Good thing no one asked you.

I thought this essay by a survivor from a nearby town was excellent, speaks to both structural and cultural issues:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/a…

There is a real problem with attitudes to teenage and almost teenage girls, when they are obviously a child abuse is considered a terrible crime but get past a certain height or cup size and people assume that she's old beyond her years and any sexual activity is consensual and weren't women married at that age in the…

Seems reasonable that people who overcame the stigma against tallF/shortM couples would be more in love and more committed to each other, so they are less likely to divorce.

Tall men may be, in Weitzman's words, "aware of the status that is conferred by their tallness"—which might make them less motivated to pitch in at home.

That's how my mom uses them. "Emma, you'll never believe it. I just heard the most interesting study on NPR about how 64 percent of girls your age have graduated from law school and are starting families with a nice Jewish boy."

I was setting up a dating profile once way back, and aborted it midway when I read on the website that it would not match up women with men who were shorter than them, younger than them, or who earned less than them. It was like, wtf, when did I get in a time machine to 1950?

PSA: Comparing my body to a house/car and my vagina to lock will get you ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE. It might cause me to smack you across the face, though.

Oh boo fucking hoo. Even if she blew the fucking pope to get the vatican to endorse her game she didn't deserve the shit she got.

No one is advocating removing all violence directed towards women from all games. That's pretty much a strawman position that people who don't want anything to change use to rail against.

I don't know, maybe they could react by saying "there's no way this woman could have given consent in this condition, so this is rape."

I am SO glad to hear that, bc, I was worried.

I saw it less as mocking and more as her trying to following along (in a joking way), but I spent the whole video thinking "Bitch, get out out of the way, I want to see the professionals!"

Yeah... this is one of those evolutionary psych moments where they're just totally free-wheeling speculation. Like, how can I come up with a reason that ANYTHING might be an evolutionary advantage?

I'm no evolutionary scientist, but if women spent most of their days pregnant, and had almost no periods, couldn't PMS just be an accidental biological artifact that was never pruned through natural selection because it never had the chance to occur too often? Because while I can follow the logic of this theory, it…

When I was in college, I covered for a law firm's receptionist when she was out. The firm shared a reception area with the county mental health commissioner, which means that he decided whether people should be forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital or rehab when a petition was filed. Like with Britney Spears…

"co-ed"?

"When the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty launched in 2004, we made a commitment to all women that we would not distort any of our images to create an unrealistic view of beauty. Dove takes great care to realistically portray women by accurately depicting their natural shape, size, skin color and age, thereby…

Back in the 50s America was like "RAW FISH: FUCK NO" and now sushi is like our favorite fine dining.