Ugh, the tone is so off here. ‘Minor injuries’ makes it sound like not a big deal when she hit him enough to cause him visible damage and get herself arrested IN FRONT OF THEIR TWO YEAR OLD. I grew up with domestic violence - my mother was absolutely terrifying and abusive to all of us, including my father, but…

That’s a novel. It says so, right on the front.

Feminists of thirty years ago are an easier target than the people who are literally raping and killing women, I suppose.

All this terf shite is a distraction; don’t let yourselves get sidetracked into fighting each other, women, no matter how you started out in life. The truth is that men will always find reasons to kill women, whether they’re trans or not. A lot of the discourse on both sides of the terf debate feels like childish…

I think it’s worth noting that JKR at one point bought a very, very expensive yacht from Johnny Depp. Either they are friends IRL or she has such a crush on him she’s literally buying her way into his company. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/jk-rowling-sells-her-luxury-yacht-for-15m-less-than-a-year-after/

I’ve read it. There are many, many better crime novels out there that deal with these themes. As with Girl on The Train, it’s not a bad book but it’s not doing anything groundbreaking and ultimately the point gets lost in all the different character voices. I’m sure whatever she wrote next would have got highly…

IMO there’s a big difference between requesting your sex partner act out the part of the aggressor a rape scene because it’s your fantasy, and having someone seek to play the aggressor in a rape scene because it’s their fantasy. Maybe I am innocent or something but to me *wanting* to pretend to be a rapist is miles…

Jesus, no it wouldn’t. It’s a hangover from colonial times and it’s vile.

You can make what passes for a cogent argument downplaying literal slavery, imprisonment, the monetization of misery and abuse of the most vulnerable members of society by calling it ‘disrespect for the dead’ but a) you’ll be wrong and b) you have to expect to be told to fuck off for doing it. You wrote from a…

I’m going to counter Wikipedia with Vatican II (in one of the weirder internet comments of my existence...) They are not lay people, but you’re right to say they’re lower in standing than ordained priests etc. They are properly known as Religious.

It’s all part of the same horrible tradition of demeaning women and trapping them with their biological weakness. The men who fathered these children? They lived their lives, unmolested. The men responsible for the pregnancies that end in abortion? Same. Ireland has a longstanding history of not respecting women (and…

Nuns aren’t laypeople. Laypeople are those who haven’t taken holy orders.

I keep seeing this being suggested and it’s untrue. Here’s a statistical analysis from the 1920s of infant mortality. Please note the difference between the normal population and those born outside of marriage.  

These children were unwanted, stigmatised, neglected and abandoned when they weren’t in a saleable…

Look, she’s definitely had work done. No one has a jawline like that at 60 naturally, and her under-eye area is completely smooth as is her neck. What she hasn’t done is go for extreme fillers, very wisely. It’s not unfair to say this is good plastic surgery; if anything it’s a compliment. And she is extraordinarily…

All you need to know about the patriarchy is that women with larger external genitalia are regarded as less attractive and men with larger genitalia are regarded as more attractive. (This has nothing to do with function: size of labia does not affect size of vagina, and every time penis size is discussed here we get…

He’ll be fine. The big hit his reputation took was the idea that he would participate in some shady Swift-bearding to raise his profile. Recasting it as the love of his life but she wouldn’t play and left him heartbroken lets him keep his crown as most sincere, nicest guy; it puts her in a difficult situation if she’s…

It’s absolutely hideous. That little bolero jacket looks like something an air hostess might have worn in 1973 in crease-resistant polyester, and the matchy matchy accessories are tacky as fuck. It’s got nothing to do with who she’s standing beside/married to, and Jezebel is not a single entity; the writers and…

Yes, because he is an American. In many parts of the rest of the world, including the UK, they are called Médecins sans Frontieres.

I am a huuuuuge fan of Tom Hiddleston and this is what you need to understand to parse this speech:
* He is painfully sincere. Sincerity is his oxygen. He doesn’t have any other settings. It’s not thirst. It’s sincerity. And he himself is very much aware that it can play appallingly but he has said in the past he…

Yes, I know what you mean. The first time I had sex I was with someone I loved and trusted and I was into it but I was shocked by how invasive it was. It took a couple of tries to get used to the sensation and to enjoy it and to notice my own power in controlling my boyfriend’s pleasure and my own.

I’d be more…