As a former medical advocate for rape victims who did a lot of interceding on my victims’ behalf with the cops working their cases...yes. You’re exactly right. My biggest fights were nearly always with the cops working the cases.

I wouldn’t jump to say that nobody’s been hurt. Nobody’s been shot or stabbed, but the girls who were victimized have experienced a horrifying trauma.

Seriously. None of these girls should be forced to go to the same school as someone who tried to sexually coerce her with threats of murder.

Somewhat tangential, but remember the fappening? One of the most infuriating things to me was the men who claimed that Jennifer Lawrence couldn’t be mad about her nudes being leaked because A. she took them, so obviously she wants them to be seen, and B. she posed semi-nude in Vanity Fair, so “what’s the difference”?

The parents can at least lessen the impact of those messages outside the home, thank god. When I was five my neighbour informed both our families that when we grew up he was going to own two transport trucks and be a long haul trucker with one, while I lived in the other one taking care of our children. I called him a…

I have misogyny fatigue. I actually got into a fight on my Facebook the other day (because that’s what Facebook is for, after all) about abortion, wherein one of my ... male friends, if you can call him that after this thread ... called a female friend of mine “dear” and told her she “lacks the credentials” to make…

When I first read this story, I got mad at the kid, until I took a step back and thought to myself, “Hey! The good guys won and nobody got hurt, for a change!”

I took my son to see this last night. It went into a lot of these issues- how we train our boys from early childhood to compete with each other and to dominate girls, to exclude and devalue them, and how then we are surprised when they behave this way.

This!

THIS.

I mean, you can raise your child to know that women are people but in today’s society every other person outside of your home will remind him that in fact we are not. With their actions, with their laws, with their assumptions, with their words.

“Blah blah blah why would you send nudes if you don’t want people seeing them blah blah”

“It is my right as a male to have women submit to me sexually. If they won’t do it, it is my right punish them.”

Oh wow, another misogynist woman-hating teenager who wants to murder women en masse because he was rejected by a female. This shit is getting real old. People - stop raising your boys to think that they are *owed* a woman. We are people, we have agency, we are NOT prizes that one can “win” by being nice or because you…

Jesus kid get your nudes from the internet like the rest of us.

Let me tell you that the most successful couple I have ever known have done couple’s counseling for almost their entire relationship. People would ask them why they did it if their relationship was successful and they always replied their relationship was so successful BECAUSE they did couple’s counseling. They just…

I do have many facts in my Deceptive Liberal Bag Of Tricks. I aired them out earlier when a man from Texas tried to explain to me how birth control works and that all the side effects I experienced from the multiple forms I’ve used were all in my crazy lady brain.

I worked for a while in a children’s hospital. I then changed jobs to work in a different hospital. As part of my employment process, I had to have a complete physical and titers run. Lo and behold I had no immunity to chickenpox. I’d never been vaccinated or had them. All it would have taken was my exposure to…

No, we have to bite you on the neck first.

can i still blame jenny mccarthy’s stupid ass for this mess?