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anarch

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2. "...and ever shall be" - well, maybe not

Reply to MaryMagdaline (Original post)

Thu Oct 4, 2018, 10:28 AM

Oct 2018

A few thousand years worth of patriarchal bullshit ruling over and oppressing us all doesn't mean this is an inevitable and un-fixable condition. Humans could collectively change this for the better, if we keep working at it. It's not like it's something completely out of our control, like gravity or something.

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Chrissie Blasey didn't tell anyone because at 15 [View all] MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 OP

You nailed it, Mary. Ohiogal Oct 2018 #1

"...and ever shall be" - well, maybe not anarch Oct 2018 #2

Thank you. Let's keep up the fight MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #10

Exactly. All of the women I know, and I mean all of them, MineralMan Oct 2018 #3

And even that type of behavior doesn't come close to holding someone down and covering their mouth MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #4

That's true, but it's still assaultive. MineralMan Oct 2018 #6

Definitely! MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #7

Even older, more established victims are discredited mythology Oct 2018 #5

More than 1/3 of my friends say they were sexually assaulted or raped before age 20. SharonAnn Oct 2018 #8

Same here. I did not actually add them up, but there was one friend who stated that she has never MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #9