My Dad told me stories of how it was perfectly acceptable for him and my Uncle to cruise the local high school for girls when they were in their mid-to-late twenties in the 1970s. It was understood until recently that if you were a guard at a female prison that sex was a perk of the job, whether the prisoner wanted it…

I just can’t believe how much of this goes on. For years I have been bothered by an experience I had with a doctor when I was 10. My mother was in the room!! I asked her afterwards why he did that and she said that is what doctors do!!! It has been at the back of my head bothering me for 40 years and I only realized…

I was a student at Northfield Mount Hermon in the early to mid 1990s. The School was rife with (male, with one exception) faculty that preyed on students. It was such a small community that everyone knew about it, but nothing was ever done to address it. The college advisor NMH assigned me had been fired from his…

Not for nothing but boarding school, private school, public school, it doesn’t really matter. Predators seek unfettered access to children / minors.

She always seems to have a chip on her shoulder, like she isn’t getting her due. But I feel like she does get the credit she deserves-and she does deserve a lot of credit, especially when it comes to MTV and music videos.

In all the years I have known about the existence of this Madonna person, I have never heard her compliment another musical artist without the caveat “she/he reminds me of me.” The highest compliment she can bestow. Any and all tributes to others are always in essence about her. I don’t hate her, I can’t work up…

Pedant gonna pedant for a sec, sorry.

Yes more more more!

Oooh, this is fun!  Another, please!

2. Yes, there is. It happens. 

And therein lies the issue - most people have a hard time viewing a 17 year old male having sex with an older attractive woman as a non-consenual act or being victimized.

Dustin Hoffman’s character was well above the age of consent — the “graduate” (from college) — so no parallel at all.

Non-consensual sex is illegal pretty much everywhere though. 

Rose Mcgowan has been constantly accused of publicly defending a child rapist, Victor Salva. People have been asking her about it every day on Twitter for almost a year now, and she ignores them. When I brought it up on Jezebel I got so many hate messages I had to go off the grid for months. Because people think…

Most innocent victims don’t turn around and inflict their pain on others because they don’t have it in them to make others suffer, regardless of, or especially because of what they’ve been through.  I don’t buy this excuse in the least. 

If the younger person didn’t consent, no matter how “awesome “ the older person might be , then it is some form of assault.

I don’t know how it is in the rest of the country, but if you’re in the upper income brackets in Seattle you’ll notice that about half or more of your friends and coworkers are in an interracial white/Asian marriage, particularly if they are under 45. A few white women are married to black men (virtually never the…

Yeah I thought it was known that all humans can be racist/discriminate against other humans, it’s on an individual basis... at least I thought so.

Thoroughly agreed on all counts. I will point out though, bathroom etiquette-wise women act like filthy animals in public toilets too. The most unpleasant feeling in the world is sitting down on a toilet only to discover it’s covered in some strange woman’s nasty urine. I’ve found this happens way more in the US than…

Seemingly we women have navigated around this issue by: 1. Asking politely at all businesses that may have a bathroom, or 2. buying cheap, non-liquid items from businesses where you have to buy something to use the bathroom. You can have that advice for free!