Crossposted at My Left Wing

Back in the 1990s I researched maquiladoras in Mexico, and learned such companies as Fisher Price, Hasbro, and Mattel were using sweatshop labor there, so with the Season of Joy upon us, I became curious about who makes most of the toys now. Much of the information available online is dated, but I suspect still representative. This is what I've been able to glean:

Crossposted at My Left Wing

I am pissed that Democrats don't adequately address the issues of poverty, or the REALITY that HELL-FUCKING-O, not everyone is going to Harvard even under the best educational system. Not even if we were to radically change our priorities.

Reports of rape occur at the rate of 78 per hour nationally, which averages out to 1,872 a day, 56,160 a month, 673,920 a year. In 82% of documented cases, victims were raped by someone they knew. It is estimated that only 16% of rapes are reported. 1 out of 3 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.

Every year at least 1 million women suffer nonfatal violence by an intimate. By less conservative estimates, 4 million American women experience serious assault by an intimate partner during an average 12-month period.

For men, these are abstract statistics. For women, these numbers quantify the reality of our experiences.