If they think nicotine is natural and healthy, wait till they experience the “natural” benefits of Ebola.

Thank you. This is the best news and best way to shut these bruh-duh-muckers down!

Update: The 62 million estimated hits were to an entire porn site. The “online rape academy” was a chat with around 1,000 active commenters. It’s unclear how many accessed content, but not 62,000,000.

We still need to enact change.

Women, we need to organize.
We need to investigate.
We need to name names.
We need to prosecute.
We need to elect each other into office.
We need to pass & uphold laws to protect each other.
We need to unite & fortify against the unending tide of gender violence.

No more. It’s war.

5/5 (for now)

8. All these manfluencers making a buck by telling others how to be a real man, but when the subject of rape culture comes up, they complain that we’re even talking about it? They’re mad women are mad?

9. Why are so many men cowards & unwilling to discuss let alone address sexual violence?

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6. In some states, it’s legal to kill an intruder in your home. Yet why are we unable to expose the names of those who conspire to enact violence on our bodies?

7. In other words, why are mere possessions more worth protecting than a woman’s safety?

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4. And how to monetize the rapes of their loved ones for content?

5. And before anyone pats CNN on the back, why do we have to agree to a loss of rights (their privacy policy) to read the article?

6. Did CNN report this and make sure an investigation was underway before posting the article?

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Rape Academy Questions:

1. Were 62 million hits in February unique visitors?

2. If so, and if it’s true they were mostly from the US, are you telling me 1/5 of our 330 million population willingly wants to learn to rape undetected?

3. And learn to drug their loved ones for others to rape?

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Not surprisingly, nearly all of the comments on this rape culture piece directed solely at men are from women.

The majority of men refuse to even enter the conversation.

And reforming the legal system so that it’s safe and effectual to file SA reports would be nice, too. Until that happens, the reality is most gender violence criminals face zero consequences.

Men who take pleasure in publicly humiliating women. Smdh.

States' AGs must be busy then, since presidential pardons don't apply at the state level.

Does Ms. Leavitt really not know that?

That's some consolation, but not, like you said, the home you had with MCD. So sorry.

Weird. Could it be you have pop-up windows blocked?

Yikes. I’m so sorry! I wonder happens to all their titles over the past ten years. What a shame.

What a surprise! I would never have guessed

Ha! So true. Your wife is a wise woman!

Thanks, also, for sending me back to this beauty from the amazing Mr. Heaney:

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Aww, thanks for reading it and for these kind words, too!

Gender violence, especially against women and girls of color, is always at the bottom of the funding list.

If that same number of people died or went missing due to some unknown illness, you can bet the govt would throw all kinds of money at finding the cause and cure.

My first thought before reading the text?
What a pretty primrose!

Thank you, Jennifer!

Thanks, Veronica!

Huge thanks to Jaime Poissant and the editors at Aquifer and @theflreview.bsky.social for accepting this little nubbin about sea urchins and learning to trust again.

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I was thinking the same thing. It’s still how we dress in the PNW.

The books Strange Gift by Veronica Kornberg and The Long Now Conditions Permit by Jami Macarty sit next to one another on a wood table.

Book mail!

Look at these two beauties. New poetry collections from @vkornberg.bsky.social and Jami Macarty.

Oh frabjous day!

Amazing. Two accounts shared a fake story about an evangelical sending his Grindr info to his congregation. I shared the Snopes post & 1 account blocked me, the other got defensive.

The thing is, we don't need to make stuff up. The truth is way worse and sharing fake clickbait only discredits us.

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