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That's a thorny devil, native to Central Australia. I find them all the time, they're so awesome!

Where is the feminism here? It's a funny joke. A lot of girls take for granted that we know what kind of products to buy when it comes to feminine hygiene and don't understand how it's hard for guys. This person is saying 'Oh. I understand now.' Which is funny. So you can laugh not and not try to bring in 'Ugh feminists' when there is no reason to.

Depends on where you are in Aus. It's still legal in the Northern Territory on 'Territory Day', but illegal to have fireworks any other day of the year.

This is the first guest that wrote. The second guest was not me. Anyway, in reply to you saying that there were opportunities to escape, look I can see what you're getting at. I don't think you (tyler) were victim blaming. But I still disagree that semantics should be a part of this debate. The world is not black and white. I don't think that if you need a stipulation that 'but if emotions weren't there then there were opportunities to escape', because there WERE emotions, and there never would NOT be emotions. And emotion is just one part of it. This didn't happen in my case, but plenty of people I have met in this situation, and heard about, have to also deal with the safety of their children (plenty of situations where someone left and their abusive partner murdered their children because of it), drug abuse and dependency, homelessness, nowhere else to go. It is not just a matter of 'you are being treated badly and you could have geographically escaped from the abuser'.

Top comment is ignorant as hell. As someone who has experience dealing with this sort of abuse (albeit nowhere near as bad), I can tell you that you don't think clearly while it is happening. You are terrified of the person but you also think that that is all you will ever amount to. It's almost like a mental illness of it's own, which is really tricky to beat. If someone beats depression and then gets depressed again, you don't hear people saying 'that was your fault, you could have controlled that'. Don't blame the victim. Go educate yourself.