The Florida Legislators banning abortion at 6 weeks and how I am coping (long comment - please hold) source

Straight to jail! 🪞 source

An affirmation poster I made during tonight's Girls & Gays craft night source

My boyfriend proposed to me today at the Renaissance Faire. He presented me with a ring and a FUCKING SWORD.

I'm on top of the world guys! I can't share my excitement with family yet, so I came here! 💖 source

Suck it, H. G. Wells source

I need to recalibrate my fucks. source

Altered my brain chemistry source

Embrace your flock source

Misogynists when they tell the only joke they know for the billionth time. source

Found in St Paul, MN; proud to live here!

So happy to have driven by this (hence the janky quality to the pic), especially after passing one or two anti-choice billboards earlier. ♥️ source

I was suppose to go on a date but got stood up, but slayed anyway

I posted on Insta and he saw the picture and said he was sorry. He was begging me to give him another chance and he apparently didn’t mean to cancel last minute 🙄 source

Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones tried to enter the chamber carrying a child sized casket today. source

We really don't care. source

“No means no” 1960 edition 🏹 source

M(actual)RW when my patient says "I think you're a good nurse bc as an Iranian you're used to pleasing demanding men." source

Conservative Christians are running scared because the society they've repressed for hundreds of years is now coming out, as they lose more and more power and die out in the West source

Cut to the chase: source

“Rational” men on reddit: source

My husband pled guilty after raping me

Back Story:

We were separated, he'd been sexually assaulting me for years and I had finally filed gotten the courage to file for divorce. He kept making excuses for why he could not hold up his end of our custody agreement. I'd just started a new job and did not have daycare lined up yet. The agreement was for him to stay for 4 days to watch over the kids while I worked for that first week.

I hadn't been assaulted by him in a while, he seemed to have excepted the divorce, he had a new partner from what I understood, and I thought I was safe again.

The assault:

On 09/12/2019 (the last of the 4 days he was staying, I was taking him home in the morning) I went to sleep after coming home from work (evening shift nursing so around midnight). I woke up twice in the middle of the night because I could feel what he was doing. I turned my head to look at him and he immediately stopped. He had been masturbating and penetrating me with his fingers. I was still too weak to move my body and dozed off again. The second time I woke up he had immediately started again. This time I was awake enough to move my body. I. Kicked. The. FUCK. Out of him. I kicked him hard enough that he fell from the bed and hit the floor. But while I was kicking him, I felt myself hitting a smaller body. He had our 3 year old (unpotty-trained) son laying naked next to him while he did this.

I don't remember if I slept again. I know that in the morning I sent him a message to confront him. I knew if I went downstairs to confront him face to face, I would kill him. He apologized and said he never meant to hurt me and he just didn't want a divorce. He always said this after he assaulted me. It was like he had a script in his mind of what to say to make me let it go. I got up. I put on something, I don't remember what I wore this morning. I marched downstairs, past him, grabbed my keys, went to the police station and told on him.

Reporting:

The first officer to greet me listened to my story and said "Okay.......he's your HUSBAND." As if that should have excused it. I don't know what it was about the way that I looked at him but he immediately went and got the detective they had who specialized in sex crimes. HE listened to me and took the report seriously. They let me write it out in detail. He asked me what I wanted to happen. He told me what the next steps were. I asked that they made him go to therapy. I knew that he likely did these things to me because he was violated the same way throughout his childhood. I knew he was a first time offender and jail was not likely so I wanted to make sure he was rehabilitated in SOME way.

He found the police report paper as soon as I got back (I'm sure someone who knew him saw the car parked at the police station after I went and told him). He ran from the officers for 10 days and then went in to talk to them and tell them that he did it because "it was his kink". They'd already filed charges and put out a warrant the day before, so they booked him 09/23/2019. He stayed there until March of 2020 when he was released on house arrest. This was when quarantine began.

The courts were closed until 2022 and then they continued. Lots of stalling over these years from his lawyer. Even a no call no show from his lawyer. They offered him a couple f reasonable plea deals. He came back with one for misdemeanor assault. We said no. I did not want it to look like this was not a sex crime. That was really important to me. No deal was reached. They marched on to trial. It was set for earlier this year. In the weeks leading up to trial, things were looking shaky. I was advised that cases like mine were extra hard because many people this men should be able to brutalize their wives. But I stuck it out. If I didn't fight for me, I knew I could not live with myself. No matter the result. About ... source