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LeftyMom

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9. I'm about ready to talk about any damned thing else for a while.
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 08:32 PM
Aug 2012

And I'm not really one to call TRIGGERING! on every damned thing that hits a nerve (and in fact I find that intensely annoying) but in a world where being a woman and being a victim of sexualized violence form a venn diagram barely distinguishable from a single circle, politicians and the media throwing the R word around without consideration for the fact that it's intensely hurtful to nearly half the population gets really goddamned old.

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