Christianity is a religion that has lasted for over 2,000 years and has over 2 billion adherents across every continent, where all of the first and most influential communities were in Asia Minor, Northern & Eastern Africa, and India. Scriptural literal infallibility and a focus on pre-marital sex are only ‘very…

Except he himself seems to deny actual sexual or romantic interest in and engagement with men at every point, which is what makes the bi story not track. He’s interested in cultural cachet and perceived boundary transgression, but doesn’t (by his own words, so far) share the lived experience of attraction towards men…

I hear you, and am not out-of-my-mind enraged by Badu’s comments - everyone knows that one Earth mama Auntie who’s always trying to stretch things to the limit with love and peace and sparkles, and it seems like she hasn’t taken too many actions to extend her ideas into the world in ways that would damage it. But…

What a ridiculously uncharitable reading. She explicitly says she cared about it, but noticed new things about the issues when she was undergoing it herself. This is natural, and exactly why we want all kinds of diversity in our representative bodies. She never refused to sign an airport breastfeeding bill - she just…

If she was the only accuser this would be compelling. She isn’t, so unless you have minimum four more sets of receipts it’s irrelevant.

Others have pointed out the dumbness of your point about the acting class, but I’ll add that there are ways to strip and be exploited and ways to strip and not be exploited, like any other job in the world. Your analogy itself makes no sense.

I think it depends on the sketch comic. Andy Samberg did some funny stuff at SNL but never particularly struck me as an ‘actor’ - he was doing it through timing and silliness and writing. Peele though I think was genuinely acting throughout K&P and it’s part of what made the series so special. The way he truly…

Yes, totally on Raisman - but I think of that as a more a message to the children in the courtroom or who may see this on TV who are being abused. After Aly made such a powerful statement about all of the adults who were told who did nothing, I think it is important to say “There are adults out there who understand.…

From the stories I’ve read I think all of those things have been at play the last few years or so, but for many of the adults in the decades before that it really was a “Whatever, he says he needs to touch their vaginas to do treatment good and Doctors don’t lie. Dumb little girls for not understanding how medicine…

I mean, I can see this in someone’s hands being an interesting take for the new thing. I definitely most want to hang out with the Heathers from the new trailer? But the trailer does not indicate they’ve brought that take to a particularly interesting, saucy, or “makes sense to humans who’ve had social lives” place.

What everyone from Chicago says and has said for decades is spelled Chi but sounds like “from shy” or “from the shy.” She’s using the correct pronunciation for the nickname.

My kid is a passionate advocate for naming the currently in-utero sibling “Boat.”

This is true of literally all clothing. Long dresses were invented to keep women modest, mini-skirts to objectify them, pantsuits to prove they could be like men instead of dumb, weak women. Are you a nudist for feminist reasons, objecting to all ads where women wear stuff, or do you just happen to make allowances for…

You mean like all human institutions and systems including fashion, governments, media, and families, religions have histories and cultures of patriarchy?! I guess women should all go live isolated in the woods under trees until somebody fixes it.

I didn’t really know about this story until now, but does anyone know if/why there wasn’t a DCFS investigation and process? Clear evidence that you are bringing your child around someone who assaulted your other child seems like the kind of thing they should have a responsibility to respond to.

Agreed - or at least, can’t be forgiven certainly without amends and total transformation and acknowledgment on the part of harmer, which is rare. I think a lot of folks use “forgive” to mean “let go of, put to bed” now, which can be confusing. Both can be healthy in different ways depending on needs and wants of the…

All of that can be determined by conversation beforehand. If you want people to magically figure out who’s turned out by coercion play and being held against a wall and who’s not by just going for it until they accidentally assault and scare someone then you’re the one asking for mind reading, not the enthusiastic…

If you aren’t sure if someone wants to have sex with you but you want to, say “Do you want to have sex?” and then listen to what they say. If you aren’t sure if someone wants you to go down on them but you want to, say “Can I go down on you?” and then listen to what they say. If someone all of a sudden starts acting…

The situation described in the article is complex and I think does (among other things) point out a need for women to have opportunities practicing more direct sexual communication, but your take is nonsense and not least because talking about “courtship” and women “harp[ing] on” stuff tells me your agenda came…

I read this totally differently - I thought she was basically saying, I wanted to have casual sex with him, but only after I calmed down, and after he did something to assure me he noticed and cared about about my boundaries. After he did that I would feel safe enough to have the casual sex I wanted to have with him,…