Anyone else sick of this Cool Girl Feminist Pro Porn angle? You can dress it up however you want, it still doesn’t make women any better off.

It’s good that the industry is getting its shit together, but there’s an enormous amount of amateur content out there, much of it produced by couples who neither have nor want any connection to the industry; they just want hits on PornHub. I’ve seen some BDSM-themed videos that make me wonder just how much consent was…

Yeah, no... The slur “nigger” is loaded with historical context of white supremacy and domestic terrorism. African Americans referred to white people as “crackers”, as in “whip-crackers” to refer to their history as slavedrivers. It’s apples & oranges.

“If someone writes an online article or Tweets at you criticizing your work aren’t they doing the same thing-informing your boss and the world of their low opinion and hoping the internet will pile on and bother you?” 

One of the great things about Twitter is the chance for people on all social levels to interact. I think it’s fair to answer back, even disparagingly, to people who criticize you or your work, even if they don’t do it at you. That being said, more famous and popular people are, I think, responsible for answering…

I knew Michael Che back in 2008 / 2009. He was a fledgling comedian in NYC and attended many of the same open mics I was attending. His sets were unmemorable with lazy jokes about girls and race, but he was quite popular with the mostly dude regulars and I guess well connected. I left NYC in 2010 and moved to LA. When…

I am so saddened to read this, but not shocked or surprised, which only saddens me more. I can say rest in power and that her spirit will live on, which are both true. But DAMN, I can only shudder to think what she could have done if she had a chance to LIVE in power instead. Thanks for this.

Snapchat is not sorry, just sorry they got called on it.

I imagine the parents are a big part of the problem

To me, this is the most unsettling part:

It’s also the “we’re going to walk out of here and you’re going to look like I didn’t just hit you so hard you fell down the stairs” victim-controlling dynamic.

Better wording than mine. I want to be clear: I don’t think she provoked him, but she maybe was thinking she did because that’s part of being victimized.

Yep, she’s trying to keep things from escalating.

Maybe not so much nonchalance but fear. Fear is what I see. She’s trying to go on like things are okay to keep from provoking him again.

I’m so sorry you had to go through such a toxic experience. No one should ever have to go through something like that, and I hope you can eventually find more peace away from the grasp of that horrible person and that toxic environment.

I can only speak to my experience working almost exclusively in Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) departments. The BIE is under the BIA, of course. One dynamic that the report from High Country News does not explicitly state is that in many cases, the administrators are non-Indigenous, with the rank and file being…

Thanks for this. I’ve gone through it as well and basically rid none of the things you correctly suggest, despite having a strong track record and reputation and many places I would be in demand. And I think the reason I didn’t have hope of handling it well was your very first point - I didn’t do that, and I think it…