Wonder what he would’ve thought if she just “got a bit excited” right back at his face…
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Hey, that’s what she gets for being within reach.
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“I want to know why I’m so reluctant to be in my natural state.”
Anam Cara
“A Prickly State”
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The nearby passengers watched, and didn’t do ANYTHING to help.
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I hope it’s possible to ID those people and charge them with failure to report or something similar. I couldn’t find any PA laws regarding bystanders that didn’t lead back to Good Samaritan statues written about medical intervention or drug crimes.
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Fucking gutless cowards.
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I mean, to manage to assault her in that way, he’d have to be facing her. Damn straight I’d have brought something heavy down on the back of his head.
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Exactly!!!
And instead, no one could even be bothered to call it in!
I despair.
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Holy shit. People suck. Bystander Effect? Afraid he could be armed? Recollection of what happened in PNW when folks did intervene and got killed for it? OK, I guess… But why didn’t one of them pull out their omnipresent phone and call for help?
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I intentionally left out “no one gave a damn,” but I guess that’s also possible.
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I can’t put my finger on this, but they went out of their way to make it seem like the author was a woman, which was played up as part of the reason for all the acclaim:
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They were like, “Take that, George Eliot!” Not realizing the vastly different situation they found themselves in, compared to her…
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1908, such a treat to hate-read. (The Atlantic works well with the simple hack of opening it in a private/incognito window.)
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“Showed YOU James Tiptree Jr!”
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I went to read this, forgot that it’s from 1908, and blew a gasket! 
It was still fucked up in 1908, of course, and plenty of feminists of their time railed against… Red Emma comes to mind…
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It’s in my toolbar!
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A post about the history of flawed obesity research and resulting facile conclusions reminded me of this piece on The Daily Show. If a part doesn’t exist on the people doing the studies and writing the medical books, they can make it seem as if it doesn’t exist at all…
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