1. This is really awesome news and I'm going to follow the story and really hope I'll get to feel the way I felt when Elizabeth Warren won and not horrible heartbreak.

I joined a new mom's group through the local hospital after I had my second child. It was a really great group for a lot of reasons but could definitely get heavy at times when the moms, usually first timers, described how depressed and overwhelmed they were feeling which was often compounded by a lack of support and…

I grew up as the daughter of a wonderful, proud feminist mother (who always has an "Uppity Women Unite" bumper sticker on her car) who was extremely proud of me when I moved to NYC, got a good job, worked my butt off and bought my own apartment in Brooklyn. And then I married my husband and decided to be a stay at…

It's pretty hard to read a lot of posts if they're extreme no matter what side they're supporting. I don't believe anyone in the US has ever been sentenced to die for the crime of rape as opposed to murder. And I don't think the crime of murder = the crime of rape, but it's frustrating to hear people talk about…

I have to admit I'm kind of confused reading your response. Are you implying I said they should burn in prison forever? Because I didn't say that and I personally don't feel that way. I feel they definitely deserve their sentence and view the lifetime sex offender status as even more fitting than the 1-2 years…

I think the discussion of how the defendants came to think what they did was okay is a very important one. I remember hearing how one of the witnesses, prior to seeing the girl unconscious and being fondled, had stopped a friend from driving while drunk but said he didn't intervene with the victim because he didn't…

I'm sure there's many celebrities I failed to mention. The fact that so many people signed a petition to allow Polanski to return to the US freely sickens me.

They made their own big important statement through social media by mocking the girl online where anyone could see, posting humiliating photos, and bragging about what had been done. If they had no problem letting anyone they knew discuss it through texts, twitter, etc. without regard to her privacy, why should…

As for ruining their life through social media, the defendants and their friends had ZERO problem putting naked pictures of the girl and her name our there on social media. Please, please explain to me why anyone should treat them differently?????

That's a really good theory. And when there are female characters it's so often the Madonna or Whore complex where women are either pure or evil. And if a woman gets raped, she's not 'pure' anymore so it's easier to think less of the woman (for some people). While I love the fictional characters of Hermione and…

I've been trying like most people on this site to understand how there can be so much empathy? sympathy? for Mays and Richmond. And I think back to cases like Kobe Bryant and the Kennedy guy getting accused of rape and the public reactions supporting them and I don't think it's because most people believe nothing…

Based on their statements, I have a smidgen of hope for Richmond that he's understanding what he did to the victim and can possibly accept that the sentence, the registration as a sex offender, and the lifetime problems he will incur from this are something he deserves because of his actions alone and not because the…

While Bella is not my favorite female character of all time, I see a lot of feminist traits in her and I don't mind chalking up a lot of the non-feminist stuff to the fact that she is very very very young and still figuring her life out and also finds her first (and last) love which causes many people of both sexes to…

I tried to explain it to my parents who love the show that everything bad that could possibly happen happens and then it gets even worse. And they're like, how can the books be good then? And I'm like, that's just how good the books are. Bad terrible no good stuff happens and you just want to know more.

I am so excited! And not excited in the way I was waiting for The Walking Dead to premiere because I knew I'd like some of it and be bored and frustrated by a lot of it but excited in the way that I know 99% of it is going to be Awesome!!! Maybe even 100%!

I know of this site obviously and xojane. Are there other female oriented sites you frequent and would recommend checking out? Thanks in advance!

Thanks. I decided not to comment further than saying that I do indeed understand how an increase in taxes every month, although small to some, can mean a huge difference for many families especially in this economy. I'm just going to ignore her political posts from now on and keep to things there's no disagreement…

I got in a fb fight with a friend over the payroll tax. She considers herself a feminist libertarian who dislikes Obama (definitely not a racial thing, started with the Hillary mocking during the primaries and since then I feel she looks for things to dislike in him - some valid, some maybe not). She posted about…

I agree it sounds like the poster has a small chance of finding a woman with those exact traits, even smaller he'd find her and then she'd want to be with him too. But it's his right to find those traits attractive in someone. I found it wrong that many of the responders seemed to be taking it so personally. Some…

But if the profits from girl scout cookies help finance a great organization for young women, the calories don't count as much, right? #thecharityaffect #thingsiwanttobelieve