More than that, she seems to be implying that it was the pressure of the trial that caused her suicide, and so the solution would have been to not prosecute him. I wouldn't be surprised if the trial did play a role, but as someone who has seen this play out too many times, it isn't usually the trial itself but rather…

I really don't get the need people have to justify this shit. I have a young, attractive male cousin who teaches high school. His students develop crushes on him all the time, and some of them are quite attractive I'm sure. You know how he responds? Wonder of wonders, he shuts that shit down (in a friendly and…

Oh, I don't think people have trouble telling kids to stay away from adult genitals. It's the adults who can't be expected to resist temptation, because teenagers are just so sexy and seductive y'know. Grown men are powerless before those sluts.

The "hissy fit" stuff with Dave Chappelle is pissing me off. You can think it was a bad way to handle hecklers if you want, but everything I've seen indicates that he was calm and in fairly good humor about it until he left the stage. That isn't a hissy fit, it's a calculated strategy for dealing with disruptive…

I can't speak for the author of course, but I think it was a dig specifically at the MRAs who think this kind of thing is really common and tend to be like NO WOMAN CAN BE TRUSTED EVAR!!!! I think most people are all for men taking responsibility for birth control and helping their partner through pregnancy (which…

I think it's a bit different if you want to be together anyway. I had a pregnancy scare with my partner before we were married, and we decided that we would hurry up and get married if I was (I wasn't, though), because we saw ourselves heading in that direction anyway and so pregnancy would just speed things up a bit.

For what it's worth, I'm the same way. I'm bi and used to exclusively date women, but broadened that a bit as I got older and wound up married to a man. Especially after my marriage, I became much less comfortable taking a leading role in these kinds of conversations because even though I am still queer, I benefit…

I'm very similar to your husband (although for me it isn't waking up thinking I'm dying, it's my mind going all crazy restless worst-case scenario). Music doesn't help, but watching a TV show or movie I've seen before puts me right out. I'm also a very light sleeper, so when my partner moves in bed at all it wakes me…

The sad thing is that a lot of them still think their racism is acceptable even after being called out on it, and don't understand why everyone is being so mean to them.

Or, you know, you could quit judging half the population by a handful of awful people.

Although on the other hand, if you're the kind of person who thinks that is a good idea it's probably better to use a fake pregnancy test rather than actually getting pregnant.

I'm going to answer anyway...I like to work on my laptop in bed (like, not just at bedtime...my bed is super cozy and I think well while in it) and sometimes I need to snack thank you very much. Low blood sugar is not anybody's friend.

She apparently didn't even ride in it, someone else rode a horse she owns.

Yep, I was confused by that and thought she'd ridden. That makes a lot more sense.

Thanks for clarifying that, I wasn't sure from the article. I just saw that it said she showed in local hunters and she doesn't jump, so I was assuming flat classes but it did seem kind of weird.

Minor quibble, but the Hampton Classic isn't a horse race, but rather a show. She was apparently showing in the hunters and doesn't jump, so basically I'm guessing she was just riding her horse around the ring at walk/trot/canter and possibly hand-gallop. It's fun, but not nearly as impressive as winning a race…

Me too. I was glad it was one of those friend-of-a-friend situations, because if I was friends with her in person, I would have had to seriously question my judgment.

Seriously. I had a Facebook friend who posted a similar one at Hiroshima, and it was enough for me to defriend her. Holy shit people, have some basic human decency.

I actually had to go back and double-check, because I thought I'd seen that elsewhere but it's easy to miss in this article. :)

That Macklemore/MLK comparison makes me see red. HOW CLUELESS CAN YOU BE, ASSHOLES? I seriously thought it was a joke when I first saw it, but no, no it wasn't.