Well, here's a little sour seasoning for one inspirational tale of endurance. The Denver Post reports that Aron Ralston (the man who inspired 127 Hours) and his girlfriend were both arrested on charges of assault and "wrongs to minors" on Sunday. Their eight-week-old child was reportedly present at the time, though the… Read… 12/09/13 5:30pm Monday 5:30pm

Aspire News is a new app out for iPhone and Android that's made for people in abusive relationships. It's an interesting idea, and one that might actually help a lot of people. Read… 11/21/13 10:00am 11/21/13 10:00am

In awful news out of Florida, a woman has been charged with rape after assaulting her partner with a 'marital aid,' according to police reports. Read… 11/09/13 2:31pm 11/09/13 2:31pm

George Zimmerman, the gun waving lunatic who killed BUT DID NOT MURDER unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, is in the middle of a messy divorce. The latest allegation brought by his estranged wife is that once when he was mad at her, he nailed a bullseye riddled with bullet holes to her parents' house. "Yep, sounds about… Read… 10/31/13 2:10pm 10/31/13 2:10pm

For twelve bucks, you can purchase "domestic violence" anise sage from an online gardening store whose owner thinks offensive always = hilaaaarious. Read… 9/06/13 10:25am 9/06/13 10:25am

Two seemingly unrelated stories in the New York Times about violence against women in two different European countries demonstrate that if you just listen to women, they'll tell you what they need to fix a problem. A while the answer is usually more help from the government, women usually point to different solutions… Read… 8/19/13 11:10am 8/19/13 11:10am

Navigating social media can be both difficult and daunting: for the average Internet user, controlling your privacy settings is often simply baffling (I stopped understanding how they function about three "new Facebooks" ago and I basically sleep with my laptop clutched to my breast). For any survivor of domestic… Read… 8/02/13 1:40pm 8/02/13 1:40pm

Nigella Lawson's soon-to-be-ex husband Charles Saatchi announced this weekend that he's divorcing his wife because she didn't make a big fucking show of defending him after a series of horrifying photos of him publicly strangling her made the media rounds a month ago. In his self-pitying statement announcing he was… Read… 7/10/13 12:30pm 7/10/13 12:30pm

Three in ten women have been "punched, shoved, dragged, threatened with weapons, raped, or subjected to other violence" from former or current boyfriends/husbands, while half of all murdered women are killed by their partners, according to the first global, systematic study of violence against women. Read… 6/21/13 1:40pm 6/21/13 1:40pm

Judging by tabloid talk shows, crazy ladies regularly cut holes in condoms and lie about taking birth control in order to trick men into becoming baby daddies. But doctors are now being instructed to look for the opposite: women who are pressured into getting pregnant. They're not rare. Read… 5/30/13 3:20pm 5/30/13 3:20pm

It'll come as a surprise to nobody anywhere ever to learn that the psychopath who kidnapped, imprisoned, raped, and tortured three women for ten years reportedly has a history of repeatedly abducting his daughters and threatening to kill his wife and daughters. Read… 5/08/13 9:30am 5/08/13 9:30am

While all Saudi women are still under the guardianship of a male family member — usually a husband or father — the first Saudi domestic violence ad marks progress for the Kingdom's women. Read… 4/27/13 1:00pm 4/27/13 1:00pm

Houston area hippie-dippie restaurant Roots Bistro ran a sign on its marquee this weekend proclaiming "Beer should be like violence: domestic." Read… 4/15/13 12:00pm 4/15/13 12:00pm

Lady pop quiz: what concerns you more, domestic violence or the true nutritional value of low-fat yogurt? "Wife beating" or that realllly enticing Madewell shoe sale? Read… 4/04/13 1:45pm 4/04/13 1:45pm

In fact, domestic violence is two-to-four times as prevalent in police officer families as it is in the general population. Yikes. Read… 3/17/13 11:30pm 3/17/13 11:30pm

Speaking on behalf of the Ring The Bell campaign — a movement that calls on men and boys around the world to take a stand and make a promise to act to end violence against women — Sir Patrick Stewart, a consistent and powerful activist for equality, spoke eloquently about what violence against women looks like, and… Read… 3/10/13 9:30pm 3/10/13 9:30pm

Rob Morrison, the anchor for WCBS-TV's This Morning and News at Noon, is currently in custody for allegedly choking his wife Ashley Morrison, who's an anchor on CBS' MoneyWatch. Ugh. Read… 2/19/13 9:30am 2/19/13 9:30am

As part of an ongoing campaign to convince everyone to quit being Catholic, an Italian priest used his annual Christmas message to expound on a very Christmasy topic he'd spent many years studying in Priest JuCo — domestic violence. And like most instances when a celibate male Catholic official comments on what women… Read… 12/28/12 1:15pm 12/28/12 1:15pm

It would appear that the real-world is sometimes just as icky Sin City, which, you'll remember, featured Nick Stahl as the horrifyingly devious and untouchable Senator's son who can, by virtue of his parentage, get away with abusing young girls. Patrick Moran, the real-world son of Democratic Virginia Rep. Jim Moran,… Read… 12/12/12 9:15pm 12/12/12 9:15pm