Yes! Yes! Yes! Drives me up the wall. I’m cool with sharing the road, PROVIDED WE ALL OBEY THE SAME RULES.

Truth.

As a DC pedestrian, I’m now more fearful of cyclists than drivers...it’s a mess.

Okay but also bike lanes should be banned in general because cyclists should be banned because they never FUCKING FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE GODDAMN ROAD YOU CANNOT RUN A FUCKING STOP SIGN I AM IN A GIANT METAL TWO TON CYCLIST KILLING MACHINE YOU GODDAMN MORONS

This is very near me. Before people jump to say, “Oh my god, MORE religious liberty nonsense?” this is actually quite a different situation. This area is almost always a mess; DC traffic is already a nightmare, but we have a lovely convention center into which tens of thousands of people pour into weekly on top of it.

Umm...so staged. His girlfriend is marginally a better actor than he is.

The kid got beaned by the can, but the Unwritten Rules of Baseball say he better look out for the pitcher.

I wanted to get mad, but you made me audibly groan - the sure sign of a quality pun.

That Canadian beer will hit you a lot harder than you think.

The baby will probably have a bruise on their head, but it could have been much worse. Thank God the fans were only throwing light beer cans.

Still trash.

My mom was PISSED. I even have pictures of the bunnies and me.

When your country decides to actually provide decent paid maternity leave, then perhaps we’ll talk. Till then....nope. You don’t get to whine about this.

“Oh, no, sweetie,” my friend said. “No, no, no. The babysitter is supposed to stay outside with the baby and bring her to you in the breastfeeding room. This is a day for people to get away from kids.”

Oh for fuck’s sake. The attitude that you can’t go to someplace without your kid because it’s “professional” and that you need to have a babysitter or child-keeper at all times is anti-feminist to the core and supports notions that the only people who “deserve” to reproduce are the affluent.

You’re to keep what is known as a consent log, ideally. You first ask for consent verbally, then you write it out in the log. It’s best if you video the agreement before performing any act that could be considered, in any way, sexual. That includes kissing, touching most all parts of the body below and above the…

You think so? Personally, I think it’s so eyerollingly wrapped up in jargon and buzz phrases that, even if the message is good, the delivery makes it hard for me to take it seriously (which isn’t saying I doubt her sincerity, one thing this apology does convey is that she is having a crisis of conscious).

Apparently a statement that essentially says “This was completely my fault, I have caused serious irreparable harm, I apologize profusely, and I will do my best to avoid doing it again” is rape apologism? I guess they wanted her to just say “I AM A DOGSHIT HUMAN BEING WHO RAPED SOMEONE”

But apologies don’t ever negate the harm done. They are meant to acknowledge that harm was in fact done, i.e. the impact of one’s actions. That’s why the “sorry you were offended” non-apology is such bullshit. It puts the origin of the harm on the victim, not on the actual perpetrator.

Now THAT’s how an apology is done, Geoff Marcy!

Assuming she goes through with her list of resolutions, this is a hell of a way to walk the walk. This might be the first time ever I’ve felt positive about an assaulter (as opposed to frustrated, outraged, etc).