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Totally bad faith. Mental health awareness month is May. It's non-gendered but it's been May since 1949.

Source: NAMI. The National Alliance on Mental Health. I support them financially.

??? Mental Health Awareness Month is May. It's super easy to remember because of the alliteration.

The last part is the most important.

The pope coming to America is always a big deal. He's explicitly calling on American Catholics to choose sides.

I don't like arguing from a legal standpoint, because a legal standpoint is not necessarily a moral one, but where I live, things are different.

Yes, and now she's going to jail.

This is not a desirable outcome.

This joke is made all the better by the character's name being Dr. Kalgary.

I want to run this booth.

I keep thinking... nobody (that I know of) was mad when that one guy called the other the n word, and threatened to beat his ass, so he bashed his face in with a twisted tea. A woman gets slurred at and spits in a guy's face, and it's okay to hit her? Three times? She's not allowed to defend herself?

It's hypocritical. Either hate speech is violence or it's not.

(In case it's not clear, I may not have violence in me, but I fully believe twisted tea guy did the right thing.)

No, I mean, as a person with PTSD, I know that I have triggers. Where possible, it's my responsibility to manage myself to try and minimize exposure to them.

We do live in a society. If people like myself want to continue to be around others, we owe it to the people around us to either be careful where we are and when, or to have a plan in place for when we're getting worked up, and those of us who become violent as a reaction to stimulus have to be extra vigilant.

It's not about it being fair. It's not fair, what was done to me, to make me like this. But other people can't be reasonably assumed to have the training and education necessary to know what they're seeing or dealing with. And there are consequences for the way we react, regardless of the why.

If what I suspect is true and the woman in this article was triggered by this man and it resulted in her violence, the consequences she's dealing with now may not be perfectly fair, but they're happening. If she had the capability and self-awareness to remove herself from the bodega, sure, it would've been inconvenient and unfair to her, but the consequences of knifing a guy and going to jail are way worse.

That (and that history of mental illness) make me think they should've put her in a mental institution. The woman is not well. The attention from this isn't going to fix it either, that's for sure.

I mean, there's video of her getting beaten on by a couple of men either earlier this year, or last year. She said before the whole knife incident that she'd kill the guy if he laid hands on her, because no one is going to ever do that to her again. "Never again" is something I've heard from many other survivors. This woman has a responsibility not to be around others who might trigger her (especially while she possesses a knife) but I feel like that's the survivor mantra.

And I feel like she's not getting grace that I would get in her position.

Now I love sharing what my fiance thinks when stuff like this happens, and his opinion is, she shouldn't have escalated it, she was wholly wrong, 15 years is dumb. It's hilarious that we have very different reasoning and the same conclusion.

I think if you were all up in someone's space screaming at them, there's a certain level of expected spit contact there just from talking, right?

Which is another reason you and I wouldn't be in this position. Gross!

But I do want to clarify I don't think she should be able to just like, walk away scot free from this. I just whole-heartedly disagree with people who want her dead. Or who think that fifteen years isn't a long enough sentence. Fifteen years is a long time. People are way too ready to discard people in this country.

He said video showed Hodges hurled slurs at Cruz, and that she only used the pocket knife — which she bought at a dollar store moments before the altercation, prosecutors claimed — after she felt threatened.

Hodges took off his jacket in the video, “the international symbol in New York City for ‘Let’s go, we’re going to fight,’ and rolls up his sleeves and hits her,'” Schuman told the court.

“While he’s still berating her, he called her a f—-t and a t—-y and she spit on him.”

So let me first say, I took that word for word, in the order you see it, from an earlier New York Post article. I hate giving them any attention, but the screenshot of a headline we're commenting on came from a blurb from the same website, as an 'update' to the article I linked. It really shows that ya'll didn't actually read anything, and are just commenting on other comments. They were at a bodega, where she allegedly cut in line. That's what started all this. She was supposed to 'get him fired' when he was off duty? You know how hard it is to get a postal worker fired?

So they're just two people at a bodega. She allegedly cut in line- I can't see her saying she did, or didn't, or where there was any reported camera footage. This dude starts screamin and cussin. She spits in his face. He hits her three times, she knifes him with the knife she just bought next door.

The fact that people are jumping to defend a guy hitting a woman for spitting in his face, because it's "escalating" and disrespectful, but ignoring that it was a response to escalating and disrespectful behavior, is ridiculous. You don't blame the guy who got knifed for yelling slurs first? You don't blame the guy for striking her after getting spit in the face? Why is she supposed to quietly and meekly accept this behavior when he can make her feel unsafe?

A man makes me feel unsafe and then hits me, three times! Three! I should absolutely knife him. I probably should've knifed him after the first time. (I'm kind of a big wimp so I don't think I'd be able to knife a guy, but I for sure would be right to defend myself.) And you know what? I'm a dumpy, middle-aged, short white woman. If a guy hits me even once and I knife him in self defense, and then say, "he deserved it," there are a lot of people who would be agreeing with me.