I would accept that and not take it out on your grade, Jess.

I wanted to thank Sophia, Hil and Zen for sharing their stories. It's helped me clarify my thoughts and feelings about our culture's built-in misogyny and sexualized violence. The gamut that young women are forced to run through and the long-lasting effects and damage that it causes.

I'm grateful that you have shared what were difficult and traumatic experiences.

Two things I'm seeing more clearly now. One is how the culture repeatedly minimizes the effect on women. How they are expected to get over it and even this pressure to say, "I wasn't raped but..." and have to justify their feelings about these experiences.

And that's the second thing is just we have to stop drawing a line at rape and saying that's the standard of misogyny or sexual violence and everything else is dismissed.

First of all because even when Brock Turner is caught in the act, he gets away.

And second, because it dismisses and minimizes all this damage that occurs below the threshold of rape.

The person I unfriended today replied to me that as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things. Buh bye. DH kept me from unfriending my nephew by deleting all of his comments, since it was on one of his posts. That has been his coping method with relatives that he doesn't want to unfriend. He just deletes their objectionable comments.

We'll see what happens with this latest Flake business. Hmmm.

as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things.

FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE

That has been his coping method with relatives that he doesn't want to unfriend. He just deletes their objectionable comments.

I like the snooze button when it's their own questionable posts. I don't want to actually unfriend my nephew, but if I have to read the word "libtard" one more time...

as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things.

FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE

What Jess said.

We'll see what happens with this latest Flake business. Hmmm.

Lindsey G. to President: Can we have an FBI investigation? President: No. Flake, Murkowski, Collins, Manchin: Oh, well, we did everything we could. We confirm.

In a nutshell.

Yeah, that's what I expect and it's weighing me down. Maybe if I save my energy today I'll be ready to riot next week.

Sounds like an A paper on women's unpaid labor to me, Jess!

Maybe if I save my energy today I'll be ready to riot next week.

God, yes.

as a mother of sons I needed to understand that girls lie about these things.

Whuuuuuuut.

I am v much at "can't even" levels and thinking I will avoid news all weekend as possible which means fb. And my usual newspaper reading. Ugh.

FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE

Yeah, pretty much. I read her comment and clicked on her name and unfriended. My tolerance is about zero these days. Usually I unfollow first, but nah, no sense wasting time.