There are of course legitimate instances of rape.

So basically you are regretting the “good old times” when you could fuck a drunk girl at a party and get away with it because everyone “understood” that she had it coming? Do you also regret the times when you could feel up a girl dressed like a slut without her raising a fuss?

He’s not talking about legitimate rape. You know, rape-rape. /s in case that isn’t clear.

I’m sorry that happened to you. I am glad you stuck through it and made them actually do their jobs. It’s literally the thing they are paid to do. FFS!

This is excellent. I kind of want to do something similar to this- a “birth” announcement upon completion/acceptance of my thesis. It’s my baby, dammit. I’ll obnoxiously post photos of me cradling and staring down at the hardcover bound book, listing all the details like, “she’s a solid 1.5 lbs, 8.5 x 11 inches, with…

This is truly delightful. I love the amount of effort she put into everything (the coffee mug, for example).

I started this diet a month ago, and it’s not really that bad! You just gotta get used to the crunch—I pretend I’m just eating gross, weird M&Ms with little legs that get stuck in my teeth. Protip on the hair: if you wet it down first it’s way easier to choke down. Got that little tidbit from Ted Cruz’s lifestyle blog.

It’s a measure of how much antipathy there is towards Amber Heard that nobody has suggested that maybe she gave him an ultimatum about sobering up. Maybe she couldn’t stand by and watch?

Yeah, that was actually the nail in the coffin for me. I already had connections to New Orleans and ended up moving here after the storm, so I was paying a lot of attention, but it was so blatantly obvious. It was so Third World, so insane to watch happening in the US. I can’t even picture white people in those images…

Me too. Where I live is liberal but the suburb I work in is extremely conservative so I never bring up politics unless there is a good reason for it (and I usually keep it local which is so much less black and white). That said, they know that I’m one of those easily offended whiny baby libruls so they never say…

100% this. When I left my home town in rural NY, there were I think 4 black people in the town, and the only Mexicans worked on the farms. Everyone else was white. Then I went to college, I was able to interact with people who came from different cultures, different backgrounds, people that had different beliefs and…

But then you have boys being sent to war that can’t vote against it. I can’t condone that.

This is totally me at my in-laws.

I don’t think she’s blaming others, she’s just highlighting the influence they had on her—she knows that she wasn’t very politically aware, and because she didn’t know enough about it to earnestly care about the issues, she used what resources were near at hand—her family and her boyfriend. I’m glad you made the…

I wish I could have been apolitical at 18.

For me it was Katrina. I remember the moment precisely, sitting in my parents’ kitchen while home for the weekend, and staring at black people who’d been sitting on a fucking bridge for multiple days, including children, and thinking “this would not be happening if they were white.” That was the first moment towards…

My little sis goes to a baptist college and will probably marry a preacher or something and I look forward to poisoning the minds of my future nieces and nephews with my left-wing feminist agenda.

Me too! Southern Baptist and all. I was even in an anti-abortion play in church once.

I don’t make a secret of my liberal politics to my neighbors, but I don’t broadcast them unsolicited, either. I’d rather wait until I have a solid reason to bring them up

Loved this. It so so so sums up my life politically—I grew up in rural Kentucky in a very conservative Southern Baptist family. When I registered to vote when I was 18, I registered Independent, but still voted Republican with my parents. When I was a freshman in college I was on the email list for the campus pro-life…