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• That sentence stood out to me too. I'm sorry, but "I shot my wife in the face when we were having an argument about household chores BUT I didn't mean to kill her" doesn't hold much water with me. It's
  (posted to What We Missed)
• "It's how it works: people with privilege treat everyone else as their personal jokes." Great way of putting it. Great article too. I have ADD and it definitely struck a chord for me.
  (posted to Disability and feminism: one person's experience)
• Pretty sure she didn't say ONLY people with privilege make others into their personal jokes. But thanks for coming out.
  (posted to Disability and feminism: one person's experience)
• I stood up to a creepy older guy recently - albeit in a passive-aggressive way. He's a middle-aged, married friend of my mother's; not really a friend-friend, but someone she parties with on the weekend. He's a big drinker and
  (posted to Standing up to a creepy uncle)
• Thanks. I guess I meant passive-aggressive in the sense that I used facebook and didn't do it face-to-face. But I guess it was probably better that way since, in all likelihood, he read the message while sober and it probably
  (posted to Standing up to a creepy uncle)

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• O for an apostrophe! This is why punctuation is important. (posted to Disability and feminism: one person's experience)
• Apologies for the delay in moderation - half of the Feministing editors are traveling, so getting to a computer has been a bit difficult. Thanks for your patience. (posted to Disability and feminism: one person's experience)
• Thx for good post! Thanks for useful information! Free Internet TV Channels livetv-oninternet.blogspot.com (posted to Gendered Expectations and Asperger Syndrome )
• I'm the mother of an incest survivor. Your story is deeply disturbing to me. Your uncle is a predator. And predators do not own their behavior. He will never validate your discomfort because, frankly, it is your discomfort that does (posted to Standing up to a creepy uncle)
• Good for you! And you were not passive-aggressive. You were simply assertive. Not aggressive, not passive, just strong. You just stood up for the right thing and won. Victories like this are bigger than just one incident. My mother was (posted to Standing up to a creepy uncle)

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