I hope this increases sales of Sherman Alexie's books. He's a damned good writer.

If you don't see why using someone's semen to impregnate yourself without their explicit consent isn't unethical, I seriously, seriously worry about your life and the people in it.

I can't imagine voluntarily going to a wedding.

I have seen this as well, exactly once in over ten years of dog ownership— from pooping in the house. It may not be guilt, but it's something spontaneous and not directly related to what the humans are doing. Of course, this means it's not testable, so all the people who haven't seen it directly think that we're…

Right - two separate dogs and the same thing. What tipped me off to the accident or mishap was their behavior. My dog before this one was extra mischevious - always finding a stray sock or tissue, or worse, a kids toy, and chewing it messy bits. He's approach me so submissively, and I'd laugh and say "what'd ya…

This doesn't say they can't feel or express guilt. It only says that the (extremely small) study shows people tend to attribute the reaction to guilt when it it was a reaction to the owner's tone of voice. This newer article in the NYT talks about dogs having the sentience of very young children.

Sweet Jesus this hits close to home. Before I met my ex-husband, I had a very close-knit circle of friends, both guys and girls, all of whom I admired greatly. What I think is especially important is that they were exclusively my friends, before I introduced the then-husband to them. I thought, I really thought that…

what lobby!? WHERE ARE PEOPLE SAYING THIS!?

1. Men are fertile every day of the month. They need to be more responsible, as they are far more reproductively dangerous to women than vice versa.

Hey that's your prerogative. I don't give information out to men so they don't call me constantly. Whatever you have to do. Live your life.

Oh, I've heard it too. For some *people,* a condom is a fate worse than death. I've carried lambskin before when a partner claimed an allergy (I still think he's just a lying asshole, but I bought them and smiled sweetly at him while he grumbled and complied). I've also gotten up and just walked out when a man…

I went to a prestigious private university located around 8 miles from the blue collar public high school I attended. One night, there was a huge party in my dorm, complete with a live band. My step-sister came to the party with me. She's a year older than me. At the party, two guys we went to high school with…

This isn't an argument about reproductive rights. That is irrelevant to this conversation.

This isn't rape because that isn't the definition of rape. This is something called reproductive coercion. It is extremely unethical and increasingly illegal (it's criminalized in some countries but not the US). It should be illegal everywhere no matter which partner perpetrated the crime. The CDC reports that…

I wouldn't even care if they thought that if it lead to a widespread campaign on their part to get men to diligently carry and use condoms. But it won't. That'd be too logical and responsible.

So you do not believe men ever come across as entitled, yet you write a comment that is seventeen paragraphs long about how women are wrong to share their experiences in a forum aimed at women, because you personally have not encountered the same experiences?

My 2 cents: It seems like you're really good at asking questions and listening logically, but not so much with listening empathetically in a way where you can truly understand others' experiences when they are counter to your own.

It's not my definition of ally that's narrow, it's how you view your duty as one that is, because you clearly think you can turn it on and off for the things you believe are real regardless of what the person you claim to be supporting is telling you. Can you see now why any woman who may have experienced this didn't…

Some man does something horrible to some woman. There's an article, but nobody gets a direct statement from either party. I come to a site like this one, and there are hundreds of people making claims about the case. It sounds like he's guilty, but I'm not 100%. There are all sorts of things about how "this is why…