"The military calls it 'keeping your head on a swivel' and it's probably the most important thing you can do to ensure your safety." So.... literally live every moment like I'm an Army Ranger deployed to Afghanistan? Also, those guys get paid.

I'm tired of this. We focus on teaching women not to be raped; now we are starting to focus on teaching everyone around a potential victim to stop her from getting raped. There is still so little that is actually geared towards the criminal themselves.

"Why don't women just tell us when they're not interested????" -Reddit

Don't worry, though, there's no such thing as rape culture, and women should feel totally flattered and not at all threatened when men hit on them.

What a tragic thing to have happened. I hope her family can mourn and find peace.

"I have a man, I can't talk to you"... Obviously, this is an awful story of misogyny however you cut it. But on top of all that, I still wish for a world where saying "I belong to another man" wasn't the first thing we were all trained to say to get rid of harassers. It's not like, if she were single and told him to…

I actually am. I've written two things for the main page, and writing for the sub-site effectively counts as a main page writer. I mean...they ARE paying me to do this, so...

Holy shit, she's 33 years old?! Wow. She doesn't look a day over 2. Good for her.

"Gonorrhea is the second most popular STD in the States"

I don't think they were hating on Rhimes. Just praising her in the most tone deaf and condescending way humanly possible.

The WHO makes recommendations with developing countries in mind, where women don't have access to formula or nutritious baby food. The point is, women shouldn't feel pressured to have to breastfeed for a year and there shouldn't be this movement of women trying to one-up each other and making women who work or don't…

I know right where you are coming from. The two best parts of my day are when I drop him off at day care and when I pick him up. ;)

PREACH. So many of my friends seem to make their mothering decisions based entirely on a mix of guilt and fear and not based on what they want/think is best for the kid. I have not had that problem so far, which leads to awkward conversations like:

Sort of related to this, Elisabeth Badinter published an article a while back about how these new types of helicopter/attachment/earth mama parenting - but particularly motherhood - are undoing the advances we've achieved in the last 50 years and basically holding women back but more perversely, through guilt and the…

New-born babies = WTF do you want with me? Now you're free! Bootstraps! Get off My Lawn!

I bet they had a lot of people spending a lot of time crafting that statement and I think what they came up with is really great.

People's childhoods were ruined by warning about racism...

It highlights something poignant: being a member of a minority has costs, like it literally costs more in money to live somewhere tolerant. Because tolerance is desirable, like leafy trees and good schools. It costs more to deal with the anxiety you face coming from a mixed race family- more in time spent with…

I commented with this on the first article, but as a biracial girl raised by a white mother, I feel for this family. It is no fun being raised by a woman you look nothing like. My mom did the best she could in our overly white town, but it sure as hell wasn't easy, and we heard some nasty words from all sorts. No…

I love this series so much I could scream.

Yep yep. It's possible to have multiple feelings about stuff.