Yeah, we do actual have issues labeling crimes against women as hate crimes.

“When people show you who they are...believe them.”

I suppose the only small consolation when someone attacks a religious or cultural group is that at least it is acknowledged as anti-semitism, racism, homophobia etc. Why when women are attacked is this acknowledgement erased? Is it time to burn down yet?

This is yet another entry in the ledger of people in this country murdered and sexually assaulted by people wielding guns. I despise and loathe the gun death cult in the U.S., and the twisting of the Second Amendment away from its original purpose to the Great Lie that it has anything to do with an individual right to…

Another term used is “intimate partner violence.” However, i find that somewhat inaccurate since she had already broken up with him and was no longer his partner.

All the ways that society tells us black women don’t matter, regardless of race or pedigree. Imagine if a young white woman physician in a trauma center in Chicago was gunned down. All the headlines would be about her as you don’t get a “worthier victim” than that. But even when it is our best and brightest, we are…

As Sgt. Shawn McGuire of the St. Louis County Police Department put it, somewhat terrifyingly, “We have a loose, armed gunman out there who’s already shot one person.”

It’s easier for people to see the person who the violence is perpetrated against as a full victim when it’s violence committed randomly, by a stranger, ‘wrong place, wrong time’, etc.*  When it’s committed by the partner or former partner of a person, it’s easier for people to let the questions come about the victim…

Wow. Banner fucking week for women. And it’s only Tuesday.

It is case of domestic violence, just because she didn’t give him ring back. I listened to this for couple hours on a news last night, it was horrifying. Also Mercy hospital just had training what to do in case of shooting. NRA can fucking dissapear by telling doctors to stay in their lane.

Evergreen statement in 2018.

I like “intimate partner violence” - it doesn’t have the “just a little lover’s quarrel!” connotations that domestic violence unfortunately has for some folks, is gender/orientation blind, and really captures the essential qualities (to me, at least).  Also does not require cohabitation, which (in my very limited…

Fuck, yesterday was an epically shitty day.

I feel like this says more about the way society tells people to think about domestic violence as somehow less serious, or something understandable.

Domestic violence is too mundane to make for flashy enough reporting. Which says volumes.

This is a very important take. A domestic abuser killed his ex-partner and also those who tried to respond. This isn’t a cop-killer who also killed “two female staffers.” And to say otherwise is once again dismissing the harm IPV and toxic masculinity has on women and our entire society. 

Thank you for covering this.

I will never forgive Kavanaugh for a lot of things. Tonight, specifically, I will never forgive him for being the reason I, a) had to learn all this (possibly outdated?) sex terminology, and b) had to then explain the meaning of “boofing” to my parents.

Nah. This confirms that men should not be in positions of authority because they’re too emotional, impulsive, and inept at handling conflicts and high stress situations.

This is all just confirming that we live in the darkest, stupidest timeline.