I was moved to write the following in response to this excellent post which was, of course, a response to the recent gay teen suicides.My abuse started in second grade when I gained a little weight and was slightly chubby. It was relentless, starting with the verbal (fatty, fatty two by four...) and moving on to constant threats of violence. No, ( Read more... )

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Salon talks about an interesting study of mandatory arrest laws for domestic violence. There is a discussion of why victims might be reluctant to call the police, and more discussion in the letters written in response. I wrote a letter about why I was reluctant to call the cops one night. Then I responded to another letter writer who suggested that ( Read more... )