Hope For My Own Healing

The Hope For Healing blogathon was harder than I thought…
I thought I could, by dedicating a day to the subject of domestic violence, finally be personal about my own experiences, but that was not the case.
At first I thought it was because the world, my life, wouldn’t stop for me for 24 hours (despite scheduling [...]

Up & At ‘Em

I am up at 8 A.M. On a Saturday. For the blogathon. About an issue that’s very had to talk about.
I sit here and try to wake up.
My husband is laughing so hard at lolcats on Caturdays I fear he will choke on his peanut butter toast — toast which, by the way, he [...]

I Interrupt National Romance Week For Some News…

At 8:00 A.M. on Saturday, August 15, 2009, Hope For Healing will be hosting their first ever Blogathon — 24 hours of blogging dedicated to raising awareness of & funds for helping victims of domestic violence. And I’ll be participating.
Twolia has generously & graciously sponsored me for this Blogathon & I’ll do everything I [...]

If I Only Had A Penis

Dear Wizard of Oz,
After hearing of your kind generosity towards straw men, lions, tin men, and stray girls & their little dogs, I was wondering if I might be granted a penis — just for a few days. And I’ll return it unused, I swear!
I just need one penis, no matter how small, to get [...]

Men Claim They Are Dumb Animals With No Ability To Control Their Violence

G, aka ToxicShockTaco, commented here about some stupid comments she’s read & frustrating conversations she’s had online which prompted her to write this blog post. Following her links, I found the usual victim blaming mentality which serves to excuse criminal acts; things which shouldn’t surprise me because they are so commonplace. But still, [...]

Enough Is Enough

Now that Steve Ward & VH1 have shown us their true colors, showing indifference to concerns of misogyny and perpetuating inaccurate information which could add to the danger of women and other victims of rape, we must take action.
Before I urged you to contact VH1 via their blog and Ward at his Match Makers website, [...]

More On Moron Steve Ward & The Rape Issue

The conversation about Steve Ward’s stupidity is continuing — thank Gawd.
But all the talk brings up a few points I’d like to clarify.
1) I was really enjoying Tough Love up to this point. Ward (and the shows producers) seemed to be operating from the old BDSM mantra, “Safe, sane & consensual,” something pretty rare in [...]

Yes, I’m A Domestic Violence Survivor

This snippet on page five in Wives Legal Rights, by Richard T. Gallen (Dell Purse Book, 1965), breaks my heart. Not just because it’s about what we’d now call domestic violence which “may be” pursued as a crime, but because while the publication is over 40 years old, the cultural lag is so much [...]

13 Signs You’re In A Toxic Relationship

Thirteen Signs You’re In A Toxic Relationship
1 Most, if not all, of your family and friends do not like or trust your partner. This can be a tricky one to recognize for several reasons. Parents, especially, may not state their lack of trust directly because they know that in our state of love & [...]

Reason #7 Why I Can Write Relationship Advice

When I was younger, I used to fall for big men with even bigger swaggers. Not quickly enough did I learn that most often what I had mistaken for confidence was defensive posturing hiding a rotten, neurotic and needy man-child who needed me to bolster his ego, his identity and make him feel successful.

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