Oh, stop clenching your pearls, guys. They weren’t burning copies of literature or even trashy airplane novels, they were burning last year’s homework calendar and their Spanish practice worksheets. I’ve used many a graded paper as kindling. It’s really nothing at all like what Hitler or Savonarola were doing.

According to the police report, he had no known mental health issues, nor a history of alcohol abuse or illicit drug use. And the sales clerk told him not to eat more, he just disregarded that when the cookie didn’t kick in within the hour.

This appears to have been his first time using marijuana.

As someone who also works in this field (because that’s what we’re doing now? ugh), I’m aware there are many awesome people who aren’t using this framing, and are trying to get word out to male and non-binary survivors. That doesn’t mean I can’t take issue with Jezebel, and the article’s author, not doing the same.

That’s kind of contested, statistically speaking. But even if we assume it is true, it’s not nessecarily the best framing. It makes a lot of survivors feel like their abuse isn’t “real” abuse. It alienates many women who are victims of dv, but don’t understand it as tied to their gender, and don’t see misogyny as the…

Ok... there’s maybe an unfortunate conflation of “domestic violence survivor” with “women” going on here. But otherwise, this would be a really fantastic service to offer domestic violence survivors.

Winning over women will require more than just churning out pink bongs. “Our products aren’t designed in a female fashion, but they function in a way that women want them to,” Dulany said. Dulany’s company touts its vaporizers as slimmer and lighter than the competition’s, emphasizing that the palm-sized products can…

It’s the same as the problem with “ma’am” - it means you’re an elder.

Here’s the actual study, for anyone who’s interested.

But femme lesbians also get questioned a lot. It’s not a problem exclusive to bi women.

2x is totally bombarded by MRAs, though. I mean, the mods aren’t MRAs, but it does create a lot of issues.

I like certain sub-forums (subreddits) as a way to keep up on things posted around the internet, without having to fill up my rss reader with a bunch of sites I don’t really care about, save for one article every 3 months or so. It’s a pretty good way to keep up on what people are actually talking about.…

God, I have one friend who goes to parties, gets drunk, and starts screaming at people “ARE YOU A FEMINIST?!?!?”, because “you’re either a feminist or you’re evil.” It’s like a bizarre parody, except for how she’s 100% genuine.

I seem to remember something about how, sometimes, women talking about regretting their abortion weren’t actually regretting their abortion, per say. Rather, they were regretting the larger situation that surrounded them: having to make that decision when they so desperately wanted children (just not yet), the…

Oh, good. Remember a few months ago, when there was that other study and everyone was all like “in science, there’s actually reverse discrimination”? Suck it, you dicks.

It’s common sense to many of us, who are familiar with such topics. But given that police are locking children up for prostitution, it probably doesn’t hurt to have a study or twelve that can scientifically back up how harmful all this shit is.

I was wondering what could possibly take 45 freaking minutes to learn until I read the part about learning the braided bun. I’ve never been able to really get the hang of it, possibly because you have to have hair down to your butt to really get a good braided bun, and my neck hurts just thinking about all that…

Just fyi, rape is not the only crime where people doubt you; it’s very standard with pretty much any type of abuse (emotional abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, etc), as well as things like white collar crime where people think “oh such a nice person couldn’t possibly have done such a thing.”

Didn’t Taryn get arrested for violating a restraining order Jeanine had against her, and threatening to kill Jeanine a few months ago? Is this a case of abuser-on-abuser?

How many women are changing their names, but to a new name that both partners change to, and not simply to their husband’s pre-existing last name?