am blind as a bat and have been since I was very young.

My mom was diagnosed with cancer when I was 12. While my mom finished a round of chemo, my parents packed the six of us kids off to spend the summer with my aunt and uncle in the middle-of-nowhere…

So I don’t have a story to share unfortunately. But I read a creepy story on Reddit a while back that really stuck with me. It’s about a man who may have called himself: