This happened to my aunt and uncle. They go to New Orleans every year for Mardi Gras, and there's always the "King of Mardi Gras" or whatever and a while ago it was Nicholas Cage. I'm sure you can see already that it was a batshit crazy encounter. Anyway, they always make little coins for the king and so this year…

To Kill a Mockingbird is still so so relevant in so many ways that I bet poor Harper Lee would have thought would be long over by now.

It's a pit bull mixed with a dachshund. And it's just...so...incredible. Much like this woman's ideas on rape. Though the dog is incredible in a wonderful way and this woman is incredible in a "wtf set myself on fire" way.

I briefly thought of checking a news site to see what the official verdict is, then realized I don't care, and just want to say this list was hilarious. And ultimately much more interesting than checking the news to see if ole Mitt is running (or not) (or who give a fuck)

Incredibly, amazingly, a woman without patriarchy-approved beauty managed to make something of herself. What a story.

Nice. But what I love most is the idea of a "condom pinata." Genuis.

Wonderful piece. I'm so sorry this is happening to you.

This is so perfect. Thank you for summarizing what I am struggling to put into words.

Just LOVE it.

That IS crazy!

Yeah, but viagra is different, see, it's for men to get it up, and who could have a problem with that? Not like the pills for the sluts who want an abortion to just have all the carefree sex they want. You understand?

This is simply amazing.

Perhaps then you might be aware of how complex DV is. There isn't a magical point when a victim just "accepts agency in their own lives."

All the stars for this. DV is incredibly complex.

There is so much victim blaming going on here. Sure, perhaps the mother is also a monster, or, more likely, she is a also a victim of this terrible man's abuse. Domestic violence isn't just physical - it's more than likely that he was exerting a LOT of power over her - emotionally, psychologically, financially, and…

Just want to point out that women can and are also implicit in contributing to rape culture. Unfortunately, as we also grow up in it, we often internalize a lot of sexism and patriarchy, and we, just like men, have to unlearn it to really come to grips with what's going on and understand it. I don't think you're…

I think we think the same thing...just have a different way of explaining it. What you said is essentially saying that they are perpetuating a rape culture. At least, that's how I interpret what you said. Lolz guess we can agree to...agree.

and along with that, what about the attempted rape in Birdman? I found that incredibly disturbing. Has anyone written about it???

The thing is, rape culture is defined by a CULTURE that allows and even condones rape, and when you have universities that systematically do not punish rapists and make lives more difficult for survivors, that feeds the culture of our country in general - which is one of not punishing rapists and making lives more…

I read the book in Dutch for an advanced Dutch class in college (for anyone who doesn't know Ali's story, she escaped a forced marriage by walking out of the airport in Germany, where she had a connecting flight from her home in Kenya to her "husband" in Canada, and then made a new life in the Netherlands, learned the…