Wasn't that the story of Abraham, his wife, and his concubine? Like, Hagar was Sarah's slave and she gave him to Abraham to impregnate because she couldn't have children. So... bearing the child of your rapist is maybe kind of a Thing in that book.

Just ran that one past my Bengali boyfriend, sans context. He froze. "Did my sister tell you to say that?!"

Just ran that one past my Bengali boyfriend, sans context. He froze. "Did my sister tell you to say that?!"

Well, not to brag but...I totally just ran two miles while farting almost continuously, so like, I'm pretty sure my digestive system could beat yours up in a fight. You know, were it to come to that.

...Hell, you can probably find one that'll pay you good money for the privilege.

I just bought this! Is it worth moving to the top of my daunting stack of reading?

Ew. There is no circumstance in which that sentence is appropriate.

Donna Haraway has a great feminist analysis of pet ownership in her book, The Companion Species Manifesto. Worth a read.

It's actually kind of cute. I mean, in a "stay the fuck away from my genitals dude" kind of way. Like... I dunno, Paul Ryan?

This, coming from the man who blamed Trayvon Martin's death on black mothers who let their sons leave the house wearing hoodies?

And yet, when tweenage me asked in Sunday School whether the Holy Spirit had to take a physical form to impregnate Mary, like Zeus did with his ladies, I got nothing but weird looks and a Golden Shower joke I didn't understand and wasn't ready to know about.

This is the best slam poetry I've ever heard. Thank you for sharing.

Oh God. Was it Instead/Softcup? I KEEP DOING THAT. I'm thinking of switching to Diva but I'm terrified I'll do the same thing and just have to accept the fact that my vagina is an impenetrable freaking fortress.

So I just looked at the opinion piece and there's some broken links there for the studies he mentions. Also, it looks like bits and pieces of this are being pulled from different studies. Which leads me to wonder whether class and income were accounted for in the results. Because I grew up in the same kind of small…

I feel you. My mother works at a crisis pregnancy center. She's never been involved with this kind of terrorism, but I know damn well she perpetuates the rhetoric that inflames these people, and that she wouldn't think twice about lying to a woman about breast cancer links or some shit to keep her from getting an…

I was hoping someone would bring this up. Thanks for doing it so well.

...Huh. I actually would have thought it would cost a lot more than $0.5 billion over 10 years. I mean, don't get me wrong - I'm as lib as it gets and I say free gay abortions for everyone - but for comparison, that free tuition to community college thing would cost us $6 billion over the same amount of time. And the…

Ripps claims he is making a statement on "the inaccurate synthesized artificial beauty passing as everyday."

...Oh, and the reason I'm not flat-out calling her a narcissist is because I'm not a professional and I don't armchair-diagnose based on a single article. So the fact that this woman would come out and call her sons narcissists? That's messed up. Good on you for cutting her off, boys - I think your instincts are…

It's interesting that she's blaming narcissism here, because this whole article comes off incredibly narcissistic to me. She seems to feel that the details aren't important, or that they won't make her sympathetic enough a character. She really seems to think of herself as a victim here.