I’ve actually read the book. And even this description you provided doesn’t claim it’s a rape. A girl has sex with her five male friends. Consensually. So that is not rape.

I can think of only two books that deal with a male character’s rape: the Prince of Tides and The Kite Runner.

Not a rape.

I run a Twitter account where I live Tweet horror movies (what else am I supposed to do on a Monday night?) and I watched this one this week. It’s very well done. I’ve read the book and I actually like this more than the book. Carla was so good at playing the different parts of her psyche, plus there were some…

Close. Men generally don’t know how to write *male* characters who *have* been raped. That’s why male characters with trauma in their past always have been partially eaten by a bear or gone off to war. When sexual violation is part of their origin it’s the sexual violation of their wives or daughters. Masculine…

Lotta, lotta rape in Stephen King novels. Just off the top of my head, Dolores Clairborne, Gerald’s Game, The Wasteland, Rose Madder, Big Driver, It Grows on You, Wizard and Glass. It’s almost as if men don’t know how to write female characters who haven’t been raped.

OkCupid also taught me how many men really need to clean their bathroom mirrors.

...the president correctly used words like “equipped” and “stewards” in their proper context.

I don’t know why more people don’t go this route. The happiest person I know from my old grad program got an extremely cushy position at a private hs in her favorite city. All the faculty there now have PhDs from top universities. Pay is comparable (or better) than most college positions, they get summers off, and…

Teen librarian here! I can vouch for the neediness of teen library users. Hopefully they won’t be too nerdy at the upcoming inaugural meeting of the TAB...

Holy fuck, where do you make that much money teaching high school? In my area they make like 48k after a decade.

Don’t you need a teaching license of some sort to do that?

Nothing he says makes sense! So now gay men doing butt sex makes me...what? Stray? Refuse butt sex to my husband so he goes gay to get butt sex? WHAT IS THIS HELL

It blows my mind that men think “I have a good job and a car and a home and that makes me good marriage material.” Uh, no it doesn’t dude. You actually have to be an interesting person.

Yes we are no longer culturally and legally kneecapped into a forced dependence on men. This is indeed the end of traditional marriage.

THAT’S where I recognized his name from! Thanks, Renard.

So, since a lot of people seem to have forgotten, Mark Regnerus is a Catholic fundamentalist asshole who published a “study” that purported to prove definitively that gay people were not good parents. It was a trash study, and did a lot of damage because at the time it gave anti-gay-marriage advocates an excuse to…

Mark Regnerus is warning women that no one buys the cow when it gives the milk away for free.

What? Bewitched did it to Dick in mid stream!

This probably isn’t the place for this but I’ve been watching old episodes of the King of Queens and both Carrie and Doug are just awful people. In any given episode, they’re doing something horrible to someone or they’re engaging in some scheme to screw over someone (or each other) just to get what they want, and I…