I think the most telling part of this study is that a lot of men, and not a small amount of women, will often engage in life threatening activities that have little or no measurable payoff. For instance, if you decide to climb Everest, well, good for you I guess, but if you die in the process, well, I'm not gonna get… Read more
I dunno Anna, if you had been raised differently, I kinda think you might have grown up to have a morbid fascination with explosives.
One question: Why is the Washington Post just now revealing this if they've been in contact with Jackie's friends for weeks? Did they sit on it, or did Jackie's friends give them these bombshells in bits and pieces? None of it makes any sense. Read more
This shows the way in which we are so vested in picking apart victims's testimony about their rapes, adamant that they have unassailable crystal clear versions of events even if they can't because the events themselves are traumatic, hazy, and might be too horrible to remember (Like Lena Dunham's Buzzfeed piece… Read more
Maybe it isn't that Jackie is the "wrong person to represent" and actually this article is a complete clusterfuck. . Read more
I'd imagine that's a well populated bar association. Read more
Thanks for saying that. I was just commenting to say that I am not crazy, I'm the person the article is about and I honestly can't take sitting her reading this having people call me "nutty as a squirrel turd" and other things when I really am a sane person and eight other human beings have looked at my ultrasounds…
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This is kind of irrelevant, but MSU has a history of terrible commencement speakers. One year (2009?) the MSU winter commencement speaker was the lady who founded the Susan Komen foundation and that was also terrible, listening to her babble on about herself and how much good she's doing by profiting, and helping… Read more
I've heard him speak, he was paid probably an obscene amount of money to come talk for a charity function for our local bar association. Let that digest. Read more
He said, too, that 200 women couldn't have been raped, given that Tabit is a small village and there aren't more than 100 soldiers at the garrison. He added, "Therefore, this accusation is illogical and does not resemble to the moral values of Sudanese, whether they are military or not. This is impossible." Read more
Knowing how rape has been systematically used as a weapon of war in Darfur, in the Congo, in CAR etc. that last sentence is so moronic and down right insulting. But lets not forget that this is from a country who's sitting president is so far the only person to be indicted by the ICC for, among other, genocide. Read more
This is just my opinion but I find the publication of this essay to be a bit premature. You really ought to have waited until she had passed 10 months or even a year, and continued to speak with her and present the way she dealt with the eventual non-birth of the non-baby. The way it's written, this essay seems… Read more
I feel for Ruby. Something similar to this happened to me earlier this year, not to this extent but I had so many symptoms, I was SURE I was pregnant. When I described how I felt to my OB, even she was like, yeah sounds like you're pregnant. But tests were done and I went to 3 more doctors and we found out that I just… Read more
As someone in mental health I do sort of feel for the ultrasound tech. While normally an argumentative patient does not warrant that person being committed, we don't know the details of how Ruby acted. That said, these "phantom" pregnancies occur and dealing with them is akin to dealing with other conditions such as… Read more