It does esp since this divide has been evident since the 90's if not earlier. I used to study American Evangelicalism (i've since switched fields) but for most of the 20th century the views loudly proclaimed now by 'Christians' in the media and in politics were considered very fringe by most mainline protestants. In…

Next time you feel you can reduce someone's faith into a two sentence post with advice on how that person should interact with it...don't.

Speaking as a man, I don't see what the big deal is. You don't want us men to rape you women. Fine. We've started cutting back on the rape. Or at least trying. We've even taken your requests to stop beating women so much under consideration.

This is difficult to talk about but re: this part:

Seriously who are these people who don't understand that one can punish without being cruel and why are they allowed to be in charge of anything

My issue with it is that it's mean. On a Great Santini level. Discipline shouldn't be cruel - the kid (who is a kid, btw) fucked up, and gets his fave toy taken away for a month, a year, whatever. To march the child to the store and make him watch the present being RETURNED is fucking mean.

Consent isn't the absence of no. When you consent, you're actively saying "yes".

"It is easier than trying to basically raise two children, one of them an actual adult, at the same time."

There will be more studies like this about high-powered/promising women, one of which I'm part of, and they'll implicate husbands and the usual suspects in business, though perhaps more forcibly than before.

My husband tried to pull this shit on me after talking a long bullshit 50/50 child/home-work line, and for the…

Single mom here, with a perhaps unpopular opinion. My life is actually easier post-divorce. My ex thought he did enough of the house work and child care, but to him that meant giving the baby a bath maybe once a week, doing the dishes once in a blue moon, and running to the store when we ran out of something. I find…

All of these problems can be avoided by discussing with your partner what's going to happen when kids come before you get married and before you're expecting. AS LONG AS BOTH PARTIES THEN ACT ACCORDINGLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE AND THE KIDS COME. I see this all the time in comments sections. Ugh. Wow, all you people who…

Maybe I'm being naive in thinking there just seems to be an explosion of predatory behavior among young men today versus when I was in high school and college twenty years ago, but I wonder how much abstinence only sex-ed, with its focus on the risk of pregnancy and its inherent slut-shaming, has led to this? It seems…

He's male, and his victim is female. That's all it takes.

I'm so glad I'm not a teen.

Next time someone asks why people don't go to the police, remember the misinformation that Jan and Grace were given. Staff at your local crisis centers will know the laws, as well as be trained for this situation. I once had to go toe to toe with a cop who was victim blaming my service user as she lie in bed waiting…

Yay! A man is here to weigh in on why an infallible criminal justice system that was designed by people like him, to protect people like him, is logically sound and thus real-life experiences don't hold water against it's theoretical might!

I went to the police when I was raped my freshman year of college. They told me it was out of their jurisdiction and it would have to be handled by campus police and a student hearing. The campus police simply alerted the administrative staff, we had a "hearing" (in which I had to confront my older rapist face to face…

A rape survivor was told by the campus police on my campus not to report because she had been drinking and so no one would believe her. We are currently under investigation by the DOE as well. Another girl was just raped this semester at a sorority house and it was hushed up. Even by the sorority sisters because they…

I think that's a big part of the reason that guys like Cosby, Ghomeshi, Singer, Sandusky and so forth are able to hide in plain sight...because the people associated with them want to protect their own reputations, as well as the reputations of the relevant institutions and industries.

This just breaks my heart: