Gee. I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT THAT WAY. In the context of The Lion King, this stuff is really sinking in.

I wouldn't describe rape as rare. The chance of a woman being raped is 1 in 5. That doesn't seem super rare to me.

You just answered a question to a comment I posted a few minutes ago. I was wondering what is up with that. Same thing with Kate.

The tone of this article is too respectful so let me throw this out there: Kate and Diana do have something in common and that is way too much eyeliner on the lower lid. Or is this a British royalty thing? Or just a British thing?

That is exactly what I pictured. Turning on TV and switching to the Abortion on Demand channel. I would have been one of those people who laughed out loud upon hearing that comment.

Women are voting with their wallets but Rome wasn't built in a day!

She's conventionally attractive for your average woman her age in my opinion but it doesn't matter. If it were let's say, Cindy Crawford, let's just pretend, she would still be treated badly for her looks. They would either pick apart the few flaws Cindy Crawford has or sexualize her so much that she is seen as…

Yes! I always think about that when I see these photos, which I guess makes me a tad dark but it's true. You have all these fairytale photos on your computer. And now it's just one big lie you have to stare at on a regular basis that you paid good money for.

I just have to say that a) I'm not bashing your overall point. Yes, everyone should try within reason to keep themselves safe against any kind of harm but b)I think it's horrible that you feel what happened to you was a result of not respecting your body or yourself. I think the rapist is the one who didn't respect…

Here's a risk factor to be aware of. The guy you're on a date with, who probably called you beautiful and smart and held the door open for you may possibly rape you. Your male friend who you've known for years might rape you. It's more likely one of these scenarios will play out than girl gets drunk at a bar and rando…

Sadly, it was this "locker room talk" that I ended up hearing in co-ed places that kept me a virgin until college. Imagining that I would trust someone, sleep with them, and have them verbally shit on me for having sex with them in front of their friends was horrifying. So I had sex with someone I knew I had the…

At one point I thought you were saying that as a non-sexual person you don't like to talk about sex, which confuses me because you don't have to enjoy sex or want it often to like sex stories. Sex is humorous as hell. It's so ridiculous sometimes. It's not always about talking about how great it was and acting like…

Yeah, my feeling is, you (low sex drive women) have been celebrated as "normal" for a while now. Can I just have my fun? The thing is I have a yo-yo sex drive, so I never see that one represented but I'll settle for this.

I just think people prefer not to be called "nymphos" which assumes women with high sex drives have problems. That is all.

I agree that no real epitome of beauty exists, but I'm talking about the idea of what conventional beauty is and how it subtly redefines itself throughout time. Twiggy, Edie Sedgwick and Mia Farrow, regardless of lack of ass and titties, were considered beautiful and desirable women at one time. Zoe Saldana and Mila…

I have one piece of anecdata that is probably irrelevant to you. My parents were together for 10 years, and lived together for a good portion of that time, before they got married, and they've lasted longer than most of my friends' parents relationships, which were much more traditional. The data doesn't lie, this is…

To say ScarJo is the epitome of beauty today is a bit much. I'm a big fan of her looks, don't get me wrong, but it's more like she's the epitome of beauty from another generation rather than today. I think it would be more accurate to say it's Mila Kunis or Zoe Saldana or Adriana Lima.

I think this is more about the NYT finding poor people problems sooo fascinating. There are plenty of people, hispters or not, who can't afford to just get up and go or find it really convenient to stay where they are because in New York it's even more so about location, location, location. I don't think this is NYers…

This reminds me a lot of what happened in Iran with Neda. I suppose any scene before she goes out into the protest would tell us something about her. Maybe she takes care of her little sister and serves as the mom of the family because her mother died and before she goes out to the protest she tells her that she…

Does anyone know of any online forums for rape survivors, especially for LGBT communities? Or in-person gatherings? The trouble is that I'm writing a story that requires I speak to survivors but going about it in the regular obnoxious fashion won't do in this case and I want to be sensitive.