Whenever I check in with the gun-toting nuts on my Facebook feed, their posts are all centered around the idea that gun owners are extremely responsible and competent individuals. After all, they know the technical difference between a rifle and and assault rifle, so only their opinions are valid, right? They know how…

I know, I really have to give up sooner on such things, but there is part of me that is utterly convinced that I just have to find the right turn of phrase and suddenly they’ll be like “ooooooh I get it!”

I’m not referring to porn. I’m referring to the disparate way in which we treat child female victims of sexual crimes versus adult (or post-puberty) female victims of sexual crimes. I have no issue with a lady who is 18+ and makes an informed choice to appear in porn. I’m concerned about the way the justice system…

Part of the reason I could never even hate-watch Glee was because of this guy’s punchable face. I feel vindicated.

Whenever I see stories of child pornography, I’m always kind of baffled at the way we treat preteen girls as victims and vow to get justice, but once the girl hits puberty/is a teenager, she’s suddenly responsible for everything that happens to her and people automatically thinks she’s lying or that her body isn’t…

It could be much worse than you suspect. He may have about 500 pages worth of sumptuous banquets, elaborate silken brocades, repeated character tics, travel scenes, and florid equivocation, all sprouting adjectives like one of those mushroom farms that comes in a box, without even a single plot point worth mentioning.…

The dead end was frustrating, because, as a fat feminist, I was hungry to find out who the original poster could be so I could then eat them.

I love South Park, but I really hate that this season has given assholes like this a reason to feel validated that they’re the real victims here. (Even though they missed the entire point...)

Megafauna is awesome.

This is why I think Trump isn’t sincere. He just says anything that sounds insulting because his demo has an irrational hate of Hill, or whoever isn’t them. They have a mob mentality and he is playing to that.

As an actual Sri Lankan whose social media has been blowing up with this - trust me, he’s unfortunately not alone on this. We are a deeply conservative and patriarchal country. This kind of “outrage” is par for the course.

I’m a full-time shelter worker*, donate my “extra” cash to four different charities (ASPCA, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, The Wild Animal Sanctuary) on a monthly basis, and frequently use my own money to buy supplies for my job that I am not able to be reimbursed for, and have three…

I'd much rather adopt a new dog and give it a home than to spend a shit ton of money to clone my previous dog. We already have too many unwanted animals, so I'm not a fan of this. I also feel the same way about orphaned children.

Except you’re not really “damned if you do” because it’s your job to do a thorough and appropriate examination (and also federal law). Weigh the consequences of treating her vs. not treating her, too.

It’s possible they did a thorough and appropriate examination here, and that an appropriate examination didn’t reveal…

It’s like some people are surprised normal human emotions surface in critical and stressful situations. Even though they're totally willing to excuse a cop who feared for his life shooting an unarmed civilian under any circumstances.

“causing a disturbance in the hospital with her language and the volume of her voice”

That's understandable, and I don't think any criticism of the book has anything to do with women finding their sexual awakening. It's just that BDSM is portrayed so badly in these books that there's no way it can be considered an accurate representation.

That's a good point, and something the New York Times' AO Scott brought up in his review of the movie. To paraphrase: if the book had been more sophisticated, it wouldn't be accessible to the people who would be least likely to feel comfortable asking for kinky sex stuff. It's revolutionary partly because it's so…

Here's what bothered me about this whole thing. I was a Twilight fan fic reader (sue me, we all have a "thing"). There is stuff out there that is 40 million times more well-written and infinitely hotter than this tripe. It just pains me that this is the thing that broke through commercially. Tragic.

Yeah. There was something about it that made it IDEAL for sick reading. Maybe because I only had to use 1% of my brain.