Ah, yes, the total “freedom” of teen girls. Wait, what?! Literally at no time in history have teen girls been particularly “free” people. The idea that teen girls have some special freedom and joie de vivre is a pernicious and sexist idea that has its roots in sexualizing teen girls’ virginity.

Bingo. Caitlyn now claims to be “ready for a normal relationship with a man” after extensive sex reassignment surgeries, according to recent interviews. Many homophobic countries are still pro-trans (India and Iran to name a couple—Iran actually forcibly transitions homosexual people), because they view it as the…

When it comes to things DIRECTLY INVOLVED in reproduction, the calculus is very different.

Don’t we all sorta know this already? If a huge majority of women were into giant dicks and not normal-sized ones, one would assume evolution would start sorting that out. “Normal” size seems like it’s probably the size that is best liked, because if it wasn’t, one assumes women for thousands of years would flock to…

Still UTTERLY baffled by the absolute refusal of anyone in the media to refer to the relationship in Diary of a Teenage Girl as “rape” or “sexual assault.” Because it IS. Even if the girl “wants” it, having sexual relations with a fifteen year old is RAPE. This gets called out whenever it’s a story in the media like…

It’s just thoughtless. It doesn’t think of the poor at all, except to give a main character some “underdogness” and show that all the people around him are trash who don’t deserve him.

“Aware of class issues”? Hahahaha. Yeah, this was so clearly written by an upper-middle class kid trying to empathize with the poors that it angered me from the first moment I read it. Twenty-story blocks of trailers people live in? Uh huh. How do people get up and down them? Are you aware the first skyscrapers of 6-7…

Downhill cycling. Look it up.

The people “at his school”? For a fourteen month old? Yeah, no. “at his daycare,” maybe.

Why the FUCK do women think they and their husbands should contribute to weddings equally? There’s an income gap between men and women, but more importantly for something like a wedding (which requires a big ol’ chunk of change), there is a HUGE wealth gap between the sexes. Women have less than 1/3 the total wealth…

It’s from Veep, on HBO!

This sounds so much like physiognomy and phrenology.

Another thing for women to have anxiety over. Perfect. Just get them navel-gazing enough, obsessing on exactly why they're doing what they're doing, and soon they'll have less enthusiasm for anything reality-based on the outside. This kind of delightful pseudoscience is even CALLED A HOROSCOPE but people are…

"Daddies" and "babies." Yes, I'm sure it's all very ~*~empowerful*~* and feminist.

As a full-time writer of romance novels, I can assure you that we do know what fisting is, and we also know that words sometimes have more than one meaning! Sometimes more than two, or three!

Most women still don't know about the continuous use diaphragm method (CU). It works better than many hormonal methods, according to studies all over Google Scholar. For more information on how to do your own birth control, fertility enhancement, or abortion, check out wombofonesown.wordpress.com — it has resources…

When people are told they are subordinate and stupid, they have a more difficult time completing intelligence test tasks. People forget that for thousands of years, women were essentially owned by their husbands in a LOT of places, even in the best circumstances—it takes time for intergenerational trauma on such a…

Best title for a Highlands romance in the kindle store right now: Rogue With a Brogue. How can you not love a story with a name like that?

For me, understanding that date rape could be less traumatizing than my stranger rape *but it was still rape* was incredibly liberating. Understanding that even though one rape was "less bad," it was still a violation and still something I could grieve and understand as a trauma was something I needed. This idea…

I've been raped by a stranger and I've been date raped. Date rape was MUCH less bad, because I DIDN'T THINK I WAS GOING TO DIE. In fact, it was so much less bad that it was hard for me to conceive of it as rape for a long time (because the stranger rape happened first). So, uh, I guess I'm not seeing what the…