While this initiative is awesome and great, it's a fucking disgrace that an outside non-profit has to raise the funds to get these kits tested. That in itself diminishes the nature of these crimes - that they aren't important enough to make it into the county budget.

Totally agree! I want more Allen stories. Never ending Allen stories. Allen sounds utterly delightful and Mark is a nutcase and together they are bizarrely adorable. Allen + Mark 5ever. They're my favorite couple in the world.

I think I out-creeped you...

That daughter and grandson sure are gonna miss their supplemental income, aka the dead lady's social security check.

BYE PHYLICIA.

tell us more stories about in store appearances!!!

I worked at the Virgin Megastore in the 90's when he released his book and did an in-store and he was actually very polite and kind to everyone. Like, he was only supposed to sign like fifty books, but he made sure that he stayed several hours past his scheduled time so that every single fan that showed up got to see…

snacktastic, probs. she's team pancakes.

Hey look at that, Serena Joy's talking again.

Yup, I think the awkwardness has something to do with the rarity of seeing painted-on-looking eyebrows on guys. Might also be that the current fashion is natural-looking brows. The side-slung mankini is...uh...bold? It sort of looks like he has a red boner, which I'm guessing is probably the intent.

Anyway, it's…

We don't need to teach men how to empathize. Men have empathy. They're socialized poorly, but they have empathy. We need to break down the barriers (ie, hegemonic masculinity) that prevent them from feeling comfortable expressing that empathy.

I like this. I was really afraid, when I started reading this article, that is was going to be about how men carried around cakes and everyone looked at them and now they understand what it's like to walk around in public as a woman. And I'm so glad that that's not what it was.

Lemon flavored baked treats are my favorite. So fucking delicious, so goddamn classy. Here are my go-to lemon recipes:

The Lemon Cake Male Objectification Experiment, a/k/a The Male Glaze.

You're a genius! Figleaves has a load of swimwear on sale right now.

You're right, that was mean.

A woman did it first.

Girl, you gotta get yourself a Muslim swimsuit. We know from coverage.

I'm with Dan Savage. Common sense, really. It only turns into a big discussion when people project all kinds of crap on maintenance sex which is neither abusive nor non-consensual because that's not what we're talking about here. It's not about anyone being forced into sex. It's kinda like how you pretend to be more…

That's not true. Some of us do care. Words matter.

Some of us do.