This. Also, from the time Binti Jua became a mother, she had been trained by zookeepers to hand them her child for medical care. When she carried the young boy to safety, the keepers believed she was exhibiting the results of her training; not instinct.

Even if it’s true he was taking care of the boy, we can’t read his mind. He’s a wild animal and it could have turned ugly in an instant. We just don’t know and all these “what ifs” aren’t helping anyone.

Keep seeing this “The gorilla was being kind!” reaction.. Are people just not seeing the part where he grabbed the child by the foot and dragged him through the water repeatedly?

I am 125% against this on principle, but did find myself trying to remember what I was like at 24, and if 13 would have seemed *quite* so insane to me then (I’m much, much older than 24 now). Then I thought of my brother, who is a decade younger than me, and it all fell into place. There’s no way 13 would have seemed…

My ex’s 17 year old “babysitter” took his virginity when he was 12. When he told me this, I asked if he ever got counseling for being molested and he acted like what happened to him was completely normal. Fast forward to nearly 13 years later and he still doesn’t think he was raped/taken advantage of. As a friend (&…

“jewish geography”

I got into a heated argument yesterday about situations like these. I was telling a male acquaintance about an idiot I dated who said if his 15 year old daughter was dating a man in his 30s he’d try to give the guy a chance because he’s “open minded” (that was the last time I saw that dude, obvs). That led male…

Thank you. Not “relationship,” either. Predatory behavior and grooming. And fuck that fucking family.

Not “sex.”

I’m guessing nah. If he apologized without a public backlash, then perhaps.

“This is part of the tragedy,” Abdel-Samee said. “May god give her the strength to overcome the passing of her daughter but this is another issue.

How can you bring someone into the fold if you’re dismissing their problems wholesale based on their identity?

Ever think that maybe calling people IN instead of OUT, and trying to validate the experiences of the poor (even if they are white, male, cis, het) might yield better results?

No one can fight to give people rights they already have. Other people getting the same rights you have does not mean you no longer have them. It cannot be said too much that loss of privilege does not equal loss of rights.

Ah, no. You're thinking of rightwingers who believe poor means you deserve to be punished. Who think women and minorities should shut up and stop demanding to be treated as people. I get the anger coming from Trump supporters, I really do. But they choose to focus their anger on the wrong targets. Its easier to blame…

Listen, people who are cis white men can be disadvantaged, e.g. economically disadvantaged, disadvantaged by class, discrimination against people who are not able-bodied or who are not mentally well, discriminated against if their are LGBTQ etc., however they are not disadvantaged on the basis of either their race or…

That can be hard to do when the person you’re trying to “call in” is resentful that the information is coming from someone who is not a white male. So it’s not on me, a Black woman who will be at best condescended to or ignored, or at worst called racial slurs and violently threatened. It’s on some white guy who can…

“The feminist staples of abortion, reproductive rights and equal pay continue to motivate female voters. But men are voting differently than women because of their dissatisfaction with job and wage competition from illegal immigrants”

Why now that you mention it, I could give a flying fuck about persecuted American Christians.

Oh I like that. Or if Jo Jo had a cat, she could have been like “get my cat out of a tree, like firemen do.” And watching a bunch of full grown men trying to coax an angry cat from a tree would be some good fucking TV.