I completely agree that our existing legal system is sometimes the wrong tool for addressing rape, sexual assault, and various forms of sexual misconduct. As I see it, the aims of any system for addressing sexual assault should be (a) preventing it in the first place, (b) healing survivors of assault, and (c)…

Title 9 and Athleta (for cute, sporty swimwear), Oiselle and Gap for running. But my favorite running tights actually come from Champion’s C9 line at Target. Somewhat related tangent: WHY DOES ANYONE MAKE RUNNING TIGHTS WITHOUT A DRAWSTRING WAIST?? Hitching your pants up every 50 meters is not a good look.

Yeah, I’m thinking that in almost any situation except one where Sheen was on the show to announce his HIV+ status, we’d be cheering Bieber for having the good sense to stay away from this woman-beating, abusive narcissist. As much as we may joke about Bieber as being the real-life version of Joffrey Baratheon, I…

It’s like Polar Seltzer (if you’re from the northeast), but sold in cans and amazing flavors. Almost makes you forget that you’re getting no nutritional value and no caffeine in your soda-like beverage.

Go for it, unless you want soap. Dove calls itself a “beauty bar” or a “body wash” instead of soap in the same way that McDonald’s calls its sweet, frozen beverages “shakes” instead of milkshakes (hint: there’s no milk in there).

Go for it, unless you want soap. Dove calls itself a “beauty bar” or a “body wash” instead of soap in the same way…

Love how this ad tries to go gender-neutral (“If you and your significant other both use Dove products”) but then assumes that you and your significant other are a heterosexual couple. Or at least that you use “his” and “hers” versions of the same damn body wash. I get that Gawker needs the ad revenue from sponsored…

Love how this ad tries to go gender-neutral (“If you and your significant other both use Dove products”) but then…

The fact that the antenna has to rest on the outside, not inside the vagina, would be a major no-no for me. Have you ever had a tampon that was positioned not-quite-right, not quite high enough, and you could feel it ALL THE TIME? That’s what I imagine this would feel like. Also, I know they say it’s in medical grade…

Not necessarily—a lot of these policies are designed specifically in ways that allow racist practices to continue (such as the disproportionately harsh punishment of children of color in schools) while offering seemingly “impartial” rationales so that they don’t look racist. Mentioning those policies isn’t necessarily…

Maybe - I’m certainly in favor of protecting kids from some of the consequences of their bad decisions while they gain more ability to think about cause and effect, and to take care of themselves (i.e., not sentencing juvenile offenders as adults), but I also think there’s a difference between that and thinking that…

Even though this kid’s politics go against my own, I’m uncomfortable with saying that kids have no idea what they think about things, or what their politics are (replying to you, but also to a lot of the responses you’ve gotten in this thread). All of us learn and grow and change our views on things in big and small…

My favorite dance movies (yes I’ve seen enough to have multiple favorites, don’t judge me) are ones where the ladies are the relative outsiders: Center Stage (ballerina with “bad feet” and lacking technique gets with more established male dancer/s) and Strictly Ballroom (guy who’s been dancing competitively forever…

Um, I’m all for reminding folks that other groups were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, too (gays, Roma, people with disabilities, etc.). But is it really helpful to start the Oppression Olympics here? Like, who suffered worst before dying in pain and fear because of horrific state-supported bigotry? I get…

Yeah, I’m not really sure how far Kim Davis’ lawyer has thought this Nazi comparison out. You know who was persecuted and killed in Nazi Germany (besides Jews, of course)? Gay people. In this analogy, whom does Kim Davis represent?

Whatever you might think, there is pretty tight supervision at these boarding schools. There are specific rules about opposite-sex room visits, rules about sign-in and sign-out with the faculty members who live in the dorms, etc. I’m not saying there aren’t opportunities for rape—of course there are—but I’m not sure…

As a professor at a school whose student body looks a lot like this, I completely agree—some of these girls are *really* hard to tell apart. What’s fun is that our course rosters display students’ ID pictures, most of which were taken when they were incoming first-years; it’s fascinating—and a little sad—to see how…

You see this as an attack *on* Bernie Sanders. I see it as a movement that’s trying to get candidates for political office to pay attention and be better allies. It’s telling Sanders (and the other candidates) that they have to deal seriously and outspokenly with racial justice issues—not just be the least terrible…

Obligatory “glad I’m a lesbian” post.

Both my wife and I grew up having different names from our moms (one kept her maiden name, the other divorced and remarried), and it hasn’t scarred us or caused any difficulty. When we married, we each kept our own names, but if we have kids I’m happy for them to take my wife’s last name (we considered a combo name…

Hmm - I don’t think I saw the discussions on Transparent (I watched it somewhat later, after a lot of the early online commentary had died down), so I’ll take your word on this.

Basically, conventionally beautiful, cisgender, non-disabled white actors get to play their own demographic and everyone else’s, too.