Nah, that’s some stuff you read in and are debating. Since you aren’t at each rape or have heard each one that occured reported to you you can’t really state with certainty, or in good faith that this is all consensual sex that a Puritanical society is labeling as rape because “power imbalance”. (Also, that’s still…

If a person is in a position of authority over another - especially where there is a power dynamic like this one - then it’s not necessarily consensual. Sorry. Just because sexual contact isn’t violent doesn’t mean it wasn’t coerced (i.e.: intimidation, threatening to take away privileges). Coercion IS force.

“When lawmakers start practicing medicine it’s a very bad idea.” is the other money quote. It applies to so much more than pain relief, too.

I felt like he was blaming me for being in pain, for not wanting to be in pain.

That part got me too. My mom has lupus and fibromyalgia. I’ve been there when the insurance company fucked up and she didn’t get her meds. I’ve been there when her mental fog was so bad she forgot to order more meds and had to do without. The only medicine that helps her routinely gets denied by our insurance; and…

But still: Secretary Clinton and Jezebel felt like a match made in media expediency heaven.

Given the decidedly pro-Bernie slant to your primary coverage, it’s not a surprise she wouldn’t want to speak to Jezebel. Add in the fact that you want to tie her to a decades-old and never charged sexual assault her husband allegedly committed (one that Ken Starr even dismissed) and you wonder why you’re getting…

Sorry but you do not get to decide who and what victimized Elizabeth Smart. Elizabeth Smart gets to decide that because it was her experience, not yours.

I get where you’re coming from, but part of me really hates this type of argument because I’ve had it used against me in semi-related discussions having to do with statutes of limitation on child sex abuse. Literally, I’ve been told that my opinion on the need to eliminate the statute of limitations on CSA is not…

Yeah, why would we listen to the victims instead of the 10 million rape apologists in this thread pearl-clutching about porn being taken away

Nah, that’s a perfect starting point. It’s not a good ending point, nor is it a good main point, but given that the starting point for many people in that space is “This hurt me personally, might it be bad in general?”, porn-as-rapist-manual is a fantastic impetus for that thought process.

So the people who suffer the worst personal damage from any kind of vice that, I assume, you enjoy are not allowed to talk about their own experience? That seems extreme in the other direction.

You... don’t really know what you’re talking about. I take 10 mg of extended-release morphine every 12 hrs for my rheumatoid arthritis and it’s allowed me to continue working and stay off of disability.

This is horrible. That poor young woman. Her poor family. I hope this man goes to prison for a very, very long time.

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but it seems like plenty to me for 2 days worth of lockup and a fairly brief legal dispute. I’m trying to consider this in light of the whole system of damage compensation, which seems to often award a million or two for years of serious abuse, and also the police department’s ability…

“Hey you two, stop displaying that you are happy with each other in a publicly acceptable romantic way!” Ugh...

The philosophy of the artwork relates to the idea of the sacred feminine.

I see a lot of “woman gets nude to protest something or other” (especially on the HuffPo, which loves to cover those stories) but do not understand that. To me, women are already sexualized and treated as objects for men to gawk at rather than listen to, so “I’ll just get naked and that’ll show them” misses the mark…

Oh cool, white dude asking 100 women to pose nude for difficult-to-decipher performance peice about “the sacred feminine” for a bunch of people who are already too dense to give a shit about women. Thank you, smart arty man, for figuring out how to communicate for us! We should’ve just been holding up mirrors and…

My problem with things like this is always the questions: “Who is the target of your message here?”