As a straight white male who has been a fan of the Indigo Girls for 30+ years, I find it shame that the focus is on their individual sexuality. Why not focus instead on their charity, their social activism, the way they’ve spoken up for downtrodden minorities, not to mention their amazing songs and harmonies. They are…

If you don’t shed a tear over Amy’s version of “Romeo and Juliet’ on “Rites of Passage”, you have no soul. It’s definitely one of those songs where the cover far surpasses the original.

And what about his overall demeanor? Does he smile enough?

This is one of those rare situations when Donald and I agree, because I would also prefer not to look at him.

Forget the ridiculous third reason for a moment. Why do there seem to be so many otherwise intelligent people who don’t seem to understand that the vast majority of the time it’s not appropriate to act on your sexual impulses? Literally everyday of the week I work with and walk by women that I am attracted to,…

The only people who call women "females" are misogynists, so you're totally right.

Whenever I hear somebody use female as a noun while referring to humans, it is an immediate sign to me that whatever is coming out of their mouth will be deeply rooted in misogyny. I have yet to be wrong.

Emergency pants...should deploy.

Murrell' writing on this matter is superb. It really drives home the sadism of men like this. What do they fantasize will happen if women who know they do not want a developmentally disabled child, or who are pregnant with a fetus doomed to early and painful death can't abort? How does this play out in their hallmark…

Huckabee is way closer to "bubble" than he is "bubba". Dude owns a fucking $3 million house in Florida.

I am that crying baby today. I'm exhausted, PMSing, depressed because I just turned 30 on Monday and feel like I'm a failure at life for no reason, work is taking advantage of me again. I called my mom sobbing and she was basically the older brother in this video all, "Have you slept? Honey, you need to sleep."

I can't lie: I checked out as soon as I hit the word "cuddle" in the first bullet point. "Cuddle" is the "moist" of relationship words. *cringes*

I believe it was Tina Fey who said: "Helen Mirren is not proof that there are parts for older women, Helen Mirren is proof that there are parts for Helen Mirren."

Why is it forced? I hear this argument for why women and POC shouldn't be cast in things all the time and it never makes any sense to me. Just because the media presents white men as the default human doesn't mean that they are. Women aren't some sort of weird anomaly, we're half the population. If Doctors can…

I'm a novelist of the lady-parts-having variety and it astounds me how many guys who I consider friends and who are well-read and have university degrees will not read my novels because they don't read books written by female authors. It's astonishing to me how many will flat-out ask me justify why they should read my…

My sister is getting married in the middle of December, so we actually are boycotting Christmas in my family. There's too much to deal with in regard to the wedding to worry about getting each other presents and shit. We're just going to meet up on Christmas to... good god... enjoy each other's company. And I'm…

She has a cold. Unfortunately, for her, the cure is worse than the disease.

When I was a young teen, I contracted both mono and a nasty case of strep throat. The strep was so bad that I was given codeine for the pain. In my stupor of not eating, sleeping and running a high fever, I took way more codeine than I was supposed to (I think it was 3 teaspoons and I was taking 3 tablespoons) and I…