I heard they edited out the part where he rolls up to a big "CRIMEA" and moves the A to the front.

There's more to life then the male gaze.

At this point I don't think it's at all unreasonable for her to admit and recognize the crimes of her husband. I think it's shameful for her to go on television and publicly say that she thinks the victims lied for the money especially when speaking of her apparently "not whole" child. I can understand shock and…

Again, folks, this is what evil looks like: a nice neighborhood lady who allows boys to be raped in her spare room. No horns, no tail. It's your regular 'nice' person, who, being subject to the right incentives ("respectability," patriarchy, "charity," vanity, superior attitudes for the recipients of your…

And then when I do meet someone who isn't a fucking pig, I hate that I tell them all this and they don't believe me. OR, they act like they're great allies for women because they...OMG...gasp...actually KNOW a woman who was once assaulted. And I'm like DUDE, come on, I don't know many women who weren't.

Also— all the pain and rage and ridiculous experiences in this thread have been more heartbreaking to me than the original essay. It's like a boil gets lanced whenever women finally start talking about this with each other.

That could be her internalizing the belief that rape has to do with appearance, especially if your the friend who every guy in the bar comes up to and talks to, or who gets stared at all the time while your friends complain about how they feel invisible and wish they would get that type of attention, it does feel like…

You ladies are absolutely right on. But on the flip side, the problem with being pretty and being assaulted/catcalled/harassed/stalked is that if you do wind up going to the police, you're liable to get some extremely mind bending comments. My favourite? "Well, you're an attractive woman and you can't blame a guy…

I am all about Sansa/Margaery. Or Sansa/women. I don't want her near any men after all the shit she's been through.

THIS A MILLION TIMES. I refuse to watch the show because of that rape scene. They ruined my favorite scene in the books that CREATED THE PATH of my favorite character and they didn't even THINK TWICE about how differently she would have turned out if that was the case. I HATE THEM. The original story of how Danaerys…

I'll throw in my 2 bits as a long time Harvard participant observer. I've lived adjacent to the campus for over a decade, know lots of people of all different ages who attend or have graduated or teach, and worked at different levels in Harvard admin including the Law and Business schools.

Harvard is still extremely…

an ID tattoo is a very quick simple procedure. This dog was undergoing major surgery and the tat was kind of complicated.

First, I wish that you would show a little more awareness. Black people are not even the primary consumers of rap music (if we were, it would not sell anywhere near as much as it does because we are such a small part of the population. have you ever been to a concert for pretty much any established rap artist? …

Harvard actually has incredibly generous financial aid. A friend of mine from the former Soviet Union attended for approximately $1000 a year. The rest was subsidized.

Again, how many Harvard kids do you know? I'm sure some of them are well-off, but I'm sure that some of them aren't. Harvard likes to give these things called "scholarships" to students who excel in school but don't come from rich families, which works in the university's interest in having a socioeconomically diverse…

YES. The better-endowed the school (which usually means the super-fancy ones), the better the chance that they'll be willing to give you a full scholarship. If you're a poor student who does really well in school, you'll likely have a better financial situation going to an Ivy than going to a middle-tier school with a…

It's a shame that more people don't know that financial aid to institutions like this is an option, since many talented kids might never think to apply and just go to a state college (which can also be great, of course, but options are nice). I think the "no loan" policy was started at Princeton, but then others…

I go to a small law school in the upper Midwest that is not known nationally but understood in the region as being "the good" school among two other options. The summer after my first year, the school had some sort of camp/leadership program for undergrad students of color in their senior year who were thinking about…

Edit: Also, the comments on the Facebook post are priceless. I particularly like the Thurston Moore Facebook Truthers who think that the page is maintained by his girlfriend, since the person who writes all the status updates is seriously so much dumber than people think Thurston Moore should be.