Sure, but even if you want to slam body parts, there are social niceties to observe. See, it's a (potential transaction). "Adam" wants gm to do weird wrestle-fetish stuff with him. His kink isn't even that weird, but the time to bring it up is not RIGHT OFF THE BAT. Let's analogize. Let's say I want to sell my house.…

All I can say about all of this is I am fucking thankful to be married and boring. Right now my husband and I are both lying on the couch, head to foot. He is writing a brief and I am, uh, fucking around on this site. Our kids are asleep downstairs and I can read this article knowing that for the foreseeable future I…

Yes. At 15 I would get off the school bus, carrying a backpack and several times I had the experience of a man running out of a restaurant after me to ask me out/tell me I was beautiful. I was like, "Uh, you see this backpack? Which is covered in duct tape because of all the books in it that cause it to break? And…

Yeah, I didn't like that comment either. Unhelpful kneejerk reductionism. It just basically reduces the issue down to "This happens because men suck". Just not worthy of discussion, for real.

I think you will find that folks on this site will not agree with you that abortion is sad. And I don't think it is for all women. For many it's just a giant relief. For me, it would be sad, yes. But I am not everyone.

Yes, exactly. I'm pleased that he's more focused on, like, feeding people than castigating them for having sex, but I'm not heading back to that church any time soon.

Ex-Catholic here. I believe in a woman's right to bodily autonomy. But for reals Jezebel, what exactly do you expect from the Pope? He's THE POPE. Yes, he's going to be against abortion. It's because he's THE POPE.

I don't think he raped her because she rejected him. I think he just raped her because he wanted to rape her. It's an important distinction.

I think she actually had sex with him (no whiskey dick, I guess? Or wait — he's Irish and they're used to doing it drunk! HA IRISH PEOPLE ARE FUNNY) and the whole season will be about her blackmailing him and/or faking pregnancy and/or really being pregnant with his Irish-crazy lady wicked cross-breed baby.

Yeah, that's not incest, not even by today's standards, and certainly not by the standards of a century ago when everyone was like, "First cousins? Shit, if they're hot/rich/can preserve the family's estate, go for it!" I was trying to think what the incest story line was too and can't come up with anything more than…

I get what you're saying. I just don't think this proposed law has anything to do with equal rights for dads.

I could not have said this better.

That is not the point. The intent of child support laws is not to provide enough for kids to live on and have a good life. The intent is to put the kid in about the same situation as he would be if he still lived with both parents - which in this case, means that the kid(s) should be living like a millionaire. The…

Yeah, but I'm sure the Branson/Braithwaite sexual assault won't actually be treated as one. It'll be more of an "oopsie, Branson did something naughty" type thing. Which is really a shame.

Well, sometimes rape can be a good plot point, or a good jumping off point to get into gender/class issues. So, necessary? I don't know about necessary, but useful, sure. Still, this felt like a missed opportunity to talk about class and gender. That it was done by a fellow servant, and not by one of the gentry, means…

Thanks for actually mentioning the Branson/Braithwaite potential rape scenario. Anna's rape was more flat-out horrifying, but most of the media outlets have completely ignored passed-out Branson being possibly sexually assaulted by the batshit crazy maid.

Uh. It is for some people. I do not recall attempting to crawl out of my bed, but I labored for 17 hours before finally getting an epidural (I should have done it earlier but believed the hype about natural childbirth). While I wasn't exactly screaming, I was definitely making a weird howling noise and was in…

Yes. That's what I use it for. And where I live, people usually say thank you when you do it. It's an invitation to the person behind you to start loading their groceries onto the belt. If they are, for instance, a mother shopping with three small kids, that means that the mom can stop distracting the kids from the…

Nope! No paid maternity leave guaranteed. My employer, the military, is nice enough to give me six weeks. With both of my kids I've taken an extra week or two, but dropping off an 8 week old baby at daycare is just not easy. I believe strongly that I should never have had to do it.

For the most part they're not actually poorly treated. The issue is their never-ending detention without trial.