I don’t know what it is about this new space race that has captivated me so much, but I wept during the launch yesterday. I didn’t become fascinated with space until after college, so I missed that boat for getting involved professionally. But I’m so glad there are people like Elon Musk willing to make the investments…

Hands down my favorite part of any RPG campaign, computer or table-top, is at the very beginning when you get to trade 1d4 blows with iron weapons against goblins, kobolds, and other assorted creatures. #Goblins4Life!

I hear you, girl. I hear you. I can’t even tell you how many people I care about that I was disappointed with — not even because their opinions differed from mine, but because they were not just dismissive of this poor girl but vitriolic — all were convinced that whatever happened, it was clear she just didn’t handle…

This Aziz Ansari story has really shaken me. As some of you may remember (or maybe not, I’m certainly not that important), a month or two ago something finally clicked in my head- that I had been sexually assaulted when I was a teenager by my boyfriend at the time. We were both 16 (plus or minus a year, I can’t quite…

1. We do have a term for it - sexual coercion. It covers encounters like this that aren’t necessarily illegal, but aren’t exactly super consensual either, because one person made the other person feel like they couldn’t refuse sex. When someone is ignoring your attempts to shut sex down, it’s hard to be 100% sure that…

On verbal and non-verbal communication:

It is so real — I was immediately talking about the situation, the coercion, consent etc. on a group text with three of my best friends because it struck such a chord. I’m hoping for more follow-up and discussions.

Jezebel, What Are You Doing? Days of silence on the topic, and then what comes forth is not actually the thinkpiece on sexual coercion and the “ways consent can feel blurring”, on how predators purposefully use bullshit excuses about “miscommunication” to get away with it, about how Ansari is more representative of…

This piece is unreal. I’ve been looking for Jez’s take on this for over 24 hours. They haven’t covered it at all except to say that Babe did it badly. Way to have those tough conversations, Jez

Would it have been better if they just published rumors that just happened to be true? They published a women’s account of being pressured into a sexual interaction she wasn’t comfortable with, and one in which the man repeatedly ignored her cues that she was uncomfortable. That’s newsworthy.

Your comment makes no sense. What are you saying exactly? The director and the stunt coordinator were in cahoots to sexually assault people? The writer would have put the scene in there and James Cameron directed it. A grown woman dancing seductively for a movie scene shouldn’t be in the same category as a little girl…

There are two kinds of people: those who would have sex with the Fish Man, and those who are lying to themselves

This becomes more frustrating when you are in a lobby trying to sell millions of dollars worth of drugs or guns.

Because he’s a predator. He’s spent his life harassing and assaulting women, and threatening them into silence. And now we know he’s also ruined their careers and lives in other ways. He can’t shut up. It’s him against them, and they were never supposed to be strong enough to overpower him.

I’m a married man and the idea of cheating baffled me - until my wife did. Turns out, humans, relationships, emotions? All complicated.

I really wish the left would drop that angle. Even if you don’t want to tangle with the fact that the two consenting parties are an intern in her early twenties and the president, Clinton has also been sued for having state troopers escort a low-wage clerical employee to his hotel room, where he exposed himself to her…

Speaking of Fred Armisen, I was really expecting there to be new accusations about him coming out.

This is what being an ally looks like! Thank you, John Oliver, for using your privilege to hold Hoffman accountable. For any men wondering ‘what do I do’, this is it. You speak up and don’t let abusers get away with idiotic responses.

That’s what scares me most. Innocent kids not being vaccinated due to this crap and dying of preventable diseases, possibly taking other people’s kids who couldn’t be vaccinated due to age or allergies with them. This is the left’s version of that propaganda that places like Fox and Breitbart churn out and is proof…

Fuck this woman. Fuck fuck fuck this woman.