She was only talking to ambitious Yale grads. There has been no suggestion by anyone that any of the chosen were unqualified, just that from the pool of highly qualified applicants a certain look was preferred. You seem to be suggesting that attractive young women are axiomatically less worthy than other people. It’s…

If he wants to go to a UC he should move to California and attend a city college for two years. If you fulfill certain requirements you’re in. He was probably only rejected because he’s out of state.

Sex is a desire, not a need. Food, air, water... these are needs. Trying to provide a good quality of life for a person with major cognitive issues is important, but sex isn’t a need and toddlers can’t consent. It gets tricky when people are further along developmentally but still dependent, but at this end of the…

His perspective is missing because he’s been carefully evaluated and found to have the cognitive capacity of a toddler. If he could communicate, specialists would have found a method to facilitate some communication. What she was doing was complete woo.

Jimi Page with 13 year old Lori Mattix. This is also an issue for David Bowie. Lori characterized her experiences as positive. They still should never have happened.

The Helen’s Wheels account does appear to have been created today for the sole purpose of dropping this shitty tired disinformation.

This isn’t designed to be a gotcha, I think. This article is specifically about white women and their attitudes towards non-white people in activist communities. If someone felt their experience was erased in the discussion it would be everyone else’s job to listen and incorporate that persons experience. That can be…

He asked her on a date. She thought she was on a date. With someone who believed she was a person.

Wow, exactly one person read the article! Kudos!

Yes, I hate that apparently we’re meant to fall silent if the situation described isn’t a clear rape. This could be a good time to explore affirmative consent and respecting when it is absent, but I guess not. It is a subtler conversation, after all. Not good for yelling.

Yes, my money’s on think piece/broader issues. Still checking in periodically today though!

I checked just for the Aziz. I guess that take is getting special attention!

No, that’s not usual. In fact, it’s unusual. Most people would not find the reverse ordinary

Ain’t no party like a Jezebel party, because a Jezebel party has DIVA CUPS!!!!!

Yeah, I’m happy for her that she had the energy for this, but people who are shitty shouldn’t start feeling entitled.

On one hand: awesome. On the other hand: I’m a little too exhausted from the work of my own life to take on fixing people who call me a cunt, whether they’re in pain or not. Lots of people in pain don’t call me a cunt. I think I’ll work on helping them.

The sick way I assess them all: when the whole group of them makes a trip to Jezebels (Handmaid’s Tale version), which one do you hope chooses you? So far as I can tell, the Mooch seems like the kind that does blow off your ass, but I assume the rest are all capable of far worse. The Mooch is the least bad option.

This is good! I need to get the Partridge Christmas album

Malcolm in the Middle. Lois goes to see him backstage, where it becomes clear that he spends most of his time seducing members of his soccer-mom audience.

This article isn’t about penises, nor are the replies. Your defensiveness is maybe a tell, so if your partner has been penis-shaming you, by all means, dump him/her.