About 15 years ago a friend and classmate was raped while studying abroad. She went through hell personally...she kept it secret from all of us, telling only a watered down version that a man grabbed and kissed her — we were all so horrified at that and told her how sorry we were that that had happened. A few months…

Meh. As someone with a soft tummy prone to IBS bloating that can make me look (and feel) seven months pregnant in the span of 20 minutes if I eat the wrong thing, leggings are a fucking godsend.

This is what makes me so crazy about the “Why would any real rape victim refuse to report the rape to the police?” narrative. The most probable result of reporting a rape to the police is that the victim will be grilled for hours about whether she wanted it, whether she said she didn’t want it enough times and…

This isn’t exactly a novel observation, but fitness and the appearance of engaging in exercise have become the new suntan, a sign of being wealthy enough to have the time and means to work out and eat healthfully.

I think it means that Athleisure is not for you, but extra cheese totally is. And some guacamole.

Many of the moms in my neighborhood and daycare seem to only wear yoga/athleisure type clothing. For me, it projects - as you say - they are fit and healthy and exercising. As if they are attempting to justify not working with an impression of perpetual exercise. They look like they spent a lot of money to look like…

I’m loaded up on athleisure because guilt-free pajamas in public is my jam.

Now the new “smoking gun” is a CDC study that found that in one data set, African-American boys who had been vaccinated, there was a higher incidence of autism that was statistically significant. This data wasn’t published. A CDC researcher discussed this dataset with an anti-vaxxer, and it quickly turned into claims…

Yes, my understanding is that most people freeze up. And most rapists are boyfriends, husbands, friends of their victims; a lot of time the victim does’ want to hurt them.

Did you see what we were wearing?

We need to be strong enough to fight it off.

This poem is always worth posting; “Rape Joke” by Patricia Lockwood.

Yep, that’s why no man ever has been raped, no drugs have ever been used to limit people’s ability to fight back, and rape is solely a thing that occurs in a dark alley when a tiny defenseless woman is attacked by a big strong man!

Exactly. That in itself is clearly evidence of a massive cover-up coordinated by the “establishment.” The entirety of modern medical researchers have plotted together to keep people from the “truth” so they can make mad profits off of generic childhood immunizations largely paid for by medicaid. Or something. Probably…

Are you a time traveler or ageless? That happened in 1514.

Many stars for the name.

Information illiteracy is, without a doubt, a contributing factor.

The fringe stuff used to be the domain of leafletters and self-publishers. With the internet, the kooks get the same platform as the academics and the voices of industry, which lends them instant legitimacy that they never actually had. I also blame whacko celebrities.

Like many of the olds (I am 40-something) I blame everything on the Internets.