I was 17 and a freshman at university. I was bitterly disappointed, because I had hoped to somehow be a hermaphrodite. No such luck. I went into the toilet because I thought that I had food poisoning. Then I passed out from the sudden, intense pain. It turned out that I had endomitriosis. One of my hallmates found me…

All the women in my family started super early, like at 8 years old. So I got the talk and pad demo around that time. Well, freaky deaky me didn't get her first period until age 14. So, I had forgotten some of the finer points. Like the fact that you are supposed to put the adhesive side of the pad in your underwear.…

Mine was just humourous. I of course had my first period at my father's house (split time half and half), and it was literally night one of my week with him, and I remember having cramps and not knowing what was going on. It's 11pm (and I'm what - 11, 12?) so when I get up my dad can hear me around upstairs and is…

I thought we've been in the era of goats for a long time now.

Both are valid judgements. Large numbers of Americans elect Tea Party candidates.

You go girl.

And once she has children, she's not worth listening to because she should be at home raising them.

Don't get be fucking started on the tea shit.

Japan has had this problem for a long time...Women enter the work force after college, and are only expected to work for a limited number of years before they are "supposed" to get married, leave work, and have children. From my understanding, Japan has never gone through a women's liberation movement like the US did,…

...so bascially this is someone going

I cannot IMAGINE why this woman is hesitant to snatch up one of those delightful catches and wed as soon as possible! It sounds divine!

I would have flipped my shit and run up the aisles Rob Ford style, punching them all. But this is why I'm not in a political office or a member of law enforcement.

And Japan wonders why its going through a birth rate crisis.

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I'm seeing lots and lots of listings for project coordinator/director positions that pay $30k and want you to have a masters degree from a top tier school. These jobs used to pay $60k minimum. Not jobs like them. Literally those same jobs.

How about all those sub-standard salaried jobs that start with no benefits, no vacation and REQUIRE a college degree, 'cause I really get sick of those.

Finally. I saw a very good documentary on their case, and this is all just so sad.

That's not how I read their post. Basically, there's a difference between a rare fetish that involves violence practiced between two consenting adults, and normalizing said fetish in a medium in which consent is unknown at best and really fucking suspect at worst.

I've never heard anyone say violent sex with strangers is empowering. I can see how having sex with a stranger who allows you act your fetish in a safe consensual manner can be empowering, but it's not empowering when women (or men) are being abused. Being abused implies that the act committed against them wasn't…

Actually I think in some cases their rage at declining male privilege leads to the jerking off to sexist porno, which then further desensitizes them and makes them feel rage against women is acceptable.