Ugh. Goddamit. Just keep your fucking hands to yourselves. What the fuck is wrong with people. I’m 40 years old and have managed not to grope or otherwise touch people in an unwanted fashion. What the fuck is so hard about that? Just fucking stop it.

Huh, my favourite magician has always been Harry Houdidn’tgrabmyass.

Is it wrong that I’m really, really enjoying watching shit burn down all around me? I guess that makes me the left-wing version of Steve Bannon but damn, I’m enjoying watching everyone squirm and waiting for the other shoe to drop (this is clearly spreading from Hollywood to the rest of the country; can’t wait until…

Presidents are in a prime position to coerce women or casually assault them, like the scenario Lind describes. I’d venture a guess that Obama and maybe Carter (he seems like a decent dude) didn’t engage in that sort of behavior. The others? Probably all of them did it on a regular basis.

Makes sense. when I’m depressed and crying in front of the mirror the thing I want most is to be erased from existence.

Like all women, I love to be told to smile more but I could never figure out how to really work that into my daily routine. Until now!

Agreed. If I knew them IRL I wouldn’t think twice about the pairing. People just seem weirded out that the superhero guy is dating the interesting smart girl.

Um, excuse me - if this is allowed to continue, how will pharmacists be able to shame women/deny them contraception? Won’t anyone please think of the ultra-religious pharmacists?

look if i were hot enough to post pics of tea and teeth whitening paste and make a billion dollars, i would.

Before a bunch of dudes jump on here and say, “BUT YOU SHOULD JUST BE HONEST WITH THE GUY!” A lot of the times we can’t, because every single one of us has some story of rejecting a guy and getting yelled at or worse.

I’m too old to stop my peers from forcing casual hookups. I have a son and a daughter I’m trying to teach better, though.

One thing you can do - call it out when you see other guys doing it. It takes so much to go against the grain, but it also takes just one guy speaking up sometimes to diffuse a potentially bad situation.

I’ve been the guy on the other side—using women’s reluctance to give a hard “no” as an opening to keep pushing.

It certainly did me. It has forced me to re-evaluate a lot of my previous interactions with women. It has also made me realize I need to be exceedingly proactive in teaching my son about consent, boundaries, accountability, etc.

You worry about hypocrisy. Don’t. It is the most false standard of all false standards. The only way to be perfectly correct in every action you do is to do absolutely nothing ever in your life. I personally relish being called a hypocrite. It may be the degree in philosophy (All hail the tu quoque fallacy!), but it…

I hope this makes some of those “good men” try to remember the things they have forgotten. I hope that realizing you are an unself-aware part of the solution is still part of the problem. It certainly had that effect on me.

193 more women

So many people feel that their vote doesn’t matter. In some cases they may be right, due to gerrymandering.

I’m so sad and so tired.

Just like child rape, there is only one valid defense to having sex with someone in police custody -