violence

Anthony Geisler, President of LA Boxing, is dealing with Chris Brown's arrest on criminal threat charges in true eye-for-an-eye fashion. Geisler started a Facebook group earlier this week called, I Want to Fight Chris Brown. (At the time of this post the group had 1,528 members and counting.) He also sent a letter to Brown's manager challenging Brown to step into the ring with him and "see what it's like to face a real opponent."

Is this type of a reaction helpful in any way? Or is it just violence begetting more violence? Share your thoughts after the jump.

At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.

- United Nations Development Fund for Women

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Read more about the history of this day, and include your thoughts, after the jump.

motherfucker.

Why?

Where did this word come from? 

Every time I hear it, a similar jolt goes through my body.