This person has moved on to openly harassing me because my own experience of being raped informs how I feel about this show. You should flag them; they’re pretty far beyond the pale.

No, I was raped in grad school. I guess as a survivor, my view of assault is just a little more nuanced than ‘Hurr durr I wanna see man rape woman.’

I don’t really think it does. Lazy writers treat rape as a plot device against female characters. None of those other things you listed are used in remotely the same way. For example (and this is a criticism both against the books and the show), Jaime, the great warrior, looses his sword hand. That’s meant to stretch…

The most prominent entertainment site to say they won’t be covering GoT anymore is the Mary Sue, and part of their reasoning is that gratuitous rape, and the addition of rape, is a trend with these showrunners. They use the Jaime/Cersei scene (which I think was more gratuitous - at least with Sansa you can make the…

I recently read about a woman who found herself pregnant at 8 months. She had fairly serious digestive issues normally, which also affected her period, and attributed the symptoms to those issues. Without a point of comparison, like a previous pregnancy, I could see how that would happen.

FWIW, I’m also in academia and absolutely feel that the time I spend at work makes me a better parent.

I went to a CPC protest while visibly pregnant. I think it was worth it, because people saw a woman having a wanted child be against CPCs. But the volunteers were really mean and upsetting. If you recover a little energy, and there’s a local protest group, it might be fun to go, especially if you minimize contact with…

Other people have answered this question really well, but one other thing I wanted to put out there is that because PP isn’t staffed by wingnuts, women can actually get help with finding out about state and federal-level resources to help them afford care (abortion, birth, etc). I know women who were able to keep…

They get around it by not employing doctors, generally. Often these places are staffed by church volunteers who have taken an ultrasound course (OR NOT) and aren’t governed by the same ethical guidelines as actual practitioners. Depending on where you are, the fine print on their intake forms might say something like…

I’ve not heard of that book and I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!

The ends (personal wealth for themselves and a few cronies via consulting jobs in industry post-term) justify any means to these fucks. Total moral bankruptcy.

But that’s the point, right? Spend all the money on asinine lawsuits, and then you have an excuse to make deeper cuts in social programs. Right-wing jerks get their anti-choice laws and to ‘starve the beast’ all at once.

I’m kind of mystified by the lime backlash. If my husband comes home without that many limes, I worry that he’s come down with something. We also always have a big bin of frozen, spent limes in the freezer to use as ice for drinks.

Yeah, and WIC more-or-less has the same rules. I just wanted to clarify that Texas has pretty much the same rules as everywhere else on this issue.

Or other transitory conditions, or may be disabled. It seems like a really arbitrary thing.

At the present, Lonestar can’t be used to buy alcohol, eat-in food or hot food (like, something from the deli counter. Not sure what happens if you try to buy the same item in a packaged tupperware next to the deli counter).

Governing a smaller amount of people certainly has its advantages, sometimes.

Not that I know of. A discussion of the 5% tax cut is in the MJ piece, but the text isn't linked, so I'll just attach it here: http://www.navajo-nsn.gov/News%20Release…

cut taxes on healthy food,

Something I wish this article mentioned: last year, the nation also removed a 5% tax on fresh produce.