Disclaimer: huge Lochte fan (did you see those pics up there?) so not at all impartial.

I feel like i’m missing something here with this whole “scandal”. Lochte grossly “over exaggerated” a situation that happened in Brazil. Last time i checked, being a drunken douche isn’t against the law. I can’t understand how no one seems to think its a big deal that Brazil extorted these guys not once but twice. Not…

I hope this is sarcasm, but I think I’m wrong. If this is a real comment then dividing competitions into men’s and women’s is done for, which means women are done competing in sports.

Get a grip. Ledecky completely obliterated her world record times at these Olympics in the 400 and 800m freestyle. Had she raced in the men’s 400m, her world record time would have been almost 7 seconds behind the 8th place finisher. And while there wasn’t a men’s 800m this year for comparison, Ledecky is the world…

The issue here is that Semenya’s testosterone levels are beyond that 10 nmol/L...which is already significantly beyond what the “average” woman’s levels are, even a woman with PCOS. Semenya also had internal testes and was (if I remember correctly) XY. She was raised female based on her external genitalia. Her…

Not really. She’s intersex. She’s not fighting her body to feminize it by taking hormones, but she’s not supplementing her body either through doping. She just is existing as herself. It’s tricky as fuck. There’s a reason men and women have separate categories for racing, and unfortunately there isn’t an in between or…

However, we use some of those gifts of nature to come up with classes of competitors to make competitions more fair and interesting. For example, a woman who is 6'6" 200lbs would not be able to compete in the UFC because their highest weight class is 145lbs.

If other events like track or swimming weren't sex-segregated, women just flat out wouldn't win.

What. No. There are clear differences in performances between the genders. A woman would never get on the medal stand. Ever. (Excluding events such as shooting, equestrian, surfing, etc- more skill based than pure strength). While age differences may hinder the athletes in terms of performance, the difference in…

Isn’t it? I’m horrified at how fashionable it has become to be an unquestioning porn apologist. Porn is one of the biggest props of sexism and rape culture out there, but, hey.... staying on point with the accepted narrative is way more important than actually tackling that, right? Wouldn’t want to be one of those…

have you ever watched consensual gangbangs? i’ve seen a few, and they did not at all inspire or demonstrate respect towards the woman being gangbanged—it’s usually the opposite, with the guys saying gross and degrading things about the woman as they fuck her brutally in all three holes at once. it doesn’t look like…

“I don’t have the answers. People are fucked up and people will always get hurt. But I think there’s this weird trend to deny that there’s some fucked up shit involved with these industries and that, as a consumer, you should be aware of these issues and try to avoid contributing to them.”

I admit, I find it really hard to be cool with the porn industry (especially the growing pro-am porn industry) because of a human trafficking case I did some work on as a legal intern where women from Latin American countries were forced into this stuff. Nasty, facial abuse and slur stuff. There’s a lot to the…

While I’m not against porn myself, I’d also like to play devil’s advocate here: Blaming a single individual for this single crime is an over-simplification of the issue. Anti-porn advocates (along with many other perhaps more reasonable people) could point out that there are deeper cultural issues at play — the way…

That kind of really, really low blow–mocking a woman with the possibility that she’s had some kind of traumatic sexual experience–isn’t okay and isn’t accepted around here.

Where did you get this statistic that the “vast majority” of pornography is fully consensual (i.e. free of coercion by any means) and safe?

It’s pretty sad that you can’t have a genuine conversation about things that might affect girls and women on a women’s site.

This raises an interesting question. How exactly would such education happen? The schools would never be allowed to do it. Best option is parents sit down with their kids and teach them what “good” and “bad” porn is. Likelihood of that ever happening is probably around 0% in most households. Probability of your…

Whether porn is systematically destroying the moral fabric of America is a conversation for a different day . . .

I don’t think I can be convinced that porn is healthy for men. Ladies, whose boyfriends/husbands are pornheads, tell me honestly and not the “sex positive, politically correct, men pleasing” version, do your partners porn habits mean great/improved sex with better, more frequent orgasms for you personally?