I don't understand the eagerness to attribute this man's actions and misogyny to mental illness.

Part of being a woman is being shamed for saying yes, and attacked for saying no. And guilty of something either way.

It's tragic, isn't it? It's a corruption of one of the most powerful, intimate, human experiences that's available to us. I certainly don't believe in the idea that all sex is rape. (Fun fact: Catherine MacKinnon never actually wrote that, what she actually said was: Perhaps the wrong of rape has proven so difficult…

"Mental illness" is an excuse used when privileged White males commit crimes against less privileged people.

Sorry but a selfish misogynistic asshole is not mentally ill. If I walk down the street and a man gets so mad that I didn't take the time to give him my number that he calls me a ugly bitch he is not mentally ill. If I get on the train and a man feels on my ass during rush hour while pointing a knife at my back he is…

I just keep thinking: will they believe us now? Is this finally the moment when men start to grasp the reality that women live in?

When can we expect the post from the "nice guy," who — of course — doesn't think women deserve to be assaulted, but they really need to learn to give "nice guys" a chance instead of spreading their legs for jerks. Because if they opened up for "nice guys," then "nice guys" would be less frustrated, and women would be…

The whole thing is heartbreaking and any man who can't acknowledge the subliminal fear women have to deal with in nearly every interaction with the opposite sex is in denial of the grim reality of our culture.

I am really sick of seeing sex framed as an object that one can give or receive rather than an experience. It's one of the fundamentally erroneous assumptions in so much discourse on this issue.

My theory is that pushback against pretty much every social issue comes down to comfort. We HATE being pushed out of our comfort zones. Liberals seem somewhat better about taking care of others' comfort as part of our own, but we're also notoriously bad about deciding their comfort for them, making us often unreliable…

I have never needed to retweet anything, EVER, with the complete and overwhelming sense of urgency that I have to retweet that tweet. That one. Right there. NOW.

"Men and boys need to see that regardless of whether or not we ALL do these things, ALL women are given reason to worry that we might."

As I said, I have lived my entire life in a community that is both notoriously plagued by violence and one that often uses language that may seem violent but has actually been transformed into different meanings. No, I don't find it triggering. I have encountered people throughout my life who have said and heard…

Smh. Dear, you aren't the only academic here, so don't feel too special—some of us don't find it necessary to drop titles and degrees garnered in an effort to be considered more important than everyone else. Other solid human beings on this message board—even those of us *gasp* without advanced degrees—find it…

As a guy who was already fairly aware that these things take place, it still felt like being hit by a tsunami reading all these tweets yesterday and this morning.

I don't know. I live somewhere that is extremely violent often with 50+ people shot every weekend and we still say "kill 'em" and "murk that" and stuff like that. It's not triggering to me or anyone that I have ever met—praise language like that exists in a totally different sphere than real violence.

What about them? Would you rather have that kind of attention placed on you? I sure as hell do not. I'm one of those girls whose male peers never hit on me or tried picking me up. At the time, it bugged me because as a teen, I was self-conscious about my appearance. The only time I would get harassed would be with…

Um, have you ever heard of a METAPHOR?! Many songs talk about killing people on the dance floor. Or murdering on the floor. It's a description of being an awesome dancer. Are you going to rally against make-up videos that that teach us how to 'beat our faces to filth?' It's called the subversive language of…

Interesting responses. I've seen so many pro-Honey Boo Boo posts on this site and how her Mama June is wonderful because of her message of body acceptance to her children. Yet Lil TerRio is the one being exploited because of one music video. Ok.

Currently curating quite the crop of queer hip hop artists. So allow me to share Cakes da Killa: