“was it raped”

Ugh. I give you sympathy. This is why there are statutory rape laws.

I read this dread and horror. This was me, but 14 years old and listening to tapes with a too-experienced-for-16, 16 year old. Reading this, my knees clamped and my stomach knotted and my mouth clenched. I got tired of saying no; he broke me down until I just didn’t consent or actually consent. I also was wearing a…

If there is a woman alive who has not had this experience, I’d like to meet her, because she is a rare, rare creature. I’m so grateful to you for sharing your story and elaborating on the complexity of consent. So many people want to make it a black-and-white, yes-or-no issue, and the more people who stand up and say…

Last year I was raped on a date in a similar manner. I kept saying no, that I didn’t want to do this, but the guy kept smiling and saying that if I didn’t take care of him he was going to have to take care of it himself. He was 6'7 and much bigger than me. I think he thought I was playing coy and I’m sure he thought…

“Freezing is a third fear response recognized in the field of psychology but, for some reason, missing from public discourse. Someone tries to put a hand on me; I’m uncomfortable, but I can’t move or speak. “No” is not clear.” http://ladyclever.com/culture/freezi…

She forgets sometimes. It’s hard to keep playing the role of Democrat, when in your heart you’re really a centrist Republican.

a) i feel like i remember him saying already that yes, he would probably have to raise taxes slightly for everyone?

George Carlin said it best. “Anything can be joked about. It depends on the CONTEXT of the joke that makes it funny. Gervais’s CONTEXT seems to be a mix of, I’m a huge asshole, and, I bought my own press and have become a pathetic caricature of myself.

The current top tax rate is 39.6 percent. What are the odds we get a “Progressive” Congress and POTUS over the next 30 years and they raise the top rate to 60, 75, 90 percent? Take the money now and you can move your money and invest your money to avoid future tax increases.

This is what I have always said. To hell with the idea that “I can do better investing it myself”.

Because it’s not inheritable. You die, the remainder of your winnings go back to the state.

I agree that getting suddenly filthy rich won’t guarantee you happiness and may cause problems. But I’ve never found working in a boring job 8-12 hours a day to stave off poverty is any sort of spiritual Nirvana either. I would be willing to experiment with a different set of problems for awhile.

Those are the people that play BJ and don’t realize that the person playing “incorrectly” has just as much of a chance to make everyone win as they do to make everyone lose. Same type of people that hypocritically won’t hit on soft 18 if dealer is showing 9+ (which is statistically the “correct” thing to do). I never…

Are you sure that’s not the multi-purpose room at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center?

“What did she call you?!”

i feel like weed to heroin is probably something she has seen before and doesn’t want to happen to anybody else.

FIFY

“I’m just telling you what my childhood was like. Not my childhood, but someone else’s.”

really bothered by the drug culture that surrounded my childhood —not mine personally. I grew up in suburbia