Depressed?? Being depressed after a breakup fucking sucks, but it’s normal. You eat too much ice cream, are maudlin around your friends, maybe have some ill advised hookups or drink too much, listen to sad songs on repeat, and you get. over. it.

And women should just say “No” if they’re not interested because #Notallmen fly off the handle and kill you when you reject them.

But guyyyyyyys, why don’t abuse victims just leave??

I might be on board if our country was as peace-loving as our allies. As it stands, I would have zero enthusiasm about our young people being required to serve in any capacity for the already bloated and overreaching military industrial complex.

This bill also got voted on basically without them even acknowledging Gillibrand’s proposal to take sexual assault out of the chain of command.

The way this all blew up in Duncan Hunter’s face is absolutely delicious.

yeah, I think progress is not having a draft, personally.

I have mixed feelings about this, but they are mostly about the existence of the draft itself, not about who registers.

Jia,

Her attempts to elide the queerness of most of the dead (and thus why they were targeted) by insisting that the dead were merely “Floridians” and “human beings” was maddening. Oh, so LBTQ people are sex deviants when they want to marry, and child molesters when they want to use a bathroom, but it takes dying to be…

I want to feel anything other than sorrow and hurt, but I can’t. All I’ve been doing is crying. My community is bleeding, and all I can do is cry.

Thanks for this space. I’m having a really hard time with this. I just keep thinking about being in my early 20's and going to gay bars for the first time and feeling so elated to be in such a fun and SAFE feeling space, to really feel a sense of community and to be able to let loose in a way that normal spaces would…

Of course we still have it good. That doesn’t mean it’s okay to be misogynistic toward white women. Just like it’s not acceptable, for example, to be racist toward black men because they have male privilege. And remember that “white women” includes women who are queer and trans, who are poor, who are immigrants, who…

I fucking hate the way that the “white girl” meme has morphed from a tool for women of color to talk about white women’s complicity in white supremacist systems into a way for people to spew gross misogyny under the guise of calling out racial privilege.

Or we could divorce the funding of schools from the property values of where they are located. It makes no sense that School A, enrollment 100 students, receives more money than School B, enrollment 100, just because they happen to be 15 miles (or less) away from each other. Ashleigh and Carolyyn and Aiden aren't more…

It really does show something about this guy that he immediately thought of his penis when he read the name of the column.

Remember, he’s not an athlete who made a mistake: he’s a criminal who can swim.

Re-posting this tweet I saw earlier. I can’t stop thinking about how a woman’s past vs a man’s potential is weighed out in nearly every rape and DV case in the news lately...

Makes sense. The jurors on the Stanford case gave up their time, put aside their daily lives and heard what must have been harrowing testimony. They would have seen photographs and heard medical testimony. It must have been awful. They deliberated and found the accused guilty of a vicious sexual assault. The judge…

“It has nothing to do with her sexuality.”