This almost makes me want to learn how to knit.

SAME. If I could find the secret to finally being un-greyed I will happily share it.

exxxxactly. I love when someone else can organize the word soup in my head.

I don't understand the pearl clutching about social justice

'We just really don't know is all I'm saying.'

Yes, but the alternative for her could have been, not to lead an army of blood thirsty, murderous louts in the first place.

Yeah this bit - "captured women were hung off the side of the ship by their hair" (im assuming until they drowned or died of exposure) - really put a damper on this KICK ASS article

But to say that she "Banned Rape" as the HEADLINE of the article suggests is bullshit. This was in no way the banning of rape. She just didn't want her sailors raping the captives when they should be pillaging and plundering and taking as yet more captives.

I haven't commented here for a long long time because I've been pretty much fed up with this place, but your comment sums up about everything. Yes, yes, and yes, she was not an awesome pirate woman who was anti-rape. What is this article doing here.

So....

Progressive for the time, yes, but I'm still surprised by the fangirling tone here. Letting pirates pick sex slaves from the captives is not exactly something to squeal and flail about.

I like how the crux of the article is how she forbade rape, but then you read it and it's not even true?

that is what I was thinking the entire article. You can't rape them in public, just on the ship in secret. If she says okay. Just sounds like she is a control freak, not some empowering force.

yeah, I hate to be a downer, but trying to make "you can only rape captives WITH PERMISSION" into "rah rah girl power!" is a bit of a stretch

sounds like she just changed it so she had a monopoly on rape, giving permission slips to do it...

"Under 25 preferred. Any older than that and you'll come with an attitude and blame me for your situation."

In a just universe, homeless (but queer and larcenous) waif answers the ad, slips something in the guy's drink to make him sleep, then ties him naked to the bed. Then she and her girlfriend ransack his place, take anything of value, and find the PINs for all his cards. They depart after taking a few pics of him naked…

Now that you mention it, I do remember texas.

His place is so clean and generically decorated! Do you think he used the photos from the ads before he moved in, and photoshopped the Lays in to add some personality, or do you think he cleaned up real nice before taking pictures so he could prey on the homeless girl of his dreams?

WTF! Average body size?