Let's make this happen! Honestly, when the problem is the OP and nobody can dismiss it, maybe bee-bombing it will get the mods' and writers' attention more quickly.

Oprah has some amazing bees for you to eat.

I'm having very similar thoughts as yours. There is truly no way to know anything other than the fact she was made utterly miserable. Let's just say it was an awesome sexual experience among free people—that doesn't mean that becoming public property of the team in the hallways was worth any enjoyment. Let's just…

EXACTLY! Neither women nor feminists are responsible for the context in which such invitations are perceived as threatening. The woman who feels uncomfortable and says no is the one who "knows better," and wins at not getting herself raped. #ihatetheworld

Yep. Changing my name after I got married was a HUGE pain in the ass. It took four afternoons off work, on two of which I had to drive an hour one-way to get to the nearest Social Security Office, and neither the people working there nor at the DMV had their shit together. I was a student at the time, but I worked…

THANK YOU. This guy is also ignorant of the fact that the police where he lives enforce the laws of that city/county/state, and therefore may be totally ignorant of the laws in other cities/counties/states nationwide. Even if his town does have some bullshit ordinance doesn't mean it's constitutional, or that it…

It should, but nobody is paying attention to it, choosing instead to bicker over whether or not it's easy to obtain a state-issued photo ID. This whole conversation is an indictment of Americans' ambivalence about fundamental rights, and ignorance of what's needed to register and to prove what voting district you…

There is no U.S. law requiring that anyone have a form of photo ID on them, and there is no requirement that your police department "figure out who you are," unless they are actually arresting you for a crime they suspect you've committed. Even if you're driving without a license, they just give you a ticket and send…

Why should it matter who "we want" to vote? Voting is a right, and those who care to exercise it should be able to do so, period. Given this nation's history, one should forever and always be suspicious of proposed barriers to voting. The percentage of homeless who are veterans alone convinces me that there are a…

Again, there is already a cap on beneficiaries. I actually bothered to try to understand the parameters of an existing system. They cannot receive this help for more than five years, whether they are consecutive or not. If things get better, but you need help again, there is no restarting the clock. That's a…

I'm so sorry for what you're going through. I have a friend with a reconstructed breast from cancer she had around the same age as you, the scars on which force her to be very, very selective in choosing necklines and swimsuit tops. She gets pretty fed up with the pink-washing every October, and especially loathes…

Why the hell does it matter whether a child was conceived through consensual sex or rape for it to have sufficient need for nutritional support? I suggest you go read what's ALREADY required to get TANF, which only provides 60 months in lifetime benefits, in any given state. Both TANF and SNAP recipients have to be…

I would MUCH rather actually discuss the problems with this administration than abortion and rape, but in my experience, Republicans don't want to. Plus their candidate wants to increase military spending by billions of dollars, to 4% of the GDP, so Obama doesn't even have to be reasonable to be more reasonable than…

"[R]ape and rape culture is not endemic to Amherst College – it is an insidious problem faced by universities across the country."

EXACTLY. What is a "bad experience"? That could mean anything: arrested because the party got busted; given a doped drink; raped in some room; groped on the dance floor; beer intentionally spilled on a light colored shirt; called fat and/or ugly and/or a whore and/or a prude. But we're supposed to tolerate all of…

"Prosecute," especially in this type of context, is MUCH easier said than done. You don't just go to your local police station and report an assault by a U.S. dignitary on foreign soil. They can't do shit. You would probably have to go through the U.S. Justice Department via a D.C. office. The odds of not being…

I posted this as a comment to the first Jez report on the situation at Amherst:

I love this girl! I want to go back in time with you and applaud her.

I remember, around that same age, boys would sometimes have a magazine or catalog—something full of glossy ads—and would flip through it, and slap their hand down on whatever model they thought was hot and say "MINE!" Sometimes it was a "claiming" of different body parts on the same model. I was completely baffled…

The same kind who asks the dorm to provide her with a readout of her child's id card building entry and exit swipes, and/or to disable the card after a certain time at night so that her child has a "curfew." True story (more than one, actually), as told to me by a friend who worked the front desk at several dorms…