If there is a God, he/she is definitely not in politics. Ugh. This is basically a list of the right-wing lies I find myself attempting to dispel on a regular basis.

Did they just ROW the Duchess past that thing???

Amanda Bynes: NO. You are about to reach the age where you think you understand what your life would have been like had you not been such an idiot in your youth. You want to dull the sting of this process with at least a solid year of boring.

Yep. Professional colleagues sit AT the table together. Usually, when one person is ON a table, the relationship is transactional. It's not cool to situate her like she's there to entertain him and be worried about whether he's paying enough attention to her to tip well.

There are obvious problems with comparing flesh-and-blood humans to either books or one's intangible relationship to a story. The girl in that analogy gets to decide how she is depicted. Books and dead authors have no such opinions or ability to convey them. Books and stories are not literally interactive the way a…

As someone who has composed and actually sent an email that totally came from that place, let me simply add: You can't take it back. And you will want to take it back. It's my opinion that you're wise to exorcise all of that in a better way. You will reach a point where you can talk about it without reliving the…

The "everyone's so damn busy" thing is a bitch, isn't it? My friends come from a variety of jobs and professions, so half the time, somebody has a networking function or organizational meeting in the evenings. Then of course everyone has family time and the hobbies and stuff they do other than work.

Seriously, the wealthy can call me when a tax increase is so egregious it hits their grocery budget instead of their luxury goods spending. When the choice is "one less Prada bag this year" for one group vs. "one less meal a week" for another group, the decision of who should pay a little bit more to maintain our…

Yeah, + $2 trillion in defense spending above what the Pentagon has asked for, with no indication of what that money will be spent on counts as fiscal responsibility... IN OPPOSITE LAND. I also want to know in what world a budget can be balanced without increasing revenues at all.

That's only the case if explicit consent is established while everyone is awake and sober. There is no implicit, "Do what you want with it," about bodies and sex just because there is a relationship, or just because two people have had consensual sex before.

I've read about the "enthusiastic consent" concept, and it would absolutely benefit the young and inexperienced of both sexes. Just get some verbal back-and-forth, kids! Don't have sex with someone who can't talk about sex, because you don't want to be their "If I knew then what I know now" bad sex regret story in…

I raise a half-full glass to your optimism! Now I'm waiting to see if he can use it correctly in a medical context.

I totally agree. It's one thing if your partner happens to start crying during orgasm, but crying from physical pain during sex? There is no "That's what he's into" that's okay in the context of this story. At no point did either say, "I'd like some pain with my sexy." And if they had, there would have been a…

Ding-Ding-Ding! So much this! Just basic consideration for another person should lead a person to stop what they're doing when someone cries out of physical pain. WTF.

Yeah, I didn't sustain any physical injuries, but I was "being had sex with" by my first boyfriend, without a doubt. Every "first" was at his initiation, sustained pressure about it if I said no, and pretty much constant emotional cajoling to get me to do whatever next thing he wanted to do. I didn't do anything for…

I would agree with you if this was about a single event. But since it was within an entire relationship, where they were saying "I love you," and presumably spending lots and lots of time together, it seems pretty clear that she needed to identify that something was seriously wrong, to wonder aloud about that, to…

I actually liked "make funny" because it applies to so many serious subjects about which one might attend a workshop, where someone in the peanut gallery inevitably cracks a shitty attempt at a joke.

Yeah, the article and the original author are clear in their descriptions of the behavior that what was happening doesn't fit the definition of rape, with the exception of the wake-up situation. I don't know why the focus is on "But he didn't rape her, he's innocent." She sustained a serious injury that had to be…

"[I]f you don't feel comfortable communicating with someone, you shouldn't be having sex with them, man or woman, straight or gay, plain and simple." This is a major problem in SO many women's first sexual experiences, and it colors so many women's future sexual experiences and expectations. At the heart of it is…