Before everyone goes cheering this, let me point out: the way "pimping" is defined currently makes almost everyone in a sex worker's life a pimp, including romantic partners, roommates, bodyguards, etc. The way "trafficking" is defined includes almost everyone in the sex trade. This is not necessarily making people…

Speaking of MRAs, feminism, and NOW, Karen DeCrow, the former president of NOW, died recently. The Atlantic had a wonderful obituary on her, highlighting her history of breaking with feminist orthodoxy to collaborate with men's rights activists. She defended a man trying to get a paper abortion, she advocated for men…

Keith Olbermann: [reads article]

His Royal Majesty the King of Salt Lake City and Protector-General of the Orem Territories shall not have his team besmirched by this commoner Olbermann!

Please be assured I am giving you the finger 5 times. I only actually have one middle finger but I am intending to give you a gesture 5 times as powerful as a normal fuck you

John Adams defended the British soldiers who shot at the crowd in the Boston Massacre.

Unpopular Opinion: after the exposure of Cambodian Somaly Mam as a fraud, a lot of this sex trafficking reporting gets a bit of side-eye from me. It's a perfect storm of concern trolling - anti-sex right-wingers and feminist lefties both get something from sensationalizing and overestimating the prevalence of sex…

What you're saying seems to assume a random encounter, though. You (the fictional "you" who would want to act violently toward someone) would be less likely to pick a fight with a random man, because the chances he'll fight back and win are greater. But if you're in an intimate relationship with someone, maybe you…

Both, but primarily the first one. When the concept of "homosexuality" started to come about, it was conceived of as a mental illness that made people violent sexual predators. We're all more familiar with the trope of gay men as rapists, in part because men were potential homosexuals before women were, but once…

Actually, there's very little research on intimate partner violence within LGBTQ relationships, but much of the better research on it suggests that rates of violence within same-sex relationships are roughly the same as rates within heterosexual relationships. If lesbians are beating each other up at the same rates…

I saw a bra strap once. Woke up six days later in a ditch outside of Reno, covered in blood and cocaine. Never saw my car again.

Hello, Dr. Levitt. I'm a big fan of your groundbreaking theories regarding humans, so let's see how well they apply to horses: do you think that if we aborted more black horses, we would see a drop in horse-on-horse crime?

one can hardly blame them. it's a common (and not unfounded) criticism of white feminism. do you want to get what the white guys at the top have, or do you want to make things better for everyone? it's hard to fault someone for just wanting all the gold instead of making gold not worth anything.

As someone who actually studies the science of how to teach people, all this common-core hate is bullshit. When we were in school, all we were taught was how to add and multiply, like a cook book. We never learned why we were doing it, and that made more advanced math a lot more difficult than it should have been.…

I'm now a LeBron fan.

I'm still kind of baffled by this. Of all the twisted things that have happened on this show (or in the same episode) I still don't see why the internet is melting down following this episode. I've been reading some comment threads and talking to fellow fans and all I can think of is that the circumstances are really…

No.

"Skip browning meat before adding to your slow cooker"