Just like periods, ideas about menopause need to change. I am approaching my final year through menopause and I feel more powerful and lucid than I ever have, capable of almost anything. I am wise and have shed so much of the fear that plagued my younger years. I am now a white-haired wizard.

Women often begin to experience pre-menopause symptoms by their mid forties. You don’t have to look like someone’s grandmother to be beginning menopause. 

So workplaces shouldn’t accommodate health issues? What about incontinence and the need for more bathroom breaks? Are you allowing folks enough time to use the restroom to change their tampon? Let me know never to get you as a doctor, you seem to be an absolute delight....

There’s a story called “The rape patrol” by Michelle Belling in Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s anthology Amazons! and it’s about a group of vigilantes. A cathartic read, if you can find a copy.

That Barnett kid deserves to be shot.

I have bought an assortment of weapons to hopefully never use, but trust me, I am NOT going through that again, NONE of it.

This is such a succinct, just-the-facts recounting of this tragedy that I’m bookmarking this as my new canned response to “there is no such thing as rape culture”.

This story makes me so sad.

I’ve dreamt of being a vigilante, bringing hard justice to those who hurt others and believe they should get away with it. Those scumbags and stains on human-kind better hope I never get a terminal disease.

My story. I was 16 and intoxicated to the point of being very sick. My friend and her boyfriend were arguing in a bedroom, leaving me alone with a football player who helped me to the bathroom because I was vomiting. He locked the door behind him and attempted to rape me. I fought him and eventually made enough noise…

I sure hope someone fucking offs Matthew Barnett.

When I was a teenager, I was raped by a very popular football player and I told no one. It took me 30 years to come to terms with it. Just once I would like to see teen survivors turn the destructive behavior away from themselves and onto the rapist. Just once I would like to see the boy’s house burned down, the boy’s…

In these situations an eye-for-an-eye seems appropriate. Cut his d*&^ off... no more mental agony for the girl, a sort of relief she got “even”. And he cant literally dick around anymore.

The whole thing is so fucking sad and just a wretched indictment of society, both the immediate aftermath and that years later we collectively could not help and protect her instead of the rapist. Even with all the perceived visibility around sexual assault and rape in the last few years (#metoo, Nassar doc, Audre and…

I hope karma rains down on the mother fuckers that did this. I hope it rains down so hard it’s like a lightning bolt/tsunami/hurricane and a bitch slap down to hell.

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians

lol stfu.

I have, since childhood, been frequently and repeatedly accused of flirting with boys and men on various occasions and in various scenarios.

This guy apparently is not familiar with the widely held belief that you can tell a lot about a person’s character by how they treat servers. Why the immediate assumption that women are flirting?  Maybe they are simply being nice, which they’re socialized to do from birth. Would he think it more normal if they were…

Wow, your interpretation of normal human behavior is bizarre. Flirting is fun to do- that’s why people do it. People in relationships will sometimes flirt with people who are not their partner and it doesn’t mean anything, again, because flirting is fun. It is weird to assume that just because someone flirts with you,…