Damnit, Angela

How did the gunman get firearms into Mandalay Bay?? Crackerjack job, security. Lawyers are now accepting clients from relatives of the dead, and the injured. How the fuck did this happen?? I work with a few old insane women, and just yesterday we joked about their mental instability. Not so funny today. 

What happened at the Harvest Festival, was senseless and horrific. And for what?

FOR WHAT?!

It was (not long ago) presumed mental illness occur only in women. Older women. Older women going through, or who had already gone through the change. Menopause makes women who were nutty to begin with, completely batshit crazy. I truly believe this. I think Hillary Clinton, suffers from it miserably. My dad's first wife should be locked up. Luckily she's too damn stupid to be a danger to anyone but herself. 

Be that as it may

The Mandalay Bay, shooter was a man, BUT presently not a known member of any terrorist cells.   

So what was this?

Just another case of mental illness? Is it really that simple? Or is it something else? Something... conditional? 

Remember season 2, eps 3, BLOOD, of the X-FILES? 

??  

With all the social divisions plaguing the nation, the death of Hugh Hefner, was the ONE thing that my girl friends and I debated over. 

I'm at a loss for words understanding Angela's point of view that Hefner is solely responsible for the downfall of women who either worked for him, dated him, married him, and/or posed in his magazine. 

How can you honestly believe... 

Are adults no longer responsible for their own actions? 

How can any woman call herself a feminist, a strong, smart, independent woman, and in the same breath blame a man when things don't go her way? I don't understand this. 

I know you, Angela. you're not a man-hater. 

You can't blame Hefner, if a woman CHOSE to do drugs, CHOSE to pose nude, CHOSE to participate in orgies and other sex acts, and CHOSE to be a part of that lifestyle. The only coercion I believe in, is if she was kidnapped, beat, and threatened with a gun pointed at her head. If none of those things happened, if she got in the car willingly without first weighing the possible outcomes, well then... 

If a woman, an adult with the ability to make decisions for herself, with full use of her hands and legs, gets beat up by a man, and she stays with that man, I no longer have an opinion or care in the matter.  

Did she willingly get in the car and drive to Hef's house KNOWING what goes on there? 

Any woman who supports blaming men for her bad choices, is NOT a feminist.  

There are men I wanted to meet, socialize with, work with, have fun with, BUT the moment I hear bad thing, after bad thing, after bad thing about him, I'm not meeting him, not intentionally. I know it's gossip. BUT there are WAY too many men in the world, with a world of potential, to waste my incredibly rare and valuable free time investing in some guy's bad reputation.    

MAKE BETTER CHOICES. 

I firmly believe (those) men are assholes because women LET THEM. 

I realize women who didn't have positive male role models in their lives while growing up will get banged up more in the process of coming to be, which is why i encourage women to read more, study more, travel more (by foot if need be)... just be self reliant. Educated. Cultured. Keep company with only those who want to see you be self reliant. 

MAKE BETTER CHOICES. 

If (this thing) isn't working for you, look for better. Find better, and leave the old behind. 

People will always insult others looking for the bigger better deal. FUCK THEM. Better just means more suitable. 

From what I see on a daily basis, mental illness grabs more women than men. Men divorce women BECAUSE the husbands intuitively see the signs. If anyone should have seen the signs of mental illness in Stephen Paddock, it should have been other men, or younger women. Someone should have seen it.

While mental illness by itself is not a crime, must we continue to wait until people are murdered to do something about it?