A rape victim has to consider a LOT of things when they consider reporting their rape. “Color” (race) is an issue, and I don’t think Paulino would want you to feel “sad” for her that race influences, likely, every aspect of her life. It’s a very privileged thing to claim that one’s race shouldn’t factor into their…

What the fuck is wrong with admitting you have sex?

It does matter, but not in the way you’re interpreting it. It can be (more) difficult for black feminists/activists to publicly accuse a black man of rape, because “I felt like I had let my community down and like I was enforcing stereotypes...When [black people] speak we...represent the entire [black] community...”…

There are national standards for Civics education, starting in Kindergarten:

Why are you so desperate to talk about me instead of the article?

“The Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, had announced that 17-year-olds would not be allowed to vote in the primaries for the 2016 election, and Sanders’ legal team got to suing. Before that case could come through, a judge ruled on a similar one that essentially made the decision.”

You shouldn’t be so obtusely…

Uhhh it’s about the election because the Sanders camp filed the lawsuit, and has a strong young voter base?? It has fucking nothing to do with cigarettes or war.

Many many many of the things people are listing as improvements over HM are IN HARVEST MOON.

Hey has come out to say it is one of his biggest regrets.

1) lady Gaga is far more successful and high profile than Kesha

Lol, labels don’t have “assigned photographers”......that’s not how photography works.

Gaga who creates songs glorifying rape with a known rapist/pedophile on featuring, and who does photo sessions with a notorious predator, and who records the rapiest Christmas song for a shit holiday commercial. *You don’t know, how to capitalize on a group of victims, til it happens to you.*

So sorry <3 hope you don’t have to go through the LEEP as well. It does not hurt as bad as the biopsy but the recovery is longer/worse. I was around your age as well, I started the vaccine right after I contracted HPV but before I found out I had it. You should absolutely still get vaccinated, FYI!

You ain’t gotta tear one black man down to lift up another.

It prevents SEVERAL COMMON STRAINS of HPV, but not all of them.

Sorry the clinic and your mother didn’t take better care of you :( the ladies who gave it to me where very careful to make sure I was sitting, didn’t feel faint, etc.

THIS A MILLION TIMES. Fucking nothing has ever been more painful than my cervical biopsy, and nothing scarier than the electrical ‘grounding’ patch they slap on your thigh during a LEEP. I hate needles and the 3 vaccines were way way way better than the alternative. (I got the vaccine after I was exposed but before my…

It was fun sometimes (I dated him for 6 months after that as a way to deny to myself what had happened), but mostly felt like self-loathing.

Why is this post laid out so horribly? Why are the comments not combined?

I know I have said this on Jez before but I will say it again.

I was a teenager at the height of the first run media push of Gardasil. I said, I don’t need that, because I’m not going to have sex until I’m married (dumb, also atheist so what? idk). I went to college, and they were offering it for free. I said, I don’t…