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MargaretMoony
09/15/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
Argh, both the Annie Le and Samantha Orobator stories make me ill.
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Katxyz
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
Normally I don't get emotionally involved with this murder/kidnapping stories because I dislike how sensationalized they are in the media, but every time I see that shot of her from the security camera footage I feel shockingly sad and angry. She looks just like so many smart young women I see at my college every day, focused on getting her work done, and it makes me sick to think about it. I can imagine walking by her just like that and waving. The image is just too relateable for me and for god's sake, she was just minding her business in the lab and happily focused on her work. Awful.
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Jack_Burton
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
Must be a big set if Judy can donate it twice.

"like sending a child molester to speak to a kindergarten class."

If a kindergarten class fucked up the country the way Wall Street irrefutably has, I'd send that class to Pedophile Island.*

*Sorry, wasn't my metaphor to begin with.
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roxythekiller
09/15/09

@Jack_Burton: lmao, that's gold.
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cantankasaurus rex
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
i hate to give the Daily Fail any credit, but as a small woman who carries an extremely large purse, i have often been keenly aware that i am probably frighteningly vulnerable as i walk through the parking lot digging for my keys. :-(
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fluxus flucker
09/14/09

@cantankasaurus rex: I carry a smallish, congested purse. Believe me, its still an accomplishment to find my keys! So, I always search for them while in the store, restaurant, etc.
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Red-headed bookworm
09/15/09

@fluxus flucker: I do too. Searching for my keys generally causes me to be late getting somewhere. It doesn't lead to me getting attached.
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MizJenkins
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
Annie Le was murdered and stuffed in a wall and Tucker Max still roams free and breathes the common air...That's it, I resign from humanity.
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RainbowBrite
09/14/09

@MizJenkins: God seriously. You said it all right there.
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IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
I have a good line for Tucker Max: Being a sexist idiot isn't the same as being edgy and funny.
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babzie
09/14/09

@IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: You forgot to end with "you brainless asshole."
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GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
RIP Annie Le, and <3 to your family and Jon. The world is not the same today.
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rixatrix
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
The Fail also says men lie an average of six times a day — twice as often as women - and somehow, it's a woman's fault.
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curiousgeorgiana
09/14/09

@rixatrix: Well duh. If the wimmenz didn't ask so many questions, they wouldn't need to lie.
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Penny
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
I can't even begin to imagine what Le's Financé is feeling right now.
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kookla
09/14/09

@Penny: Seriously. What's going on in the world where women are being hunted like prey?
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Penny
09/14/09

@kookla: My dad asked me the same thing, I told him it would take me a lifetime to answer :-(
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
09/14/09

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An ad network rejected Tucker Max's ads — sample line: "Sexism isn't the same as misogyny, you stupid bitch." — because they violated policy of not running "garbage."

Faith in humanity briefly restored.
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twisted_martini
09/14/09

In reply to Police: Yale Murder Not A Random Act • Daily Mail: Big Purses Lead To Rape
The Annie Le case makes me so so sad. It can't be random - murdered the week of her wedding? Not random. Still tragic.
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mariamariamaria
09/14/09

@twisted_martini: Why would she have been murdered? Are there any theories?

So awful and sad!
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
09/14/09

@twisted_martini: It's really upsetting. Especially since I'm living on campus right now and the building she was in apparently had such great security.
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Spacegirl goes home
09/14/09

@mariamariamaria: the running theory is that she had a stalker with a crush, and the fact that she was getting married lead to "If I can't have you no one can."

Ugh. Her poor family. Her poor Fiance.
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twisted_martini
09/14/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: There hasn't been much coverage on the news lately. I say Yale is working hard to keep it quiet.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
09/14/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Ooops, I think that sounds like I go to Yale. I just meant on a big college campus in general.
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RainbowBrite
09/14/09

@Spacegirl goes home: That thought seriously makes my blood boil. it's terrible when anyone is murdered, but when a woman is killed by a man who thinks he owns her, I just want to smash someone's face in.
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NorthernLite
09/14/09

@Spacegirl goes home: I'd wondered if it was a jilted ex.

I've heard of other tragedies taking place right before a wedding. It's almost impossible to imagine the survivors' grief. Or to think about the wasted life.

My sympathies to Yalies and people at other schools unnverved by this.

(Last spring there was a stalker murder [and then suicide] at the college where I work. But it was the same weekend my father died, followed shortly by other family problems, so the shock I normally would've felt at the workplace/school tragedy was overshadowed.)
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gherkinfiend
05/11/09

In reply to No Brainers
Sometimes I feel like a snail when my handbag is full...it's like having my house on my back because I hate to be caught without something I need when I'm out.

Plus, I rarely buy a handbag that can't hold a bottle of gin or wine as I hate carrying clanking glass bottles on public transport.
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NewsBunny
05/11/09

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Back in the day, before digital equipment, I had to carry:

A cassette recorder, which was about ten inches square, three inches deep, and about eight pounds.

Extra cassettes!

A couple mics/and mic stand

A landline phone, so I could plug in and report anywhere.

Multiple notebooks and pens

All the research I'd done on a story

And that's before personal things, like a wallet, and something to eat and drink if I was going to be standing in the same place all day, tampons, a trench coat, and a fedora with with a little cardboard tag that said 'press'.
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raineoffire
05/11/09

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Am I the only one who carries nail clippers in my purse at all times? I always thought my mom taught me well, since I can get rid of hangnails at any time. But people (even girls) have told me it's a weird thing to carry. It's not like they're heavy!
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SarahMC
05/11/09

@raineoffire: I do too.
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
05/11/09

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I like my big bag. There I said it.

Unless it's big enough to knock out another pedestrian as they pass by, it's fine. And causing problem to no one.

I joke that by carrying around a 10+ lb bag everywhere I am staying in shape.

Which, is actually bullshit.
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