"Resolute insipidity" is the perfect description of this bullshit.

These bills seem totally reasonable and what they seek should already be the industry standard. Funny how TPTB are all "we don't need no government intervention" when it comes to reducing harm, but they're more than happy to use the legal distinction between employee and contractor to perpetuate and profit from the…

mark, you are adorable and i lurve you. that is all.

Wow. You have no fucking way of knowing that.

idk. as a white woman who has been in an abusive relationship, i can't ignore how race and class must've factored into the decision to charge ms. smith. i'm not saying the charge is unjustified, just that i don't think i would've been charged in the same situation. i also don't know that she'd be charged if the BF…

I told him I found it gross, and he said that most other people would just join in! Am I wrong for thinking this crosses some sort of politeness barrier? I feel icked out and don't know what to do.

Being able to go from serious banging to hysterical laughter and back is my favorite part of "real grown up in a healthy relationship" intimacy!

MLK Day & Roe Day occur in the same week. Citizens of my feminist utopia would have the whole week off. Paid. So ladies: when we feminists win everything and achieve world domination (as is our obvious goal), one of our first orders of business should be getting rid of the consumerist Major Religion Holidays of…

I was thinking about the danger of pathologizing PA while reading. My abusive ex had a personality disorder and was an addict at the time of our split. I understand all too well how PA behavior can sometimes be a disempowered person's only outlet for releasing righteous anger; by the end, I was a master PA artist. The…

I'd love to read those. I wasn't in a sorority but mostly because I was a returning/non-trad student (mid-to-late 20's) for the bulk of my degree. But now I teach at a large public university with a thriving greek culture and when I read these emails, all I can think about are my students. A few of the fraternities…

One needs to own/wear the proverbial pearls in order to clutch them.

im not sure what could drive you to be so mean. were you rejected from all sororities in college? do you honestly hate women who take rational approaches towards being successful? do you hate women who like to succeed? do you also hate men who realize that looking presentable is required if you want to be successful…

He's frustrated by his carnal desires and instinctual responses to women's bodies? Really? Tell me again how groundbreaking and original your work is because seriously—no, f'real, promise not even a little sarcastic—I've never seen, heard, read, or studied any creative piece that deals with this fundamental and yet…

Me too. Which just seems like another reason the parents should be charged with something. This kid will already grow up dealing with a lot of complicated feelings. He needs to be told that it's not his fault, and it should be backed up by holding the parents accountable.

DOUBLE KEY CHANGE!!

My BFF and I were allowed to go to the mall by ourselves when we were 12. It was big deal, and a big deal was made making sure I understood just how much of a big deal it was. But that's because we were being dropped off by one set of parents and picked up by another a couple hours later, and the mall was about 10…

All those times I tried envisioning a plan for ruination of the Vatican/Church as an axis of evil and thought I was doomed to fail? Wrong! I was already succeeding. Because I'm a lady. That's all I had to do—be a lady—and I was already doing it. Awesome.

Women are wonderful, of course. They respond very naturally to the invitation to be active in the Church.

So my fiance and I (both women) are heading out of town tomorrow (wooot!) for a conference at which we both have Very Important High Stakes Professional Things happening (eeeeek!).

And with the numbers coming out of just a handful of cities, I might argue that the costs of processing would go down if there were, like, any demand for it. But I'm neither economist nor capitalist, so I just might not understand why the basic idea at the root of supply-demand doesn't apply here.