From his description it sounds like a movie about a man disguised as a movie about women: the important thing about these women is what they taught HIM.

ugh!!!! My father says my mom brainwashed me 2. Also that we're incestual, & that she has munchhausen's. I think they are so desperate for any reason y their children might hate them besides the real reasons. The ironic thing is those bullshit reasons hurt just as much & just goes to show that they're willing to say &…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

Food banks are another location that can distribute feminine products! We always try to include some feminine products, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, etc when we donate. Food assistance programs vary by type and location, but in a lot of places you can't use those funds for anything that's not actual food,…

I have known countless professors and colleagues in the field of cultural anthropology who are against criticising another culture for practices that many westerners find oppressive. Not a single one would be against the critique of genital mutilation, as it causes physical harm to an individual and is often done…

The link worked for me. I read the whole thing. Extremely powerful. Usually I give my gold stars for silly, happy, fun things, but this gets it as well:

The linked article is phenomenal.

god...that essay you linked is horrific. I mean, it's very well written, which only adds to the horror and disgust I feel on behalf of this woman.

I just read every word of Mariya's essay. Holy shit.

Yeah, that's a key difference. It's one thing to call for acceptance of the fact that people live their lives differently in other cultures, but extending that to accepting people perpetrating harm on unwilling others is absurd.

The audience is very likely People Who Buy Fashion Dolls At Target.

If these guys were soooo serious about "feeling bad" about not being able to bring a child into this world, there are plenty of needy children out there in big brother programs or even older children/teens in adoption centers ...but that would require actual responsibility and not just staring off into the distance on…

I'll just stick with the comic.

Dear Bros,

I get sooo maaad when I see Christian guys attempting to take the pro-life stance. Dudes, do you even know what this argument is about? No! You don't!

No "I'm sorry I fucked you before we were ready for children"? Or "I'm sorry I fucked you without a condom and enough spermicide to choke an elephant"?

Who did they entrust to do the photoshopping? Is there some super-enlightened Orthodox guy working for the newspaper who can handle looking at female politicians without being overcome with lust?

This is exactly how I got raped. I was hooking up with a friend of mine. I have vaginismus and a whole fun host of issues (and at the time, even a positive HIV test, which he knew about. It was a false positive, but he didn't know that at the time), I said no penetrative intercourse.

The nude leotard is nude because Sia wanted to strip everything from the dancers and make them seem vulnerable, which reflects the feelings she had as a child. Maddie represents a young Sia, hence the wig - it's the same cut as Sia's hair. Shia is supposed to evoke her father who dealt with mulitple personality…