And a lot of parents coerce their teen or preteen daughter into marrying her rapist, especially where religion has a deep hold.

Just because other players (and probably DSP himself) have been subject to worse—the vitriol from Boston “fans” after Joel Ward’s game 7 overtime goal in 2012 comes to mind or people throwing bananas at Wayne Simmonds—doesn’t make it okay to imply that he should be playing basketball and not hockey. Is it the worst…

I don’t want to hear “why didn’t she report it when it happened” ever again.

In the book, Sue Snell asks Tommy to take Carrie to the prom as a sort of apology for all the bullying Carrie had endured. And Tommy agrees for the same reason. It was really Chris and Billy’s idea to dump blood on her. (Seriously, read the book; the movie sucks.)

On the one hand, that does sound really freaking condescending. On the other, at least nobody is saying (in public anyway) that we women are whiny bitches who “can’t take a joke.”

If it weren’t for the fact that it might endanger people who can’t get vaccinations, I’d encourage evangelicals to trust that their god will keep them well. But I really don’t want to see another pandemic.

Wouldn’t it be easier to create a list of things he DOES understand?

I live in the U.S. They are pretty much irredeemable.

I wanted to stand up and cheer when I saw Duckworth’s tweets. Way to go, Senator!

No, no, no, no. They’d love if he killed and ate a baby, especially if it were a black baby. And they wouldn’t care if he abused a puppy.

If Democrats not clapping like trained seals for Dirty Donnie’s verbal vomit is “treason,” can you say the same about that idiot Republican Congressman who shouted “You lie!” when Obama was giving his State of the Union?

I wouldn’t put it past him. But then I wouldn’t put anything petty, mean, or small-minded past Dirty Donnie.

In the interim; at the very least we can shame the hell out of republicans.

I don’t know if he’ll lie deliberately because he’s gotten away with it for years and years or if he’ll lie accidentally because he’s so freaking delusional he has no idea what the truth is anymore.

That’s my understanding too. She was shamed for being a black woman with nipples and he went unscathed for tearing off her costume and revealing that nipple.

So many abusers were, themselves, victims of abuse. Not that it condones what they did. But we need to find a way to break the cycle of sexual abuse, especially the abuse of children.I hope your ex got the help he needed. And I hope you did too.

That depends where you live. If you live in NYC, the DC area, or the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, there’s no way on earth $12 an hour is livable. And I’ve heard Seattle is not exactly an inexpensive place to live either. So unless you want to have enough roommates to build a hockey team, there’s no way…

I am not so optimistic. I fear that if anything, it will be worse, as we try to forcefully push our way back to dominance because American exceptionalism, ya know. And we have the king of all dick-measurers in the White House making sure that anyone who isn’t rich, white, straight, or male gets treated like shit.

I’ve been saying for years that the GOP wants a return to the Gilded Age. Heck, this is practically feudalism with technology added.

I’ve been to Caps practices to get stuff signed—usually a one-off here and there, like a jersey or a figure—and I am appalled when people shove stacks of stuff at players that you know they’re going to sell. I mean, multiples of the same photograph? Come on.