I really want it just to be a really terrible period that the cops were praying over.

YEAH, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN JUST

I don't think so at all. The physical burden of the mattress is strenuous, sure. But think of how walking in with a mattress will disrupt every class she goes to. How much room it takes up in an elevator. How it will slow/block traffic on a stairwell. Hell, how many people will be made uncomfortable by asking…

This was a totally fascinating read. There was pathos and self-reflection and emotional ups and downs. I'd watch this post in movie form.

Stealing pictures is not free speech. It is theft and harassment and bullying. Any guy who does this is a fucking douche bag and deserves nothing but contempt from all humanity.

Someone (@fmanjoo) made this analogy on twitter

Once I asked the admin of a message board to ban a guy for graphically telling me to die with every post I made for weeks (after I tried laughing it off, ignoring him, and straight up asking the guy to stop) and he said; "I don't believe in censorship."

Or why don't we just go back in time to when we all wore lots of clothes and hats. Oh wait - then creeps on the trolley car would be creep-sketching our ankles. So little changes overall.

Exactly. We really can't do anything about people who were raised so poorly and ignorantly. These are the men who do the most to repulse women, punish women and then complain that women are bitches and feminazis ruin everything.

Yeah, there are a LOT of folks who seem to think that "free speech" means that you are legally obligated to say every foolish thing that comes into your stupid skull.

I hope the victim-blaming guys that are all "what do you expect when you take pictures like that" are understanding when their wives/girlfriends never take nudie pics for them ever again.

i got in a back and forth with someone who kept being like 'well free speech means a lot of things to me.' like sorry idiot free speech means one fucking thing. ONE THING.

i think flowbee actually thinks it's LITERALLY every white man. i bet that's it. i bet that is exactly what she's saying.

I don't know much about Reddit, but the more I read the more convinced I become that is just a murky cesspool of weird, stunted dudes attempting to act on their most destructive urges under some sense of protection. The fact that there's so many if them and that they band together so quickly is sort of... Distressing?…

Well said Erin.

"I'm starting to think we've conflated 'free speech' with 'freedom to bully without consequences.'"

Yeah, I'm always so sad when Louisiana is in the news, because it is never for good stuff. On the plus side, I can always get a shocked guffaw out of people when I tell them that my home state was the one with the senator who didn't realize that vouchers for faith schools would apply to non-Christian schools as well.…

Yes, and that inconsistency is one of the issues that has been brought up with this kind of legal "logic." Why exclusively focus on admitting privileges for abortion clinics, and not, say, dermatologists? Plastic surgeons? Why the undue scrutiny of abortion clinics? But I got my law degree from watching Law and Order,…

"Up until two years ago, I, myself, had never had the privilege of attending any wedding with a theme other than "whoops, she's pregnant" or "might as well."" You Deserve all The Kudos just for this sentence alone.