Can we all just agree that a man indiscriminately beating a woman to death is motivated by misogyny? Even outside of any context, that’s a lot of hate for women.

Yeah, there’s really not too much about that movie that doesn’t feel relevant today. Corrupt cops. Cover ups. Minority scapegoats. Sigh.

This is the first thing that has really resonated with my feelings post-election. I had a conversation with my mom the other day (many parts of it shouting), and one thing she can’t get past is how angry I am. She doesn’t believe that power should be shared equally by all people, she doesn’t think that 💩 will…

Yeah, I’ve always gotten a sexist/misogynistic vibe from Cenk Uygur. TYT did a video of some of my research this year, and it was so “gratifying” when he admitted that my research made “a little bit of sense.”

It sounds like an insult that British dude who thinks that women can just “hold their periods” until they get to a toilet would make.

This was back before I knew I had IBS, so sometimes, I would inexplicably need to poop NOW, but I hadn’t connected the dots as to why. Anyway, I was driving to see my parents, on the interstate, in the middle of nowhere, and the urge hit me. I was about 20 minutes away from the next exit, and there wasn’t a gas…

I’m sorry to hear you had such shitty experiences. I like to think that negotiation and affirmative consent makes kinky people better than average when it comes to respecting boundaries, but every community has its abusive assholes. I’m glad you’re out of that situation, though, and I will send you some internet…

I agree with you, MissCrystal, and thank you for bringing up the point that some women have rape fantasies and they need a way to indulge them consensually (and safely!).

I don’t want to detract from the terrible spirit of the analogy that women consensually reading a book = Trump bragging about sexually assaulting…

These are both excellent points. I agree that consensual intent (leaving aside the creepy creepy actual content of the books) is important. JFC, though, it burns me up so much that this is a conversation we have to have in 2016.

At the risk of being *that person*, this analogy isn’t too far off, since James totally normalized sexual violence within Ana and Christian’s relationship. So...

Agreed. I don’t even know why I waded into the comments. It’s staggering to me sometimes how different the environments are at the different Gawker sites. I’m only being slightly hyperbolic when I suggest maybe some of the more problematic sites should have warning signs. Or just shouldn’t try to tackle social…

As if we believed the Court was “neutral” in the first place.

Ugh, Justice Thomas. I feel like everyone opinion he’ll write from now on will be basically “Scalia said this one time, and I totes agree with it, so, yeah, that’s all I have to say about that.”

Exactly! Why does no one seem to have a problem with the fact that Bishop was so drunk she almost passed out prior to “having sex” with Hickey? That. Is. Rape.

I think it might be giving Disney a little too much credit to be putting in a gender-nonconforming easter egg. To be honest, I came to my current interpretation as an adult, after coming out as pansexual. Little-kid me was raised in a sheltered, conservative context, and wouldn’t have recognized the potential gender…

I always interpreted his learning about her being a lady as accompanied by relief, because I thought he fell in love with Ping, and he was relieved to know Ping was actually Mulan, and thus more socially normative.

She is such a hero. What a classy lady.

This frustrates me to no end, especially as a psychologist (a social/experimental psychologist; I do research, not therapy). Shit like this gives our profession a bad name.

I thought Big was the best fit for Carrie, because they were both pretty selfish, self-absorbed, and could be pretty terrible. I thought Aidan was the best, but definitely not for Carrie. Way too good for her.

Omg, that totally sounds like a guy in my program. His beard has a beard. He recently cut his hair, so it’s only half-way down his back now.