Medical care providers.... yeah about that. There was an article today in the LATimes asking, “Is Medicine Nexr?” and I hoped it was about patients and providers, but it wasn’t.

Same thing happened maybe two years ago I think in an Essence magazine article. They reported that the maintenance men & landlords would demand sex for repairs. I’m going to say demand...rape instead because that what it was. Those perverts would single out mostly single women & single moms who were the most…

Why, it’s almost as though women are harassed, catcalled, assaulted, discriminated against, intimidated, raped, and murdered in every area of life, every day, everywhere in the world!

OK, here’s a little ditty from my own life about one of my landlords/property owners: when I was 30, I moved into a “family’s man’s” rental property in Chicago. He lived a few miles away in Lincoln Park with his family. The man constantly asked me about my “boyfriends” though I didn’t have any at the time. I was just…

I have experienced some degree of this at literally all but one apartment I have ever lived in during my adult life, including the one I live in now. Some have been creepy but unlikely to turn violent (e.g. my current landlord giving me presents and sending me flowers and trying to kiss/hug me) and some have been…

Girl. My knuckles are in my eye sockets! My story happened likely while you were still a kid ( which is probably the only reason bad didn’t go to worse).

off topic, but no one in this thread can spell “indiscretions”

I just came here to say that anyone- even Nancy- will be missing out if they do not see this movie. It is brilliant.

Because Allison Janney is really fucking amazing in it? It also reveals a lot about how America really is and domestic abuse is handed down generationally. On top of all of that it’s darkly funny.

Still bitter there hasn’t been an Elvis Stojko or Brian Orser biopic? He will always be the lesser Brian.

Tonya was definitely a victim of sexist double standards long before the attack. She was rough around the edges, and she was downgraded for it as opposed to being ranked on her sport, but NFL players can do drugs, commit domestic abuse, get physically violent, and mouth off publicly and no one cares.

Kerrigan was always really awful. She was never gracious and, while a great skater, was bad with PR. Not justifying anything that happened to her, but she was pretty hate-able. She also married her much older agent who left his wife for her (which always seemed like a possible abuse situation to me). I say this as a…

“The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing “beloved” individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.”

It’s not unusual for the top four or five comments to be from this tiresome pack of dudes who seem to think their banal opinions are absolutely indispensable.

And, as ever, the top two comments are from men who comment early and on absolutely everything.

It sounds like a line the cops fed him, honestly. Like he couldn’t verbalize his thought process so they just started going down their personal list of Things That Make Me Want To Hit A Woman.

I don’t know about social class, but I do think a lot of women over a certain age are having a problem simply because in their generation, it was just how it was. And if something happened, they didn’t and wouldn’t have even thought about saying anything, because society wouldn’t have cared if it did. Or blamed them.…

To the dipshit in the grays who I won’t quote (because they’re a fucking dipshit): ever been to an Irish funeral? Or wedding? Or any goddamned function you can think of?

Fuck her. Bye.