Well I guess that ' s because we were the first to use postage stamps the Penny Black was introduced in 1840 . So back then postage stamps had to be British . When other countries joined in they put their country names on their stamps . Same logic with the USA and web sites . Americans sorted domains by whether they were commercial , organizational , government , or military , and didn ' t feel the need to include a country name , but then when other countries got in , they did , so you see . co . uk and . co . nz but you very rarely see . co . us . <| sep |> Probably the Skin Album Preview posted in like March <| sep |> I was going to post this from a throwaway , but seriously , fuck it . I disagree . He had no recourse available to him . My mother frequently threatened to kill me and my siblings if my father initiated divorce . She had a long history of domestic violence calls and CPS interviews that resulted in nothing . There was zero escape from my situation for anyone involved . Calling the legal system sympathetic to her would be serious understatement , This is not a poor me post , I am posting it because I know there are hundreds of thousands out there with a similar story . Our justice system and society tends to turn a blinds eye to female abusers and , sometimes , even belittle victims of their abuse . These abusers might be mentally ill , they might have had a traumatic past , or the thousands of other ways this could be rationalized by outside viewers , but the same could be said of the monsters that are their male peers . This will continue to happen until we , as a people , take female abusers seriously . Until it does , the primary victims will continue to be the most vulnerable members of our society children .