Maybe automatically assuming casual sex is “taking advantage of women” should be left in 2015. I doubt the women these guys slept with were all starry-eyed ingenues who were hoping they would get married to their idols and had their dreams cruelly shattered. A good proportion of them probably just wanted to fuck a pop…

I was raped as a child. More than once. I’m in my 30s now and I’m OK. I’m in a healthy, fulfilling relationship, I have good friends I love, and I’m content with my life.I’m over it. A shitty thing happened when I was a kid and I have risen abov it. My rapist didn’t have the power to control my entire life. I hate the…

She is not being held responsible for shitty things her husband has done (rape, quite probably). She is being held responsible for a less shitty (but still somewhat) shitty thing she has done, which is refusing to believe rape victims.

Well, a partially working phone is a lot more than Jesus ever did for me.

That assumption certainly is problematic. And when women are expected to be sexy, or evaluated based on their appearance, in fields that have nothing to do with sexiness, it is important to criticize that. But when a magazine explicitly devoted to sexualized imagery decides that they want to get more sexualized to…

I’m from India, which was a democracy (most of the time) during the Cold War, but we definitely didn’t consider ourselves part of some “free world” team along with the US. We (along with a number of other democracies) were part of the Non-Aligned Movement, refusing to ally with either the Americans or the Soviets. And…

> In the past decade, 50 million women and girls have been killed in India (source: Petals in the Dust documentary).