Better not crosspost this to kotaku

So before the slobbering hoard of Gamergate misogytrolls show up, I just want to say....

“Every damn time”? It’s one of the best films I have ever seen, but I can’t imagine watching it again. So. Fucking. Painful.

...beets, did you manage to get every mp writer mad at you? what a feat!! please, keep it up, my popcorn has just dinged in the microwave.

I am so sorry you’re going through this. My BFF is in a similar boat: been together 15-ish years, two kids they adore and parent well, but they aren’t really partners and he is bringing her down in various ways (financially and emotionally). Her perspective is that she’s still a young woman (37) and has a lot of life…

Same here, with my now ex. Marriage was an endpoint, and that made it so, so lonely.

Yep. And there would be more scholarships for people who wanted to study if you got rid of sports and stopped giving rapists free educations.

They’re upthread.

You got a troll, love. Dismiss or flag ‘em.

First I’m so sorry that happened to you. It’s really great to hear you were able to have this conversation with your boyfriend. And It is super satisfying when you know you’ve helped contribute to changing their perspective. It also a little frightening to me too though because it highlights how pervasive this…

Men rape because they can and get away with it time and time again. What also sickening these are our sons abusing us.

Yup. This was going to be my assertion.

Abuse doesn’t have to be physical. I told my story in a thread above this one, and until THE incident, most of the creep factor from my adopted dad came from micro-aggressions, and the hyper puritanical bullshit from my church. Still it was enough to give me a super duper dose of anxiety, shame and guilt.

You were…

When I was 4 or 5 a neighbor boy, around the age of 8, decided to play “husband/wife” with me. According to him we were in jail and couldn’t get out, but because we were married we would have sex to pass the time (it came out later this little boy was being molested by his moms boyfriends). Our clothes stayed on, but…

My mother’s only comment was, “What were you doing out that late, anyway?” and then she proceeded to call everyone in my family, thereby taking away my choice as to whom I would tell and when. Then my siblings told everyone they knew, and so on, and so on... Thanks, Mom.

Jesus, that is so terrible, and I am sorry it happened to you. I was so lucky — my mother believed me immediately when I told her about my sexual assault (a family “friend”). The only negating assholes I’ve had to deal with are some of the guys I’ve dated. Please take care of yourself.

I was sexually abused as a young child—too young to remember much of people’s reactions. My mom found out, and put a stop to it immediately, at great cost to herself. (She’s an amazing person, and I honestly don’t know what I would do without her.) But I do remember feeling afterward like there was this horrible thing…

Really?

When we were children my sister told my mother that our uncle was molesting her. My mother’s response was that my sister should stop walking around in a towel after she showers. That’s why I never told my mother he was doing the same to me too.

I was molested by my step-father when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. I say or because the trauma made me block memories & as a result I have a very very spotty memory of my youth. To me, he was just my Dad. He had raised me since I was 3 years old. No one in my family knows about this and when my mom…