It’s not that simple. Some of these Democrats (one of whom is my senator) face an uphill battle to be reelected, seeing as how they come from increasingly reddening blue dog states. If they were primaried and replaced with actual progressives, their seats would easily go to Republicans. Those Republicans would vote…

Remember the last government shutdown, when Republicans got 99% of that they wanted and still cried about mean ol’ Democrats making them shut things down? Why don’t you take that “neither party works together” bullshit and choke on it?

None of this matters because I don’t think the GOP cares. I don’t think Trump cares. I don’t think they’re sincere. I think they’re in it for themselves and I think they have a sinister agenda to get rid of as many brown people as they can from America. They literally have a white supremacist in the administration,…

She’s nothing but a blatant propagandist.

It’s so fucking predictable too. Put an article about income inequality or breaking up the banks on a leftist site and it gets tons of comments and interest. Put one up about women’s or POC rights and it’s crickets. Sometimes I just want to tell some of these leftists to become a full blown white supremacist and make…

This is my perception after listening to others who’ve been in Grace’s situation. Grace doesn’t know she’s met Jekyll & Hyde yet, so when he starts acting crazy...she still thinks it’s sweet Dr. Jekyll...so she stays. She wants Dr. Jekyll to comeback.

You don’t seem like the brightest bulb. That or this is Aziz Ansari’s burner account.

No dumbass during.

If you think a slender, small man is not a danger to a woman, you are completely deluded.

Why aren’t you asking “Why didn’t Aansari stop when she told him to?”

I recently re-read Obedience to Authority, in which Stanley Milgram describes how he asked people how they would act in a scenario that involved saying no when circumstances pushed a yes, and they all said they would stop and say no as soon as they wanted to, but when he put people into an actual experiment, very few…

Man— i can relate to this on so many deep levels. A boyfriend I had for a while in high school definitely used coercive techniques to get me to act sexually - threatening to tell my family and friends what kind of “slut” i was if i didn’t do the things he wanted to...

I was young and didn’t know that rape could occur…

Honestly? As a mom of 3 AND someone who just took an international flight with said 3.... I don’t think that screaming an expletive in their face would be a good idea, but turning around and saying something like “do you mind? Stop that.” Would probably stop most kids dead in their tracks. I mean, unless it’s an…

Or if the guy doesn’t like the post-sex outcome, he magically doesn’t have autonomy anymore and it’s the woman’s fault now.

Exactly.

This Aziz Ansari story has really shaken me. As some of you may remember (or maybe not, I’m certainly not that important), a month or two ago something finally clicked in my head- that I had been sexually assaulted when I was a teenager by my boyfriend at the time. We were both 16 (plus or minus a year, I can’t quite…

1. We do have a term for it - sexual coercion. It covers encounters like this that aren’t necessarily illegal, but aren’t exactly super consensual either, because one person made the other person feel like they couldn’t refuse sex. When someone is ignoring your attempts to shut sex down, it’s hard to be 100% sure that…

and his wife finally got him to confess to sending me “practical joke packages” (for the record, I don’t know if he told her what was in them),

Can you imagine being such a limp dick that you spent the time to remove women from a movie? Sad men are extra sad now. I made a very innocuous comment on a Samantha Bee Twitter post regarding the Aziz Ansari incident, and HOLY SHIT some of the comments to me were just horrible. And my comment was super tame. I wasn’t…

Michelle Williams is not a benchwarming QB in this analysis. She is an Academy Award winning actress. And the movie in question isn’t some shoot-em-up Transformers movie—it’s a dramatic piece. And, even if it was an action movie, $5 million versus $625,000 is ridiculous on its face for these two actors. ESPECIALLY…