I went to a Labor Day festival thing in my husband’s small Indiana hometown. There was a very popular vendor booth there that was occupied by many people buying confederate flag items and commenting on their god-given right to do so.

Oooh! I feel the same as you on the former, but I absolute hate being “spanked” in bed. I resent it, in fact. (Although I’m happy to do the spanking... probably related. Ugh. Gross.)

Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski and Jonathan Franzen. If your man’s favourite writer is more than one of the aforementioned Male Demons, you need to take a hard look at the choices you’ve made and the paths you’ve taken.

So, if a guy’s favorite author is Bret Easton Ellis I know to back away.

The Calvinists call it “Cage Stage”, because a cage is where new converts need to be put to safeguard the sanity of those around them.

Kirk Cameron.

I totally agree, this whole story has me spooked because I know dudes like that are everywhere, lurking behind the cute smile at my local coffeeshop...

I am right. There. With you. I was a barista in my 20s, and exchanged a few emails with jared rutledge when I was considering moving to Asheville from Raleigh. He seemed really nice and offered to show me around town and even offered me a job at waking life if one became available. I could’ve very easily been one of…

“[B]ut there are women who slept with them and were discussed on the podcast and blog and that must be crappy for them.” Yes, I’m sure it is. My full heart goes out to them.

Perfect quiz, picking between options I don’t fully comprehend or remotely like.

National Geographic had a really interesting article on him last month. It seems like he is genuinely very liberal, and also a very smart strategic thinker. He knows there are a lot of old guard, conservative political forces at play, and it seems that if he wants to make real change he has to placate them in some…

This is part of why the “why don’t you just turn us down nicely!?” narrative pisses me off. Not because men can and will get violent, though that’s also an issue, but because SO MANY men position it in a way so that they aren’t obviously asking you out. They just make it clear that they want to date you through…

Couldn't resist.

It just feels like there’s some gap in their (I hesitate to call it) reasoning between this scandal and no more abortions, which is what they seem to think it will result in.

You know those anti-smoking ads that show the horrendous after effects that smokers go through later in life? Why aren’t we do that with people who didn’t get vaccinated (cause your story would scare some parents straight... also, my condolences, and if you’re in Oregon anytime, you can have a drink on me)?

It never ceases to amaze me that these Teahadist idiots keep bringing up the Nazis; they should be doing everything than can to AVOID mentioning them. I think the comparison is unbelievably crass and insulting for any group that isn’t actively engaged in genocide, but since these morons insist on bringing them up…

Superman is what we should all want to be. Batman is what libertarians actually want to be.

Have YOU seen it? Generally it is unnecessary to make “statements” about the sexual violence of certain eras, since we still live in an era where sexual violence happens around the globe on a constant basis. Perhaps we will feel more generous about these scenes when similar things stop happening to teenage girls at…