THAT IS MY ARTICLE ON ODYSSEY! I changed some, and posted it here..and on youngamericancriers, too! IT IS MINE!

Ohmygosh! WOW! I think that is an AWESOME idea for a book....I think the whole "playing the victim" thing is thrown into victims' faces unnecessarily all the time!! Especially when you are dealing

I read this and lost my breath for a moment, because I have led a very similar life of abuse, and because of the childhood abuse followed by adult rapes, I have had many ex partners accuse me of being

Thanks! I appreciate that. For some reason, I just felt really compelled to make mention of them in my reply, and since I was feeling okay with it, to a point anyway, I decided to let it out. I know talking

The thing that gets me is that these are supposed to be TRAINED individuals, that are taught to handle situations that are dangerous. The average citizen does NOT receive this training, or have any specially

THANK YOU! I was actually in the process of gathering my statistical information for my own post regarding this matter. I am absolutely disgusted at the amount of focus and attention (not to mention riots)

I have to apologize for the conclusion. I think it may have gotten inadvertently cut short. She has stated in multiple interviews for various magazines that she was working as a women's advocate, but more

The GREATEST part is that she has a post about internet trolls, and talks about how they just bother other people to evoke an emotional response to amuse themselves, but.....are we not seeing a pot calling

I feel like their actions just defeat the whole purpose of steemit, and if they cannot respect the opinions of others because they are too narrow-minded to allow others to have their own thoughts separate

Thank you! I think, too, that this topic is one that is often pushed to the wayside and not given the weight that it should be, leaving those who are in the situation feeling, not only as though they were

This is an excellent post! I was just having a conversation with my mother about this very issue! Here, in America, many states practically FORCE parents to vaccinate their children. In order to get around