You’re right to an extent, but MeToo isn’t just the accusers and victims who have given voice to their abuse and it isn’t just the accused and abusers. It’s the internet mob and the coverage they eventually birthed in mainstream publications. What this does for that group is demand that “victims” not go unvetted as…

Well, and it also makes one wonder why Monahan was somehow fine with releasing chopped-up text messages. These were supposed to corroborate her story, so doesn’t that also count as “setting the expectation”? She’s talking out both sides of her mouth here.

I find this stance odd, “Mohanan told Minnesota Public Radio that she would not release the alleged tape because, “It sets the expectation for survivors of all kinds of forms of abuse, whether it be abuse toward women, abuse from police officers, abuse from other people in power, to have to be the ones, like I’m doing…

Plenty of pregnant women don’t have the option of not working and likewise many at-risk pregnant women should avoid physical labor. Not everything is a conspiracy “titled” against women. 

If we had to sit here and list all the ways, subtle and overt, that the working world is systemically titled against women, we’d be here all day. (But just to do a dab of due diligence: Unequal pay, sexual harassment, constantly getting talked over, double standards…It’s an unpleasantly unceasing list.”

Wah. Wah. Don’t support it. Move on. It’s always something.

I won’t even say how long it’s been for me (years, plural), but my friend got genital herpes from some guy she met on tinder. He claimed he didnt know he had it (mhm). Stories like these affirm my decision to no longer engage in random sexual encounters. Not only is it never that good, but it also leads to these kinds …

“Why had none of the many dermatologists I’d visited ever bothered to tell me eczema herpeticum was a thing?”

No one’s “forcing her to take birth control”. Like ALL other athletes she has to hit the eligibility criteria for the group she wants to race in. How she meets that criteria is not their business. And as the article points out, she has a number of alternatives if she is unwilling or unable to meet the criteria. She…

I’m just going to say this, this is McCarthyism resurrected.

Have we lost the idea of any due process before a person’s livelihood is destroyed?

Women fought in WW II.

This is established historical fact.

The delicate fee-fees of the armchair historians who’ve never cared to engage with the reality of the war beyond saying “I watched Band of Brothers five times” (and no insult to Band of Brothers; I own the Blu-Ray and DVD editions, it was that good) are not a…

One of the things that’s so fascinating to me is that the original term, involuntary celibacy, was coined by a queer woman. And there are lots of folks (queer folks, folks with disabilities, fat people, etc) who do struggle to find love and sexual partners because we live in an oppressive and disgusting society, but…

Don’t be a primitivist, it’s bigoted.

“The wakandans are supposedly a technologically advanced nation, the most advanced nation on earth it seems, and still they dress and act like barbarians”

She also expressed her feelings to him the next day. He heard her out and apologized. I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of his apology. His statement on the matter affirms that he took her words to heart.

Times a billion

This x100.

This was a bad date. She had a horrible date with a clueless guy who thought he was being sexy and hot. She was made to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn’t right.