All of a piece

[valarltd]

My oldest is having trouble with an asshole ex. He informed her if she ever left, he would run her out of town and he has enlisted a bunch of friends to help. They have done about $3000 worth of damage to her cars. He has gotten her fired. He has tried getting her fired from the new job. I worry how long it will be before he kills her cat...or her. And the headline in the Nashville Tennesseean will read "Stripper found murdered." All the good folks will cluck over their breakfasts and read the article for what titillation they can get. And it will be MY daughter.

(Yes, restraining order, yes papertrail with police. Yes help from friends. We're doing all we can. And tomorrow, we get the gods involved)
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And the rest of the news is making me want to find a lesbian separatist commune, because it's all of a piece:

Comedian Lindy West getting rape and death threats after speaking up.

Slut Shaming and Concern Trolling. Microaggressions in Geek Culture

Jim Hines has a roundup of the SFWA sexism brouhaha.

Pippa at the Spacefreighter's lounge has a more personal take on it. My favorite (for most barfworthy) bit: "A guy proffered the view that writers of SFR and female writers of SF are somehow destroying the genre. Polluting its purity. Writing 'bad' scifi."

seanan_mcguire sums it all up: "It's very telling that you'll get people saying, again, "author and lady author are just true facts," but then getting angry when you say that fine, if they want divisions, it needs to be "male and female author." No! Male is the default the norm the baseline of human experience! How dare you imply anything different!"

A Tel Aviv judge was made to step down after saying "Some girls enjoy being raped."

On May 6, the Air Force officer in charge of investigating sexual assaults was arrested. For Sexual Battery

An all-male congressional panel advanced a ban on abortions past 20 weeks. You know the time when they should be the LEAST controversial.

And the final bit:
Texas jury found shooter not guilty in death of prostitute. Said he was reclaiming his stolen cash.

And those articles right there tell me why the Ex feels he has every right to do this.

I am an agitated Mama Angel. And when you fuck with Mama Angel's kids, you fuck with the whole coven.
Bad idea...

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[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

BTW this is not fair or how it should be...but we live in a Rape culture, the victim(s) must always seek the solution. It should be the other way around.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

She's trying to live her life away from him and he keeps interfering. She's already planning a move in August (when her lease is up), the rest of us are trying to make sure she lives to pack.

She's got a safe haven and has gone there. I'll send her the Haven House number.