I’m never going to call myself grateful for being the daughter of an alcoholic, because it’s its own brand of suck, but the end result has been a complete avoidance of alcohol for my whole life. And that I am grateful for. As a society, our dependence on it is kind of mind-blowing to me, and I know, KNOW that had I…

I am the same way. I think the ‘problem’ arose when I stopped doing those things. I took a week without drinking my normal, casual amount and it was fucking DIFFICULT. I didn’t realize how much I depended on those drinks.

If you can go without them, then there’s really no problem. If you find that you can’t, then there…

At the risk of doxxing myself, NW FL. I’m still a freshmeat (can’t transition for shit, it’s cool), but it’s been rad as hell. Combines my loves of feminism and aggro sports.

DERBY DERBY DERBY! I’ve actually drank less since skating, oddly enough.

Where do you play, if you don’t mind me asking? I love finding derby sisters on here.

I don’t drink, because addiction runs in my family, so growing up my extended family was basically one continuous DARE class. I’m not the most outgoing person, and I don’t like being around drunk people, which means I opt out of a LOT of social activities.

So many events in your 20s and 30s center around alcohol. Hell,…

I think it’s a great question—what makes a social drinker and what makes an alcoholic? I’ve had about 3-4 drinks a day for many years, one at lunch, one at dinner and one or two in the evening before bed. I never get drunk, I never black out, I’m never hung over. I also don’t drink on vacation or business trips. I’m…

It’s finally been released and noted downthread, but we’re all in the grays.Can you bump it pls?

In the wake of the discovery that the judge who handed down this sentence – like Brock Turner as well as previous similarly situated defendants before him in similar cases (yes, and also blech) - was a son of Stanford who, like Brock’s father, also found even a six-month sentence for the crimes of which the defendant…

This woman expressed herself so well in this statement, but it was heartbreaking.

Yes, yes it is :)

She don’t text her friends and say, I gotta get laid tonight

She don’t throw any t-shirt on and walk to a bar

One reason the EU “right to be forgotten” rule is so pernicious. There are certain things you’re not entitled to hide and a rape conviction is one of them.

Or just let him swim in the Rio olympics but make him wear gear that keeps his mouth open so he ingests all of the toxic river water and develops a case of diarrheal illness so severe that he spends the rest of his life on the toilet far away from the rest of humanity.

So I agree that it’s bullshit to have mugshots shown for some people and not for others. But for rape, I kind of wish all of the photos were of the smiling, yearbook type. There’s this perception that rapists are different - not your neighbor or your boyfriend or your brother. But they are. And the more we see that a…

Y’know, I might catch some heat for this, but I kinda wonder if we aren’t being too hard on this guy. I think instead of putting him in jail, we should just let him keep swimming.

The one consolation about this smiley face picture being used is that it will be much easier for women to identify him in public in the future. Memorize that evil smile, let’s all memorize it.

There is something that makes him seem particularly sociopathic to have that smiling photo above the details horrible crime he committed. The lack of empathy lurking behind the surface of a happy, seemingly all american, (white) boy makes it somehow seem even more unexpected and horrifying that he did it.

White privilege isn’t a thing at all. Naaaaaaaawwwwwwwww. Couldn’t be. Just a total coincidence.