Yes! And also the power of peer pressure when a social group has no tolerance for sexual assault. I think that hat makes se a husband I’ve difference in the lives of the writer and her assailant after the fact.

One of the reasons my partner and I work so well together is that he insists on a level of intimacy that is healthy but new for me - it’s forced me to open up more and be more trusting. Relying on someone else for some things has been scary but such a mental/emotional relief. If he wasn’t living with me, I’m sure I…

Obviously this LDR has helped Judith hide the fact that she is INSANE.

The vast majority of them are some form of Christian or another. They’ve been raised to believe their credulity is the biggest and best quality about them- their core belief is they have to believe that a dude was sacrificed by his own dad to remove any personal responsibility they have for their own shitty thoughts…

Pshht. Who wasn’t?

Everyone is welcome. But we’re leaving in exactly 20 minutes or this will just become a huge production, and we’ll never get out the door.

Yes: somebody has been hired to make sure a brothel is worthy of O.J. Simpson.

I think you’re taking on some extreme thinking here. No one is saying she has to ask for a VP title or crazy amounts of money. But like, if her title is “admin assistant” and she’s really doing the work of a comms person or a policy person or a development person (or more than one of those roles!), then it’s not a…

Okay, but “charities” still should be paying their employees fairly. I work in the non-profit sector and see a bunch of underpaid, overworked folks. The people who aren’t underpaid and overworked are even happier, trust me, and tend to do better, more efficient work for their orgs, thus saving them money in the end.…

Ladies and Gents:

I have been looking for this glorious social media gaffe to show up on Jezebel today because it has consumed my life. So. This happened to NPR. Someone meant to post something to his personal page, but he posted it to the NPR page. The problem is that this happened yesterday, and it’s been such a shitshow of a couple…

Every single student who applies to a PhD program needs to be given a hard lecture about their chances of making anything out of it. This system is designed for each and every one of them to fail, then make themselves feel inadequate for doing so. Higher education is an abusive spouse in a country club with everyone…

Yes we are no longer culturally and legally kneecapped into a forced dependence on men. This is indeed the end of traditional marriage.

So, since a lot of people seem to have forgotten, Mark Regnerus is a Catholic fundamentalist asshole who published a “study” that purported to prove definitively that gay people were not good parents. It was a trash study, and did a lot of damage because at the time it gave anti-gay-marriage advocates an excuse to…

OMG I have a story I never get to tell! One of the guys on our softball team had a collision with another player at second base and he hit his nose and forehead HARD on the other guy’s shoulder. He drops his glove and grabs covers his nose with his hands, and when he calms down and realizes he didn’t break anything,…

Have to admit, it bothers me that not a single white player kneeled alongside a teammate.

I stopped supporting the NFL a few years ago. Ray Rice was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. After reading how many NFL owners donated to 45's campaign, I feel even more vindicated. However I am very proud of the athletes that have chosen this form of civil disobedience & those that support them. What I…

Maybe that should be an addendum to the half-plus-seven rule. Does the person you’re ogling still see a pediatrician? Yes? STOP IT, YOU’RE OBJECTIVELY CREEPY, THEY SEE A DOCTOR FOR CHILDREN.*

It takes a special kind of asshole to make Goodell look like the good guy in comparison...