F**k Joe Paterno
Yes, you read that right- Fuck Joe Paterno. And you can HR me, unfollow me, curse me out or do whatever you want for saying that. Have at it. I don't care.I don't care that Joe Paterno is dead. I don't...
View ArticleI have an idea, and I need your help *UPDATED*
This is going to be a brief diary, because holy cow, I'm still overwhelmed by the other one. I originally put this as an update but with almost 2,000 comments now, I imagine that it's not going to be...
View ArticleI need MORE of your help! (Updated)
This is a continuation of the diary I posted yesterday:I have an idea, and I need your helpWhich was itself a continuation of the diary posted the day before:F**k Joe PaternoHere is the premise of my...
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“No One Spoke Up for Us": For The Children Who Had No Voice and For those...
WARNING* WARNING WARNING This whole post is full of triggers...there is no getting around it. The black boxes were a good idea but they don't suffice. If you need to, just scroll down to below the...
View ArticleDisappointed
That's how I went to bed a couple nights ago feeling. Disappointed, angry, sad, but most of all disappointed.Disappointed because when I wrote FUCK JOE PATERNO, the whole of daily kos pretty much...
View Article(UPDATED-Screed is DOWN!)Thank You, Pat Robertson!
Let me start by saying this was not the diary I planned on writing today. I actually have some really big news to share with all of you, about what my dear friend Roxine and I have been working on for...
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Sluts: 1, Pat Robertson: 0
You know what they say...Never doubt the power of a few committed sluts to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.You may have seen a fewdiariesposted in the past 24 hours about...
View ArticleTree Climbers- Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting: A Teenagers Story
Inspired by Lonely Texan's great announcement, I decided to share my own story. This is especially important for parents, since I was only 15 when I started dating this person. Abuse in teenage...
View ArticleIntroducing TREE Climbers-The Movement that Daily Kos Created
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word...
View Article"I don't care if you're just thirteen" (UPDATE)
"Jail Bait", written and preformed by Ted NugentIve got no inhibitions So keep your keys out of your ignition I steal a car like I got the curse I cant resist the old lady's purse Jailbait you look so...
View ArticleTREE Climbers: Opening Pandora's Box-The Forgotten History of Sexual Trauma...
This is the first installment in a 5-part series on the history of rape, sexual abuse, and trauma as a social and political issue:Part 1-Opening Pandora's Box: The Age of Hysteria Part 2-Never Hers...
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A Kossack needs our help (LINK FIXED!)
And I feel responsible for the lack of response- I told her not to say right off the bat that she needed help, because people here would naturally assume that without her needing to say it out loud.In...
View ArticleMeet Jane Doe-An "Infamous" Rape Victim Reclaims Her Dignity *UPDATED with...
[Massive Trigger Warning for this entire post]I first "met" Jane Doe about 8 years ago. I was lying on the couch with my boyfriend at the time, watching TV. One of those hour-long primetime crime...
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BREAKING-Jerry Sandusky Was Running An Overnight Football Camp For Kids On...
Oops, my bad...this actually isn't "breaking" news at all. It was reported by the website Deadspin on November 6th, 2011 and for whatever reason it never got picked up. I just happened to run across...
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The Oppressor's Language Sometimes Sounds Beautiful: Let us move on.
I will not say again I sat on his lap. No. He had me on his lap. You were not raped; he raped you. Memory moves as it can, freedom is yours to place the verb. And yes, the oppressor's language...
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I apologize (Please do not recommend!) UPDATED with statement from family
I posted a diary about a half hour ago before fully understanding the facts...clouded over by strong emotions, as it involves a member of my family. I was confused, and now I'm just distraught. I...
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UPDATED x2-Facts Matter: Daily Kos Labor Diary on Charter School/Teacher...
Laura Clawson posted the following diary this evening for Daily Kos Labor:Instead of Teacher Appreciation Week, President Obama asks us to celebrate Charter School WeekAs of right now, it has over 200...
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"Well, Duh!"
(Note-this started as a comment in Jpmassers diary-I decided to expand it)The Junior Jewfish was a bit perplexed this afternoon when mom started randomly jumping up and down, screaming and hollering in...
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Fox News Flip Flops, Calls Off War On Marriage
Well, that didn't take long!Yesterday's headline:Todays Headline:Once again, the republican party shows us that they love starting wars-but when it comes to actually fighting them, they are a bunch of...
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Books That Changed My Life-Trauma & Recovery by Judith Herman, M.D.
I will open this with both a warning, and a bit of an apology-As the title of the book suggests, Judith Herman writes about Trauma. I am a survivor of sexual abuse. The importance of this book simply...
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