Just like child rape, there is only one valid defense to having sex with someone in police custody -

It is not patriarchal to ask good men to stand up for women instead of standing up for bad men. The sad fact of the matter is that men hold most of the power still in many professional industries and if things are going to change in regards to women gaining power, then pervasive sexism and harassment has to stop…

Looks have pretty much 0 to do with harrassment. It’s a power play and it manifests itself that way. I know women and girls who are not conventionally accepted as “pretty” (which is bullshit anyway)—they arguably get it worse than the “pretty” ones: they also get the anger from the harassers, “Why aren’t you hot, you…

But yeah, the dress modestly feminists are about as feminist as the Burqas are feminist crowd, which is to say, not at all.

Honestly, this isn’t any weaker than Lindsey’s article last week asking to reinstate the millennia old patriarchal model where “good men” protect women from “bad men.”

I’m glad you asked.

You know, I asked my Jewish friends about this one once.. they laughed themselves silly at the thought that anyone would believe such things. Its kind of like the rumor people have that Catholics aren’t suppose to have sex unless it is to have children. In both cases, at best, it represents a fundamental…

My stomach was dropping the whole time I read this. I’m so glad she got away from him. I have no doubt that he would have raped her if he had a better chance to do so.

That seems like the least creepy part of the story to me - it’s just a thing people say to mean “let’s get together in a low-key way.”

Yeah it’s weird. We are so used to the absolute worst that admitting you knew and didn’t help is refreshing

Who would have thought that Quentin Tarantino would be the first person to admit he knew Weinstein was crossing the line and he should have been a better person and not worked with him?

I wish it weren’t true but please someone show me the lie

“I think I tried really hard to block it out. But I carried this awful feeling with me,” she said. .... “You have to understand, my interpretation was that it was my fault. I didn’t think of it as rape. In my head, rape was being sober—pull her in a bush, pull down her pants and just ditch her... So I blamed myself. I…

and again I say

He “found” a “stray” purebred husky on the street?

I’m not DaisyLady, nor am I answering on DaisyLady’s behalf, but I FLOVE your Aunt’s story and I flove your Aunt (yes, sight unseen, only based upon her having thrown a ham at Cheney). Ask her please if she’ll internet marry me..

Would it help if I told you the story about my aunt getting in trouble with the secret service for throwing a whole cooked ham at Dick Cheney?

She is an absolute misogynist and it’s baffling that she hasn’t been chucked out at the Times.

I was with you for a minute there, Mayim, I really was. I, too, have experienced probably less-than-average amounts of sexual harassment and catcalling (though not none, of course, because duh), and I’ve largely attributed it to two things: I’ve always been a homebody, and I’m not hot, just regular. So I get that…

Maureen Dowd is the absolute worst, because I think she knows better but she does this shit, anyway. Let’s be real: Maureen Dowd hates women. Anyone who has followed her obsession with Hillary Clinton and trying to tar her with her husbands indiscretions knows that, already. And why people let her keep getting away…