Yes... as a kid...

Many years ago at the group home for developmentally disabled teens where I worked there was a resident who really, really wanted to go to the best steak house in the city for his 18th birthday. He had behavior and anger issues, but was determined to earn that birthday dinner, and he managed it. So another staff…

When I hand it to her, I tell her, “No charge for the extra blood!” She doesn’t even blink, snatches the package and leaves.

I have never started a conversation that way, but I have definitely shut a few down by saying, “I’m asexual. If I actually wanted to fuck you, I wouldn’t actually do it, because I’d be too busy re-evaluating my whole life and all my choices up to now.”

That only works for men. When they find out a woman has kids they try and fire them.

I can’t even tell you how fucking sad it makes me. You reach a point in your life where you’re like, “what the fuck am I doing this for? what gives my life meaning?” For some of guys, having kid is the next step. Not because it’s what we’re supposed to do, but because it’s the next thing we really, really desperately…

I am a male ally for feminism. Jezebel played a part in making that happen.

bard would be cool

Phhhhh. I’m a professional writer who is female. I work in a genre space people often think of as traditionally male. Everything in this article is recognizable to me, particularly the faux compliments about the “beautiful/lyrical writing” and the part about being conditioned against ambition.

Planned Parenthood donation on their behalf, perhaps?

This post made me laugh out loud, in the way that people do before they start stabbing things without having a clear plan to stop stabbing later on.

I think the best thing to do is be proactive. You know two things at takeoff: (1) this is a long-ass flight and (2) you are trapped in the window seat. So turn to your seatmate (of any gender) and say, “Hey, if you fall asleep and I need to go to the bathroom, should I try to scoot past or would you prefer it if I…

You must be that “certain age.” Tough shit. Not my job to consider your feelings while protecting myself, Mr. Schroedinger’s Airplane Sexual Assaulter. Quit scolding the laydeez about how we need to tone shit down because YOU are a nice guy.

congratulations on meeting the minimum standards of human decency and NOT harassing women! good for you! here is your cookie:

This article got me thinking about how men react to someone and how almost everything can be related in their brains as how it pertains to sex.

There’s cluelessness, and then there’s a total and deliberate willful refusal to accept no as actually meaning no, and part of rape culture is definitely all about blurring the lines regarding persistent pressuring of women to capitulate to the male will, which is a deliberate attempt to encroach upon and ultimately…

As a woman who gets pursued by men who won’t take no for an answer: thank you for taking no for an answer. It is frustrating and frankly alarming to let someone down with a rejection and then realize that they simply did not accept your polite/firm rejection and are coming back for more. I’m a non-confrontational…

or maybe, now that’s she’s had what she considered for whatever reason unsatisfactory sex with you, she no longer wishes to continue having unsatisfactory sex with you in future?

As a borderline-asexual, this phenomenon is hilarious* to me. Whatever I’m doing, it’s not a sign I want to fuck, it’s never been a sign I want to fuck, please stop assuming I want to fuck you just because I am acting like an adult human being in polite society.