I also am really not getting how her suffering is any less valid than the Mongolian woman being beaten senseless by her husband down the street from her hotel, or even what the two have to do with each other. Is it geographic proximity? Because you seem to be saying it is the fact that she sets the story in…

There is white privilege (complaining about not being able to buy the right kind of olive oil because the import store is out) and there is having a real experience abroad (giving birth on a hotel room floor). Would you be less offended if it had happened in Kansas City? There is no rule that says other countries…

Having been in a similar situation (my first baby was stillborn at full term), I think this does have implications for others. This kind of loss is an exceptionally lonely thing. I had family and friends and yet I felt a very stark solitude in the months after my daughter died. No one understood what it was to be…

But the thing is, jock culture takes a bunch of young men who are not yet fully matured and constantly tells them that they are better than everyone else. Jocks are given so much leeway to act out and are allowed to almost literally get away with murder because of the kind of importance we place on sports/athletics in…

i hope cyntoia brown one day also receives her freedom. she was abused by a pimp who forced her into sex work at an early age. she eventually killed one of her johns (read: child molesters) out of fear and got life in prison.

I am as feminist as feminist can be, and (and, not but) I am pro death penalty in cases where the crime is incredibly horrific (Jyoti, the S. African girl who was gang raped so badly she had her all her fingers broken, a leg and several ribs broken, and the rapists cut open her stomach and put glass shards in it while…

The Avaaz summary might not show the utter ruination that accompanied this barbarity. When this happened, Liz's family had to sell all their possessions i.e. their poultry (4chickens) to try and get initial medical treatment. As it wasn't sufficient, they then had to lease their land to try and get more money when…

As someone who is pro death penalty I do plenty of wishing for us both.

Raped and dumped in a latrine.

Okay, can we kickstart a fund for a mad scientist who will invent a ray gun that will make rapists and their enablers the world over see a woman as a person who shouldn't be raped and dumped in a fucking latrine, oh my god—like, honestly, at this point I don't know what else to do.

Never. She looked so good in Mistress....