I can’t fucking stand the radical lefties with their ideological purity and conspiracy theories and canonisation of Snowden and Assange and their loony-tunes bullshit. They’re just as dogmatic and brainwashed as the fundies on the right screaming about dead babies and the gay mafia coming to take away their guns.

If you’re a Sanders supporter, and he is a Clinton supporter, shouldn’t you currently be supporting the excutive branch candidate that he thinks will best help him accomplish his legislative branch goals?

... and she was also in high school! By the time she was old enough to vote, she’d switched to the Democratic Party. People keep forgetting/ willfully-ignoring that wee detail.

Michelle Goldberg wrote a piece for Slate a few days ago in which she interviewed a number of conservative, religious women, and came to a fascinating conclusion: Liberal feminists despise Trump for all the obvious reasons, and when we hear Paul Ryan push back and say women should be “championed and revered,” we still…

It’s like being the “cool girl” who’s “one of the guys.” Conservative women get praise specifically for rallying around causes that are seen as (and actually are) the opposite of what is actually in the self-interest of women at large. Same as the women that slut-shame other women to fit in with the men and be “cool.”

I get it. I grew up in a solidly Republican suburb outside a heavily Democratic city, and as high school (and then college) student who was interested in politics, I had mentors who tried to steer me towards Republican causes/volunteering opportunities. The implication was pretty clear — as a woman and as a minority,…

this is why i tell all of my female friends to read the gift of fear. there is a chapter in it explicitly devoted to how men will often “help” women and then use the women’s fear of being rude about it as a way of attacking them. seriously, it is crucial reading.

The world at large wonders why women aren’t more friendly with and accommodating to ostentatiously “nice” guys playing at performative chivalry. It’s because when they get you alone, this is what they fucking do.

Huh. I legitimately expected them to be worse than that.

I always figured she was fighting against the slippery slope and absurd double standard of it all, not the actual content.

.... Why are you surprised she fought so hard against it? She wasn’t trying to hide what was in the speeches, she was fighting against the stupid double standard that had strong undertones of “how dare the uppity lady get paid lots of money to speak to a group who is willing to pay her lots of money to hear words come…

there is a reason that it’s only in regards to sex that suddenly consent becomes this muddy mysterious ineffable concept.

The real issue is that people often want the “gray areas” to be a Potential Yes when any and all “gray areas” should be “if you honestly don’t know, you don’t have consent.”

I’m okay with minimums for felonies involving assaults. (This should be common sense - most people assume three felony rape convictions automatically would equal more than a summercamp worth of jail time.)

i tend to agree. not to mention, mandatory minimums for something like drugs or prostitution are punishing people who are largely non-violent offenders, a disproportionate percentage of whom are poc... rape, on the other hand, is a violent crime, one that barely gets any convictions at all. so... i would imagine that…

I’ve seen that video before. (Maybe you posted it?) It’s cute. But it’s quite recent, not something that dates from Roman times. It wasn’t that long ago that rape was only violent stranger rape, or only rape if the man who had jurisdiction over a woman said so. I remember when marital rape was made illegal. Do you…

it’s really not, though. people like to tell themselves it’s a difficult concept in regards to sex as opposed to in regards to any other activity because people have fucked up ideas about women and about sex. but consent really isn’t complicated.

how we are raising girls is not the problem. the girls aren’t the ones becoming predators.

Til the last line breaks none of us are free.

It’s an ancillary issue, they can exist simultaneously. The fact that sexism like exists in police departments takes nothing away from the fact that racial bias is endemic in police departments across the country and that the police are often overly agressive and combative when dealing with black people. Nobody is…