The military and the VA lag so far behind in their service to women it’s shameful.

This seems an appropriate addendum to your last thought:

I’ve interviewed the author of this post and Emma Sulkowicz for Gawker. I consider myself to have a reasonable bullshit detector, and a strong grasp of the issues involved at Columbia. I found the author and Emma surprisingly forthright, wholly credible, and supremely conscientious at all points in our interviews. I…

It’s not a major coincidence that the people most likely to criticize Emma and Anon above are often huge fans of Ayn Rand and cannot begin to imagine why a person might sacrifice their own comfort in service of unnamed others.

Something bad happened to a woman? SHE MUST’VE HANDLED IT WRONG. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IF YOU AREN’T PERFECT YOU DESERVED TO BE A VICTIM. SHE MUST’VE BEEN ASKING FOR IT. VICTIMS ARE WHO WE SHOULD REALLY BLAME.

If I’m not mistaken both Columbia and the police declined to pursue a case against Nungesser due to insufficient evidence, which is vastly different than affirming his innocence.

Yup! I remember when Elizabeth Smart was rescued, she said years later she never escaped when she could’ve because she had been raped repeatedly, and she thought her family wouldn’t love her anymore because she wasn’t a virgin. Typical family teaching abstinence and ~waiting for marriage.

The thing that has always bothered me about the Duggars is not how many children they have, or how their religion affects their family size, but the fact that I don’t think they are very good parents in general. People always scoff at that opinion because how can you be a bad parent when you have so many kids?!!?!

Purity culture is a part of rape culture.

Purity culture is a part of rape culture. I'm not shocked by this at all.

Seems like a good enough time as any to post those rage inducing Vulture graphs charting the ages of Hollywood’s leading actors vs the actresses playing their love interests (with only Tom Hanks consistently defying the ‘decades younger actress’ rule).

This whole article is fantastic. About 2/3’s of the way through it, got to this,

OH BLESS YOU

I think racism + sexism is a HUGE part of it. Conservatives hate nothing more than black women, and the black straw-woman they’ve created in their mind spends her time having promiscuous sex, and then alternately having children out of wedlock OR aborting them, all to get her hands on that sweet, sweet welfare money.

No- that’s his point. They didn’t show the rape to somehow develop Max’s character or his understanding of their pain. It’s what they faced, and it’s what they’re escaping from, it’s about them, not about Max.

Jesus christ, when did Leo DiCaprio turn into Orson Welles’ douchebag nephew?

I’m not exactly a fashionista but can we talk for a second about Chrissy’s outfit at the BBMAs? Is it just me or does she look phenomenal

Ok, I’m going to wax philosophical for a moment here. Maybe just maybe in the grand scheme of things historically, 20 or 40 years from now what’s remembered from the Kardashian clans run in the collective consciousness is how they brought trans issues into a greater public awareness with loving acceptance. I could be…

Katy Perry tried to sabotage Taylor’s entire tour, all she got were 3 dancers. Also as a bit of irony with the video, Katy got Selena fired from her management team 2 weeks after Selena signed on. There are quite a few articles about this. So nope not just about 3 dancers.

It’s mostly a portrayal of how stupid/destructive/dickish the manfeelings can be. There were some idiots that, particularly during season 1/2, totally missed that and thought that they were supposed to want to be Don Draper. That was definitely not true.