It's Monday in Sydney.

I know I've heard that as well. That still doesn't make their choices right, considering that media influences our choices. It's like a snake eating its own tail, except the snake is racist.

My lips are sealed

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I had a similar experience. Got out of a party where (luckily) someone interrupted a guy trying to force himself on me. I was super shaken and walk/running back to my dorm, when this guy who I sort of knew INSISTED on walking me home. Which I tried to get him not to do, but failed.…

Either they were THAT GOOD or THAT BAD.

When the (alleged) rapist kid was finally charged last week, I was so relieved to read GOOD news for once that I sent the feminist knitting circle a Michael's gift card. When we're so inundated with terrible shit all the time, it's nice to take a moment and celebrate the small victories, you know?

I very much disagree with that justification — the context doesn't make it any less uncomfortable. Yeah, sure, the "what's in this drink" line is just sort of a silly thing that sounds way more awful to modern ears, similar to men saying they feel 'gay' or whatever.

You jest, but I actually did once fall in love with an onion for a few hours while tripping. It had more layers than the person I was dating at the time.

Glee-pertension

I haven't seen the episode yet, so, I'm just guessing here - is "I cast a great actress who feels like our sister, our daughter, our roommate." code for "I cast a pretty white woman"?

I cast a great actress who feels like our sister, our daughter, our roommate.

lol I love that Adam Pally really is Max

In the past week I've heard that self defence argument at least five times. And it's bullshit. In my Australian inner city suburb, a woman called Jill Meagher was raped and murdered just over two years ago. Her case really did mobilise a lot of discussion around men's violence against women, but at the same time it…

I'm a woman and if I was chatting with a customer service rep and they made that spelling mistake and then a funny little clarification, I probably would've made the same joke back. That being said, I don't blame the rep for disconnecting because you never know how far someone will take it.

You guys have not disappointed me with the shit show. Thank you everybody, you're the real heroes.

if htis happened to a men it wouldnt be such a big deal noone would say anyhting

But why didn't she do something to stop him? I'm not saying it was okay for him to attack her, but it was a public event and she could've said "no" or yelled for security anytime and since I didn't read anything in this statement about her doing that, I can only conclude she must've consented to being slapped. And…

I'm going to dispute that. I think that "feminism" most properly means an *interpretive lens* on history and society that acknowledges that women face class-based discrimination. In other words, if you think women are and should be equal — that is, if you think they ARE equal, right now, and that all your individual…

This.