Things sure have changed from the one time in the 90s that I tried to go from natural blonde with two years of dyed black hair to bleach blonde in a day. I had a 9 am appointment with a hairdresser who was a social acquaintance. We were at her salon until 11 at night. She cried by lunchtime, then cried again a few…

Jeezus, where is that child’s sense of wonder? If this had happened to me when I was a kid it would have taken all my parents’ strength to hold me back from joining those bears. The kid’s mother is the only one who seems to appreciate this experience the way it should be appreciated.

That can certainly be considered child abuse, but it no longer counts as a crime against the dog.

Yes to all of this. I saw her on the first night in Chicago and though I’ve seen her - and been moved by her -before , this tour felt different. Maybe it was because it started raining in the middle of the show which made her have to change choreo and wipe makeup out of her eyes as she sang, but it felt so very…

I saw her for the first time here in Minneapolis last month. I took my husband for his birthday. I guess I should have expected it, but when I told my coworkers they were all totally incredulous that he’d want to do that for his bday. I was like “you mean see the greatest living performer of our time? What are you…

I honestly do not understand the people who feel personally victimized by these ticket prices.

Even begging and pleading are, ultimately, threats. “Do this or I’ll sulk and not love you!”

When I read the headline I was thinking of the “coercing” being in the form of begging/pleading, not in the form of threats.

Yes! And it’s not just publications, it happens all the time. Recently I walked out of a concert by Alestorm because the lead singer kept saying shit like “we’re not here to hit on your girlfriend”, like, “you”, the fan, must be a straight man who may or may not be here with “his girlfriend”. There were so many women…

Quite possible.

In an online survey about sexual activity and attitudes, more than half the men who played an intramural or intercollegiate sport reported coercing a partner into sex. Of the sexually coercive behaviors listed on the survey, including “I used threats to make my partner have oral or anal sex,” almost all met the legal…

I mean, it’s almost like, stay with me here, that men like to donate money to charity, but they don’t like to have their donations coerced out of them by charities they don’t want to give money to. They want to choose when and who they donate money to. So they can like to donate money, even really, really like to…

“(1) women like sex but (2) not when that sex is coerced out of their bodies”

It is men who need to hear again and again that they are responsible for their own sexual agency- that it is up to them not to rape as opposed to being up to women to protect themselves- but perhaps trying to correlate these attitudes with sports participation muddies that message. Rapists are rapists because they…

I don’t understand why it is our responsibility to take men by the hand and EXPLAIN TO THEM how NOT TO RAPE.

Not only did the WSJ write about the study, it offered sex advice, too?

I agree. Why should these articles be address to women. Men need the education

Because it is 2016 and men still need to be TOLD these things.

...Are they not addressed to men because (most) men are the ones who need this shit explained because women are already aware of it?

“Rarely are researchers’ findings so satisfying. Women may want more sex than their husbands or partners think.”