Honestly, I wouldn’t expect campus health centres to carry rape kits. Taking those properly is a highly specialised job, and you noted there aren’t a lot of people trained to do it. Referring victims to a properly-equipped hospital seems reasonable to me.

That was my question, if this is her normal wear for hosting the show. If it wasn’t, it certainly would be unusual wear for such a grave story. It it’s what she normally wears...it’s a non-starter.

Well, the country wasn’t great for poor people, or black people, or women who weren’t happy having their lives controlled by someone else, or people with disabilities, or people who fell foul of a deliberately stacked legal system, or people who tried to raise their voice to protest those conditions. But it was amazing…

Agreed. People and institutions only change when the pain of changing is outweighed by the pain of staying still. If victims keep suing, universities will eventually realise that it will cost them more money and goodwill to protect their athletes and reputations, than it will to treat the victims properly in the first…

I agree on your opinion of the the man’s politics, but if they did the job on a promise of being paid expenses, they should be paid expenses. Although the guy said they had only a verbal agreement, so good luck enforcing that. It’s a lot of bad publicity that could have been made to go away with a few thousand bucks,…

Common or garden rape is not a sufficiently bad punishment for the crime of a woman linking to a news article with which this paragon disagrees. No, she has to be raped by a Syrian refugee. So for one, Shithead assumes she is in favour of uncontrolled entry for Syrian refugees. Thus, she will suffer the added anguish…

Or we could have a horror movie specially for frat boys. Where That Dumb Slut’s story is accepted and believed even though she’d been drinking. She is treated with respect and compassion by law enforcement, the judicial system and the media. He is treated as if he’d done something awful. No one cares about his…

My mother’s immortal commentary on Cosmo...

I’m gonna guess that’s a reference to his wife, who is an internationally recognised human rights lawyer. She’s also very beautiful. It fries the brains of a lot of reporters that she can do both.

Oh, agreed. I have nothing against people eating organic food if they want. It annoys me when people claim organic has health or environmental benefits when it has nothing of the sort. And it enrages me when they demonise campaign GMOs or other modern agricultural methods so much that some poor countries have been…

I see two people using their positions of privilege to stand up for the voiceless. Neither is likely to be shot dead during a traffic stop: Rapinoe because she’s a white woman, and CK because he’s sufficiently rich and recognisable to be “one of the good ones”. They both have jobs where they are regularly spotlit…

As a woman, she’s only been eligible to serve in all combat roles in the US military since 2013. As an openly gay person, she’s only been eligible to serve in the US military at all since 2011. She’s experienced discrimination and oppression in her own life, and is using her fame to draw attention to the…

*Bows*. Glad to be of assistance.

Honestly surprised she didn’t, she was that kind of lady. Mind you, other people did plenty of arse-kicking on her behalf. There’s too many to link, but if you google “colleen mccullough obituary” you will get a wide variety of reaction pieces applying the same standards to male authors. My personal favourite is…

I’ll repeat what I said in another reply. Some people see this as a loosening of beauty culture, increased representation of non-traditional models, generally a step forward and something to celebrate. I respect that opinion, but I don’t share it, and this is why.

I recently discovered a very satisfying method for dealing with the “It’s just a (feminist principle of your choice), it’s not important!” people. Ask them why, if it’s not important, people won’t stop doing it, and won’t change it if after the fact. Why don’t the content creators reply “Well sure, it’s just a word…

When Australian author and neuroscientist Colleen McCullough died last year, one of the premier national newspapers printed this as the opening of her obituary...

Probably depends on the country.

Yes, some boutique cheeses still use the original rennet. Most mass-produced ones now use an artificially-produced enzyme that does the same thing, but is suitable for vegetarians. But yeah, I’m not holding my breath on the guy in the original article applying logic to his food choices.

My first thought on reading this was the outfit worn by Australian runner Cathy Freeman when she won gold in the 400m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She isn’t Muslim. I’m not sure what the intent of the outfit was, but it was during the “clothing as competitive edge” era, so it was probably something to do with that.