This is your little pony on drugs.

Therapy and self-defense classes are expensive. Maybe she can purchase those things with the money she has been given.

I'm in the same boat. I'm 26, rather self-assured for the most part, but someone being that cruel, no matter who is voicing it, would tear at my self esteem. I don't exist outside of other people, and part of caring about other people is also caring about their opinion.

You use the word power, but I do not think you know what it means.

Thank you! You bring up a really good point that I think needs to be shouted from the damn rooftops.

People are often not passive because of a selfish choice to be so - what does one gain from being passive? They are passive through years of systematic abuse, from the institution(s), friends, family, and others.

Is thirty the magical age when we stop giving a shit what people think?

focusing on the wrong thing is still ridiculous and unnecessary.

The point of this article, and I think this situation, is not to run about with our hands in the air trying to find someone to blame. It's about trying to find out why this is not a.) an isolated event, but a rather common one and b.) why this happens, and quite possibly is encouraged, in this culture.

Man, you really hate that people are giving her money, don't you?

Because none of us exist without one another, and our actions in our personal lives are part of the grander narrative of our culture.

It takes a village.

The empowerment that comes with being a police officer is much different than a bus monitor, and dealing with someone who is physically attacking you, or someone else, means that you can act in a different way than someone who is verbally abusing you.

Silencing comes in many forms, and just because you're an adult it doesn't suddenly grant you a voice.

This is not at all like an on duty cop being mugged by an unarmed attacker.

Entitlement is entitlement no matter how you swing it, so sure. Feel entitled.

Annoyed cat is annoyed.

You're entirely right.

Man, I was going to say something to the effect of shut up and get out, but reading your response closely, it kind of sounds like that body-fat problem you have with others is really a reflection of your own low self esteem, and I can't hate on you for hating on others when you hate yourself.

To the people here who are victim-blaming Karen Klein, let me tell you to shut up: