I forgot to add another reason that women tend to avoid hook-ups, 4) the fear of being beaten/violated/murdered.

For women: Can you imagine how much more popular one-night stands would be if there were really no judgment for it? I'm confident that I would have slept with 3x the number of guys than I actually have because, yes, I LOVE SEX just like men.

I think many women feel uncomfortable with "hook-ups" because we are socialized to feel bad about it, not because it's natural for us to be prudes. I'm married now (so out of the game) but there were sooo many times when I was single that I just wanted sex but I never hooked up with anyone because 1) fear of others'…

I mean, there's *something* to that, but I'm queer (bi) as well, as well as a feminist, so it's not like I don't realize that society's shaming me around my sexuality is bullshit. I absolutely do. However, I also am fully aware of my vulnerability—I am not a tenure-track prof so I have no guaranteed job security, and…

I'd go see them if I could! Although the former dance team coach in me wants to yell at them "Stop brushing your hair out of your face! Don't adjust your shirt! You leave it alone until you are done performing!" Old habits die hard, I guess.

I wish I could go! Prance on, Elites!

Everybody accused of criminal proceedings yes, excluding diplomats. It is*not* a question of equality here as US has itself agreed to the Vienna convention.

If the US President was strip searched it would be questionable, not because he is a regular human being.As a diplomat the law states that he be tried in his home…

Her strip search was an outrageous violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - and a hilariously counter-productive clusterfuck for US staff based in India. They've already removed safety barriers from outside the US Embassy, they've revoked many privileges, and you can guarantee the police will start…

It's funny cause you can actually believe it would happen. And it's tragic because you can believe it would happen. If anybody disagrees with me, I just saw a magazine with the headline, "Who Will Die First"

Other things the public is clamoring to know:

Most of what I know of the caste system I get from my South Asian peers and from reading Gayatri Spivak, the greatest living feminist, superhero Marxist, and all around genius. I would never portend to understand the fundamentals of India's caste system, but when my Bengali, Pakistani, Nepali, and yes Indian friends…

What a ridiculously ignorant comment from an uneducated Westerner. This lady is a dalit, or the lowest caste and has risen to an important post.

Your apartment has six fucking rooms?!

Who are these people who "celebrate" this noise? same crowd as St. Patrick's day (it's not "the Irish" exactly...)

Note: do you think a crowd of Latino or black 20-something mostly men could do either of those things without being beaten back by the riot police? No they could not.

Really young black men are arrested for…

Fox was right, Santa is White. Boo

Tell me again about how Megyn Kelly was wrong about Santa being white?

Because these fucking douchebags get shitfaced and march down sidewalks in gangs of eight bajillion screaming aowwghyui!! and knocking people out the way. I just had to navigate through these fuckwads about an hour ago at the Union Square subway station and walk home as the were clomping, en masse, in my direction.

It's going to be really fun to ride the subway packed with these guys today.

There's a book called "Virgin or vamp: how the press covers sex crimes, " by a writer named Helen Benedict. It covers how we talk about rape, though, and how we decide who to believe. She portrays the interplay of class and gender that determines which victims get believed and which get attacked with all those…