If she wants to be a lesbian she can self-identify as one. For all we know she wants to be bi. She posts a picture with her girlfriend. All we can determine from that is she is not straight. She could be anything under the queer umbrella, and there's nothing wrong with saying that we should not label her further until…

Since bathrooms currently are not guarded, there is no particular reason that a predator needs to feign being trans in order to access one. If there is nobody else around (which seems like a prerequisite for the crime) then the most male presenting cis male in existence could walk into the women's bathroom and hurt…

You might want to read up on womanism or womanists if you like the concepts of feminism but not the fact that it ignores so much intersectionality.

The "don't talk about vagina" thing tends to be about using more accurate language. Not that different from when feminists fought for the suffix -person to replace -man.

Exactly. It's sadly true for MANY trans women that I know. I don't have those same experiences really. And yet, I'd be the one allowed into the TERF conversation on the topic of gender based violence with the belief that my biology can offer more to the conversation than your lived experience.

I'm not sure that anyone can answer better than Kat did. That you can totally have a right to your views and you own spaces, just don't be surprised when plenty of women don't want to join into those spaces because they exclude trans women.

Let's say that there are are 100 potential trolls reading this at the moment. If you use IP blocking that won't stop them from using a proxy or masking, but that might take two or three minutes to set up. And maybe 10 of them decide that they'd rather go somewhere else and fuck around than go through that. You make…

I was in Hawaii when Dog went to Mexico and found Andrew Luster (the Max Factor heir who drugged women and videotaped raping them). This was long before the TV show but the local news was all over the story. Dog has been going after high profile bad guys for years. Even if it is for publicity, he gets stuff done.…

The homeschooling support group here recently had a massive split when the crunchy homeschoolers got into a fight with the Christian homeschoolers over the direction of the organization. So, it is happening, at least in larger areas.

The key to the issue is if you think the story is 1) Factual and 2) Germane to the review. Let's run through the options.

Yep. Sold for 6 figures and will be out in the Fall.

It is. The fanfiction was called Master of the Universe and was an AU where Edward was a powerful business tycoon. Some other Twilight fanfic has been picked up and adapted since 50 Shades, and a One Direction fanfic about two of the singers in a relationship just got bought to be turned into a novel (again, changing…

I was really excited when Dornan got the part because I think he's going to play Grey as the sociopath that he really is in the books. I find the crazy eyes to be very in character. Not sure if the masses will agree. (The again, I think that any 50 Shades movie should be made as a thriller/horror film about a woman…

I don't know about Flight, but it was one of the inspirations for the movie Fearless with Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez which is a little gem of a film that move people should see for the great performances, especially from Perez as a grieving mother who lost her young child on the flight. (I won't give away the…

You know, I went to a funeral once for an attorney who was an advocate for disabled children. He didn't have any kids of his own, but the church was so packed with people who were touched by his work that they people had to stand because they were out of seats. Those people he helped remembered him.

The store could be fined (with the fine going to the state, not to the employee) or could lose their license and have to close down. But this individual employee probably won't get a big settlement or payout.

Maybe. But actually, weirdly, as I read the Texas Administrative Code on the issue (http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readta…) she might not have been breaking the law. Employees who are sick are told that they must tell someone in charge, but not that they must stop working. The person in charge is supposed to…

I think it would be a stretch. There was no physical contact from anything we've seen (the manager didn't slap her to make her work) so a battery is probably out. Assault is possible but the sticking point is if threatening to fire the employee would be considered to be considered to "cause apprehension of harmful or…

I don't think she will. This isn't wrongful termination because you don't need any reason to fire someone. As long as they weren't firing her for a protected characteristic (i.e. they really fired her because she was a woman but made this up to justify it) then it isn't illegal. She probably doesn't work enough to…

As a teenager my Mom told me and my pre-teen brother that she was glad that we weren't overly attractive, because it meant that people couldn't dismiss our ideas based on our looks.