Can you clarify how what you're saying is different from what I'm saying?

Well said, Erin (re: your last sentences). As long as we continue to view obesity as an individual choice that exists in a vacuum instead of a public health symptom of systemic flaws in how people in poverty are educated and granted access to healthcare, we will keep throwing our energy and tax dollars away to "solve"…

Well said.

How did you connect that with my comment? Or did my comment just make you think of it? Are you saying she's not empowered because it was a rape porn and she's trying to make fast money? Regardless, she's economically empowered because she's making money, which is frightening to those that benefit from women being…

I'm really confused by your comment. I'm not trying to tone police you but I'm losing your point in your sarcasm. Can you clarify the issue you took with my comment?

Your assumption requires that she interprets herself to be on equal footing with him. That's doubtful: he's a smart, educated older man who holds a position of authority at the university; the headline itself shows how well regarded and renowned he was. She's an underage female student who is clearly in a less…

Normally, when a person continues to engage in actions or behaviors that they're supremely uncomfortable with, it's because they feel (even if it's not the case) that they don't have a choice. You definitely excused his assault by only highlighting her activities. You're still doing it. The only thing that made this…

How is underage drinking a viable excuse to sexually assault someone? Where is his personal responsibility to not violate an unconscious person's body? And since when is accepting booze the same as accepting sexual contact?

So many questions! First, a woman who is sexually assaulted is a WHORE? A guy sexually assaults her and SHE should have known better...than to what? Get assaulted? If someone breaks a law they deserve any unwanted sexual conduct that happens? She was an active participant in the drinking, but not in the sexual…

Good call.

Also sounds like there were intentional efforts to ensure the crime wasn't brought to official legal structures for just that reason (probably a PR reason too).

How about not sexually assaulting someone? This guy is a predator. Nope.

I'm saying that the formal movement (which was actually called a club) on which modern feminism was based was explicitly exclusionary towards women of color. It was absolutely a club by white women and for the issue that mattered to them: voting. They purposefully disposed of alliances with Black groups that were…

I'm really surprised that you identify as a person of color, yet don't see a need for intersectional feminism. I didn't mean to offend you by assuming you were white; I'm still surprised that you can exist as a non-dominant individual and think that race doesn't matter. In my experience, the only people who talk about…

Then you need to read more about the history of the movement, because feminism absolutely had to do with race - women's suffrage and Black suffrage were issues at the same time and the racist white women considered the founders of feminism were explicitly and purposefully exclusionary towards Black women and men in…

She's homeless. I'm guessing it's pretty difficult to make it to her meetings, considering her first priorities are probably staying warm and staying safe.

I'm confused by your comment. You're saying you don't think going through the trauma of being raped at knife-point by a psychotic ex (who, by the way, was undoubtedly displaying terrifying behaviors prior to this incident because psychos don't just suddenly snap), going through the unholy hell of the criminal justice…

These kinds of binaries also allow us to be free of examining the inherent biases and problems within our system. When we restrict ourselves to asking which is worse, we eliminate the process of questioning why we are in a position to choose those binary options in the first place.

I do this, but normally when I'm at home and just imagining people. When I'm in public I get so invested in people watching that it's hard to exit reality and get in my head, but that's probably the only reason I don't do it outside. If it's sexual, it's about an ex, usually. No, you're normal. Do you read a lot? I…

I personally loved the Museum of Sex, but it's not for the faint of heart :). If it's nice, I like to walk on the Highline. I also went to the rooftop bar of the Wythe in Williamsburg (I'm more partial to other parts of Brooklyn, but Meatball Shop + Wythe = heaven!).