She was trying to air his business, not shame him. It’s 2016, get with it, yo!

Saw this fair counterpoint to that on Twitter:

I see a correlation between sexualized violence and this sort of racialized violence that I can’t quite put into words. I’ve tried many times on this thread and deleted them all. Like when women are raped for entertainment and slaves are raped, beaten, tortured for entertainment.

Anyone in any STEM field who says there isn’t a problem with sexism, harassment, and even open misogyny is either part of the problem, an ostrich, or simply a liar. It’s absolutely pervasive. You can start an impassioned argument by asking a group of engineers whether MRAs outnumber feminists in any particular field.

So Charlie Sheen didn’t tell the women he was sleeping with he was HIV positive. He pressured his girlfriend to have an abortion so she wouldn’t have a “retard baby” with HIV. He quit taking his HIV medications for awhile because he apparently knew better, and now it turns out he didn’t even give the heads up to his…

“Except I’m in a movie that’s representing a whole other group of disenfranchised people who have no voice in the world and this movie means so much to them.

When I was in college this one dude I had known for a couple years fucking bit me on the ass when we were out at a bar a couple times. Each time I kind of laughed it off, although it hurt and was kind of mortifying. He apologized later via text and I didnt respond. I wonder if he knows how shitty it really was. And I…

The sad truth is that I have forgotten more stories like this than I can remember. I, and most of my girlfriends spent the better part of the late 90's/early 2000's working in and around the music business and most of what was described above would have previously been referred to as an average Tuesday. I was…

I will never understand this idea that multiple women are just telling the same lie about a man. How low of an opinion must you have of women to think that they actively seek to conspire with strangers to “bring down” innocent men, and meanwhile face their own reputations probably being destroyed with bullshit…

“To be clear, while my conduct may have been inappropriate, I have never drugged anyone or engaged in that type of behavior.”

It’s interesting to me that R Kelly thinks he broke the cycle of abuse because he didn’t replicate the abuse he suffered to a T. Because he doesn’t abuse 8 year old boys, he doesn’t consider himself an abuser. I imagine this is part of the compartmentalizing that victims/future abusers do to survive their abuse and…

I was one of these women. I talked to Beth and Judy last night. It was fairly recent. I was hard to talk about.

The Flint water scandal feels like it should be bigger news. A governor and his hand picked city manager poisoned, and possibly killed, people in the name of “fiscal conservatism.” This should be the leading story on the nightly news and on cable news until Snyder is arrested.

Personally, I did not view the series as something that was meant to make viewers believe Avery and Dassey were innocent. I think its point was more to challenge our ideas that verdicts reached in trials are impenetrable, and to challenge our romantic notion of a justice system that is blind to both wealth and…

Hold on just a second. We all know that diversity happens in front of the camera, not behind the camera.

Count me among those who will grow old filled with bitterness and anger, and a stomach full of vodka infused fruit loops. Seriously, what lies we tell ourselves, and what empty pablum we use to conceal the truth of what we all know: growing old is terrible, scary, and comes with the promise of more. Would I rather be…

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DAMN good points. There need to be better roles offered to POC.

I feel simultaneously happy and nervous as fuck