Women forcing themselves to carry on with painful or unwanted sex because “well we’ve already started so I can’t say no now, I’ll just tough it out” isn’t rape, but it’s emotionally damaging beyond “bad sex”. It falls into this middle area where women feel like we can’t say no and just grit our teeth and try to tough…

This. I’ve had to learn how to say “I don’t like this anymore” in the middle. Fortunately my partner is far more attuned to this than I am—he senses I’ve stopped responding before my brain even catches up and stops immediately for a check in. He checks in a lot during sex in general.

You don’t seem to realise that maintainence sex isn’t about forcing non consensual sex. We aren’t debating the legitimacy of marital rape, here.

Or because I fall on the asexual spectrum and literally do not feel physical attraction for anyone but my husband, but please, continue with your asexuality erausre and continue to make broad, sweeping judgments on my relationship.

Pushing the idea of open marriages on someone who has already clearly stated her severe anxiety around the idea of her partner leaving her for someone else was more than a little tone deaf. I am demisexual and monogamous and and queer and I do get tired of how open or poly folks can make a lot of judgments about why…

This. I’ve worked shitty, no benefits customer service. I have never felt compelled nor entitled to physically attack people.

Um, count yourself lucky that you don’t know what it’s like to literally not have an extra $25 (and in my XP it’s at least $50). Poor people, including students like me, DO have to fly sometimes. Like, because I live across the Atlantic and don’t have a hell of a lot of choice unless it means never seeing my family…

Maybe she cut you out because you say things like “she decided she’d been raped” and call her assault “some kind of sexual encounter” and hint it wasn’t real rape because she was drunk.

This is ridiculously untrue.

Really? For one thing, I don’t think of other women as “sluts” and I don’t date men who think of women as sluts either.

This one leaves a bad taste in my mouth. You physically intimidated her, refused to let her leave, and vandilised her car with a violent gender slur. I wouldn’t be so proud of myself if I were you. Laura isn’t the one who comes off the worst in this story.

I think (???) they’re supposed to go with high-waisted jeans ala 80s style that have made a comeback, at least over here in Glasgow (where fashion taste runs to vintage).

These clothes don’t even look good on us, either (the thin, flat-cheated bunch). I mean, maybe once in a great while if you want to keep your arms lower than a 90 degree angle at all times and also simultaneoisly both wear a bra and not wear a bra—but generally? No. And that’s, like, my body type could just barely…

Less a condemnation of men and more a free pass for them to do as they like. I know a lot of men who pull the “lol I’m a guy that’s just how we are!” card as a way to never feel or be held accountable for their own behaviour.

Organised atheists are known for sexually assaulting women at conventions, though, so...

Not shoot them, for one thing.

Seriously? They are children! Who were trying to help a friend being attacked by a white guy with a gun. HE is not only the adult in this scenario but the police officer who supposedly should know how to behave and especially how to de-escalate a situation. That’s literally his job. Don’t put it on the kids.

I’m really uncomfortable with the idea that I should have to pass a mental health screening before I’m allowed to have children. I have PTSD, anxiety, and depression. That doesn’t mean I’m incapable of caring for a child, but it does mean that a patriarchal health system screening me could easily take away my rights…

“You reap what you sow” —no woman deserves to be in an abusive relationship for any reason.

She probably stays because he’s probably abusing her.