I hope she has a section on chemical burns.

The nuanced idea of media critique escapes you, doesn't it?

You can't get a show like this made for women. I know a fair amount about the industry and execs and networks do not want to put women in these roles, nor do they want to finance shows in which women are survivalists. The view is that the market they're trying to attract is men, and men would rather watch men do these…

I agree with you completely. Even assuming that book Cersei fully consented to the sex without any coercion, there is still the time when she was not willing to have sex with Jaime, where she pounded against him with feeble fists, where he did not care to listen to her unwillingness. That happened and subsequent…

Your time might be better spent simply being a decent male role model so that boys don't turn into rapey frat bros.

Also, being male gives you a slight advantage in this fight. Men are more likely to say rapey things around other men, and that gives you (and all other decent male-identified human beings) a unique…

Gary Larson had it figured out years ago, without the need for a scientific study.

I know you probably don't mean it, but this sounds like you're saying it's okay for Jaime to have raped Cersei because she's a bad person:

Sure, Jaime's now a rapist, but he's also handsome, funny,occasionally valiant and the woman he took advantage of is a real bitch, so who cares, right? Well, guess what? I care, motherfuckers, so if the people writing Game of Thrones for HBO ever want me to give a shit about Jaime again, they're going to have to work…

I'm not against depicting rape on television as long as it serves the story and treats the victims with a modicum of dignity

I think that was probably the point. You never should have liked Jaime after what he did to Bran, but you couldn't help it. Jaime is like many real world monsters/rapists: fully believing he is honorable and charismatic as hell.

Censorship would be banning it. Criticizing it is just as protected as publishing it. And a lot of the strongest critics of the way women are portrayed in comics are avid comic book fans. So yes, we can talk about the way female superheroes are drawn.

Last Christmas my sister and I were in our hometown. Our dad was sleeping over at his fiance's place for the night, so the two of us decided to invite some people over and get drunk. A lot of people showed up, really random old friends of friends started coming out of the woodwork. This dude that no one really likes,…

I found my favorite porn star's personal FB page and found out his day job is a classical composer, he's mutual friends with an acquaintance of mine, and outside of the shopped leather daddy pornos he looks like a 5'7" slightly ripped unassuming nerd.

Back before Facebook, when my friends and I were too cool for MySpace, we were all on LiveJournal. I had had a nasty breakup with a dude that in retrospect was "not a good guy" but I was heart broken, and I only felt worse when he got back together with his ex... but his LJ was locked from me, but hers, was wide open.

Yeah, not proud of this, but when I first heard about Ashely Madison I thought it was horrible and set up a fake account with fake email so cheaters might waste time and money contacting me. However, I would go on it sometimes to just laugh at the messages with my friends (I was about 19 and in college). Anyway,…

I don't know if it's juicy, but a colleague that I dislike always boasts about his faith and great marriage. He sent me a email one day from his personal gmail account. I guess he forgot to check what address he was sending from .Well without giving it away, I'll say that it was a very graphic sexually aggressive…

I wanted to reconnect with a friend I had a falling out with, so I went searching for him on the internet. Not able to find much on his name, I googled his phone number to see if he still had the same number. I found his number cached on a dead site where he said he was going to fly to California to defend a…

Excellent article that you linked. Really glad you shared it. I liked this quote too "The cult of natural beauty does not, in reality, ask us to strip away our feminine 'fakery', but rather to make our fakery more subtle and more convincing, which requires ever more expertise, ever more specialised products, and ever…

I felt really confident at my job. Turns out that acting confident at my job wasn't a good thing for me to do as a woman because it defied social norms, was perceived as aggressive, and bossy.

As someone who was also raped by a star college athlete, I truly sympathize. There's really nothing like watching complete strangers on the news speculate on the truth of your allegations, or the mother of your rapist saying that you probably drugged yourself. The athlete worship at these colleges goes deep and the…