I’m moving into my own flat in 3 weeks after being homeless for nearly 16 months, totally excited but also nervous and slightly worried about having zero furniture but so happy to finally having my own home again.
Many years back I remember hearing a black American author on This American Life (sorry, I have absolutely no recollection who it might have been) talking about how when she first arrived in France she didn’t experience any racism, and it was absolutely liberating after growing up in The United States. But after…
I’m from California and I’ve had people ask if I surfed to school. People are dumb, regardless of location. This is pretty egregious, though, even by my lax standards for human decency.
I watched the 1st video and what I got from that remark is less that people over 30 don’t understand social media (or maybe they do) but that it was surprising so many older people were attacking her, shitting on her, etc. And she’s right. I’ve been in a situation where the most ruthlessly nasty, sadistic people in a…
I want her on the Supreme Court.
What I like about Jon Hamm is he can be serious and talented and funny and talented. Case in point.
I see Gabourey Sidibe in that photo with Issa Rae and Lena Waithe, too!
Just reading your comment made me almost have an anxiety attack. I hate seeing unread / unlistened bubbles.
No. C would then have to stand for K and S which last time I used them were pronounced differently. You could drop C and use S and K (which they do in Norwegian). They also replace X by KS.
USA Gymnastics will fine McKayla Maroney $100,000 if she speaks at Nassar’s sentencing. When it comes to criminal proceedings, a nondisclosure should not enforceable.
Fuck this. All these assholes coming out against Grace is hurting MeToo more than anything else. Misogynists are jumping for joy that apparently coercive behavior and pressuring women is not seen as a bad thing. Everyone keeps slut-shaming Grace, or straight-up ignoring the facts of the situation. She came out BECAUSE…
She felt pressured just because she is a woman and he is a man and man happened to be stronger, maybe she didn’t want to be hit or killed.
I hope you never let the cable repair person in your house. They might think you want bone. Going to someone’s apartment after a date isn’t consent.
Nope, that is not literally consent. That is a miscommunication. He assumed consent, she did not affirm consent.
Going to someone’s place does not mean you consent to any and all sexual acts following your arrival there, and this idea is damaging as fuck.
If you consent to vaginal sex but not to anal sex, but someone has anal sex with you anyway, when you didn’t consent to it, would you say “Oh but I went back to their place so…
“present Grace’s story for what it is—a starting point to discuss the ways consent can feel blurring, no matter how clear we might wish it were, and our lack of language to describe this”
This is a valuable conversation and could have occurred in a better written piece. I also think a discussion about the blurred…
Would it have been better if they just published rumors that just happened to be true? They published a women’s account of being pressured into a sexual interaction she wasn’t comfortable with, and one in which the man repeatedly ignored her cues that she was uncomfortable. That’s newsworthy.