I agree it could come across that way, but I think she might have been trying to make a more complicated point. Not, “women must do this to avoid harassment” but “growing up in an industry where female sexuality is treated as it is in hollywood, this was the only way I knew to preserve myself.” She also says in the…

Sarah Polley’s piece was much better than Bialik’s, which was awkward, but I didn’t walk away from that thinking she was blaming people for their own assaults. It mostly seemed to be about how the fact that she was never considered attractive influenced her behavior and shielded her from a lot of the exploitation…

I SEE IT

I think most attorneys would agree with you (including, it seems, the commenter who posted this), it’s just weird that it’s introduced in the article as a tactic with scare quotes, rather than a legal doctrine, hence the explanation. The author of the article doesn’t seem to have a good grasp on what comparative…

Speculating, obviously, but maybe she was against a c-section because she wants more kids? I know some people who want big families and try to avoid c-sections because the more they cut you, the more likely you are* to tear along the scar in a later pregnancy, and because they won’t have abortions (religious reasons),…

GODLESS LIBERALS! Why can’t you drink, gamble, and womanize like the Lord intended???

As someone who seems to know about guns/gun people, what do you think of a licensing scheme as a form of gun control, like we have with cars? Like to buy a gun you need a license which requires x hours of firearm and safety training & insurance?

That cuntbag Piers Morgan said something dumb about it, ‘cause he’d have done things differently if he had fans.

Does anyone know if this applies to things like smoothing out protruding bones on thin models? I don’t really have an issue with taking out blemishes or stray strands of hair, but I saw an article recently about how many magazines are not changing the size of models, but smoothing the skin over ribs and collar bones…

There’s a blue corn moon joke somewhere in here, but I can’t find it.

Not to mention Big Trouble in Little China.

My rage level at that comment:

I disagree, but I respect that you’re willing to admit that here.

In your boyfriend’s defense, it’s a cute commercial and the hook works for it. Have not listened to the whole song though — why ruin cute little doggos?

I mean, the playboy playmate thing is creepy to me too (and honestly, a guy in his 70s/80s surrounding himself with 20 year olds seems less aspirational to me than pathetic), but I’m not sure it’s true he “only supported ‘women’s empowerment’ as long as it fit his idea of women being naked and not being ~prudes~ about…

Yeah, what you’re describing sounds very mid-90s straight to VHS.

I think a lot of its success at the time came down to people buying the hype about the dumbass 3D revolution that never came. My dad, for example, was super stoked about the movie because he bought the hype, and even enjoyed the movie at the time (though some of this might have been stubbornness on his part because I…

Wait . . . how is she a beneficiary of monetized sexual violence?

One thing to note about this figure is that experts are attributing the rise in attacks in London to male-on-male gang violence. I just point this out because I associate acid attacks with domestic violence and whenever I see statistics about acid attacks would assume it was men attacking women.

Yeah . . . I feel ageist and bad but I had the same reaction. Dress is beautiful though.