Actually, this is a pretty damned good idea (albeit super confrontational and also vaguely horrifying because violence/dead bodies). The same way the Satanic Temple attempted to use the Hobby Lobby ruling to counter their corporate overreach, I think the lefties (or, you know, the just-not-bizarrely-fascists), really…

I already have 2 female roommates if I want to get laid.

*Empathy.* I know what my experience is with self-regulating/self-policing as a cis female, and I often think about the ways people of color generally, and black men specifically, must have to constantly self-police/self-regulate.

Totally nailed it. Same phenomenon, different angle: Be Pleasing To White Dude Who Is Probably Racist And Sexist To Varying Degrees Because Of Ingroup/Outgroup Behavior. This is why diversity in media representation is so, so, so important. People who are regularly exposed to "other" types of people more readily…

My "position" is that high school students who straight-up admit they raped people should be suspended from their football team until they get their American Constitutional because-yay-everyone-loves-the-freedom-of-our-free-country fair trial! I have all the courages to accept that! Because it is totally reasonable…

No one ever said anywhere "remove the trials from the menz" you insane trolling fuckstick. So sure, for the sake of assuaging insane, paranoid idiots and/or trolling fucksticks, I'll say it as slowly and as clearly as possible: ALL THE PEOPLES GET FAIR TRIALS FOREVER AND EVER. We clear? Or do you want to continue…

I'm sorry to hear you were in a sexual relationship where you felt conflicted. You asked why she sent you conflicting messages about her consent, and she told you HER response meant "No means try harder." As in, she was explicit with you that she likes to be dominated in that way: that's consent to that behavior,…

Are you unclear about how someone admitting they continued to fuck someone while they were saying no is rape? Are you misunderstanding the way confessing you raped someone is a confession? Is it difficult for you to comprehend how reasonable people would want this person suspended from a high school football team…

I cannot with the Cro-Mag-level idiocy, and I will not, and those douchelords need to stop wasting good air with their piss-poor excuse for thinking. Just dismissed someone who seriously said "no" doesn't make it rape because sometimes women "playfully" say no but mean yes, so therefore, someone saying "no" just can't…

She said "no," and he admitted she said "no," but...he decided it was reasonable to interpret a direct, unequivocal "no" as pleasure? How is that not a straight-up confession? Let's guess how the rape apologists will do those mental acrobatics: "I mean, she didn't say 'Stop putting your penis inside me right now,…

So lemme wrap my head around this: Some people think it's normal that a bunch of anons regularly get together on the internet to chat about how to ruin people's careers, "joke" about raping/murdering/stalking/harassing specific women, and generally talk like paramilitary extremists who plan "operations" and scream…

Hell. Yes. To everything you said here. Cheers, dear. Burn that mickey-fickey down. <3

I book-nerdy love this comment. Barbara Ehrenreich rules hard.

Telling some truth! Hallelujah! We still insist on framing women's unpaid labor as "career choices" they make for their own "work/life balance," i.e., doing unpaid domestic labor/reproductive labor that benefits (often) male partners. (Apologies for the hetero-specific framing of partnership here, but that construct…

This is just the most WTF statement of this whole WTF everything. I am sincerely and totally baffled about why affirmative consent is hard for some people to understand, or why some people are angrily—angrily!—speaking out against framing consent this way.

Not sure if age is the determining factor there, or the advanced degrees. Just glanced through a study from 2003 that suggests women and minorities who obtain MBAs are less affected by the wage gap than those with undergrad degrees only.

For all the people yelling "But wimminz make the babiez and make the choices to do wimminz baby-makings and all the hours of parenting so of course they get less money, no wage gap, checkmate!": Dudes clearly also make their choices about baby-having and family-making with those women, and people of all kinds of…

Wow! Cataleptic rape boners! Because "edgy"! And boners! Nothing sexier than ill, helpless, corpse-like ladies, amirite? This dude should definitely keep telling us about what kind of writers the world needs. /s

Just to keep score: We have Colorado's Amendment 67 and fetal lawyers in Alabama, fuckery in Texas and—hmm, general fuckery in lots of other states. You know, doctors generally aren't allowed to harvest organs from corpses without prior consent. Because a corpse still "belongs" to the person who used to be alive but…

Teenage me owned/loved everything Christopher Pike ever wrote, ever.