@mass romantic: It depends on the program and the department. My program is 5 years (English Department).

@metermaid: I don't think your comment is extreme at all. I think it's perfectly logical and, if there were any sense in this world, perfectly moderate. Extreme views of abortion are things like, "No abortion, never, not even to save the woman's life at the expense of the fetus," or "all women should have access to…

Reading things like this bring up a scary sludge of primordial rage that I can feel beating in the space where my collarbone and my throat meet, kind of like I'm going to throw up and kind of like I'm going to cry and mostly like I want to become an assassin and kill this motherfucker.

Oh my god I miss Wegmans so much. It hurts to go to Super Stop and Shop bullshit store.

@VanMundegaarde: Liar.

@moonlissa: I feel like he and Trudy are the perfect boomers. Like, so put-upon and thinking they're so Liberal with talking to the Negros in the elevator, and thinking they're the Good People and everyone else is Bad, and having a weird relationship with race in which capitalism kind of trumps overt racism. But…

Yeah, he's right. Gay sex, alcohol use, tattoos—these are the things the US needs to be concerned about in regards to the armed forces.

@Samus-Aran: V. nice. Hearted so hard.

@VeryCapable: Veronica and Betty?

Jokes dealing with rape can be funny. But rape jokes—which I consider jokes that make light of rape, or pander to rape culture's stereotypes of rape victims or rape—aren't.

@Grant Wood: As Lucymaybee pointed out, you don't understand what the phrase "rape culture" means. So go learn about it and then get back to me, because I don't have the energy to teach someone else about misogyny today. Rape is not rape culture; one doesn't have to rape someone to contribute to rape culture.

@Doddibot: Creepy sexualized leering is passive sexual harassment.

@jenivere: Did you read my comment? It was kind of like this: "If [such and such], then [such and such]." If he's nearly crashing the car in his attempts to ogle the ladies, then he isn't "noticing an attractive woman," he's leering at her. I have been merely looked at by many men whose looks have been more than…

Oh, also: You do realize that by perpetuating the myth that men just "can't help themselves" when it comes to beautiful women, you're teaching your daughter that men and women are fundamentally different creatures. Men can't help themselves around women they find attractive—not even fathers can control themselves…

@donnashowl: Holy shit, your father made you watch porn? I'm pretty sure that would be categorized as abusive by most social workers. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

@Doddibot: I love how you made passive sexual harassment the same thing as healthy sexuality.

If you "almost crashed the car" while looking at that woman, you're not looking. You're leering. And it's creepy even if you think it's complimentary, and the women notice it and it makes us uncomfortable. Your leers contribute to rape culture.

@Ayepecks: Well, there are two issues here. First of all, is the idea of desire—people wanting to participate in these highly gendered activities. We have to ask ourselves why we desire to adhere to gender roles, where those desires come from. Surely it isn't a coincidence that most little girls prefer cheerleading to…

@BringerofthePain: Yes, ok, we all get to choose our choices and unless the law threatens to kill us we are each completely free to do whatever we want and there are no other mechanisms impinging on our freedom and I hate fashion and high heels and make up and fun and coolness and style and individual expression and…

@BringerofthePain: Yes wearing a miniskirt to the office is unacceptable. But two things: