You don't need to be a lemming to be impressionable or more likely to be impressed by less or less likely to call a guy out on his shit. Older women claim it more because we were once younger women, and, looking back, often see where we were used or too young or afraid to speak up for ourselves.

Just had this conversation with my 16 year old daughter who has a 16 year old friend who is "dating" a 29 year old adult man.

(It also explains my ex husband's MO)

You do know the Star's reputation, right? I'm not saying it's wrong... just that I take a lot of it with a grain of salt. But I'd also believe it over the xoJane article written by Carla Ciccone.

My love for Paul Rudd is such that I am just going to report this as truth.

>>There's no way the CBC would fire their golden goose without cause. <<

We will not stand for having our buns tainted by such sloppy-joe journalism! This bleeding-heart press is always throwing the baby of innocent citizens' rights out with the bathwater of political correctness. They've really dropped the ball on this under-the-wire race to the bottom.

Yeah. That's what I keep saying: They were right about Ford. The Star isn't a tabloid. They don't run the story until they've checked it out. After all, this reporter has been researching the story for a year or so.

The demonization by the specter of mud suddenly released from the Internet sling made of slander rubber is enough to knock me to the ground of sadness and into the puddle of indignation from which I plan to rise like a Phoenix of righteousness knocking over my detractors with my diamond talons of truth.

That he'd suggest proof it was all consensual could be found in texts or emails – as if consent can't be withdrawn – is ridiculous.

I just want to restate here what I've been saying on FB (my feed's blowing up, being a good feminist lady aged 20-45 in Canada):

The sad answer is, yes. I guess it's a disclaimer for those who want to think these are low-IQ women who might have just, you know, misunderstood the punches to their heads.

You know, if I was trying to prove that I hadn't sexually assaulted someone by leaning into my consensual bdsm cred, I wouldn't use "my relationship was like a mild 50 Shades of Gray" as some sort of proof that this relationship was super-duper consensual. I would distance myself from that book so freaking hard.

Also, fuck this guy for trying to claim this as BDSM. BDSM is all about consent and comfort of your partner. You never punch someone in the face as soon as they walk in the door without prior consent or discussion (I am not saying this as a joke). I'm so sick of people claiming unwanted violence as sexual kink. …

Thank you so much for writing this, Erin/responding to my crazed tweet last night in which I asked if you were planning on doing the same. Sorry to re-post what I wrote in the comments on today's DB, but my thoughts haven't changed much, also I need to get this arbitration brief index done by the end of the day, and…

They included accounts from three separate "educated and employed"

As a fellow former-Mormon, the fact that that you needed to raise your arms to the square scares me the most. That shit is SERIOUS.

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE SAD CLOWN PIKCHERZ???

Never seen one myself but I have a story from someone I trust. A few years ago, I asked my SO if he had ever seen a ghost. He got really uncomfortable and squirrelly, lots of hemming and hawing. Annoyed, I said "Just say yes or no! I won't judge if you think you have seen a ghost." (I'm a skeptic and figured he didn't…

YASSSSS!!!!

Yay!!