There’s something about how this is phrased that seems off to me. I don’t know what non-traditional means of gathering evidence would make it possible to corroborate most sexual assaults where “traditional” means have failed. The problem seems to be that there is very often no forensic marker to distinguish a…

Is Azaelia Banks aware that there are ways to get publicity as a recording artist that do not involve having beef with other celebrities? Should we send a postcard or something? (I neither have nor want twitter)

I hope those seats go to Democrats, and I don’t care how or why it happens. But if Swift’s action are what does it... I can’t feel any way about that but thankful for the additional political power. Either way I’m not going to feel any differently about her—but then, I don’t hate her to begin with.

The Cure definitely belongs in there.

You say that, but there are a lot of people who don’t think it’s going to happen.

What’s the rent like in these places?

I get that we want the starting position for any discussion of sexual assault to be that we believe the person making the accusation. I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me at least this is a matter of thinking “why would this be the only crime that we would categorically cast aspersions upon when reported?” And…

I did not know that! Holy moly, that really makes my point.

How is, “he will play football well and help them win games” not one of these?

To me, if it’s non-consensual it’s rape/sexual assault. I think that that might even be a good place to start with educating future generations of men: if you can accurately describe some sexual activity as non-consensual, it’s sexual assault. Full stop.

None of this is true. Trump inherited a fine economy, and Obama deported more people than almost any other other President (and certainly more than any President in the past two or three decades).

Also a guy—is your understanding that nagging or whining at a woman until she says ‘yes’ is rape? Shitty and pathetic, sure--but did your indoctrination into dating/romance in our culture call that rape?

The Noble Renard said:

The scholarly texts quoted and excerpted at the link you provided seem to discuss a somewhat different phenomenon than what the Noble Renard was describing—or at least, the Noble Renard seems to include a wider array of behavior than what is discussed in the blog post you posted. The conduct described in that blog…

It’s the natural byproduct of reducing consent down to simply “Not saying ‘no’” or (slightly better, but still piss-poor), simply “getting to yes”.

What’s the precedent for large scale social change involving an itemized list of behavioral standards?

And men know this already.

There is conduct currently considered to be in the “gray” area of acceptability re- sexual/romantic interaction, that some would like moved over into the “actionably unacceptable” area. Not everyone who feels this way is going to agree as to which conduct needs/should be shifted over, but the fact is that the…

Even if you think Buruma is wrong and deserving on some punitive action for publishing what he did, does he deserves to share the same fate as Gomeshi, who stands accused by 20-something women of sexual assault?

Tell me one example each of literature, comedy, and pornography, that you enjoyed in the past and that is now unavailable because of feminism.