How is it admirable to strongly believe in something in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

I think, though, that you have to balance that against the reality that there are a lot of people for whom religion has and continues to be a horrible thing. I think you can think religion is horrible while believing that there are good religious people.

Quit turning to religion to fill what ever void you feel needs filling. Take up painting, or knitting, martial arts. It doesn't make you better person and religion has no answers.

It's amusing to see people complicate a painfully obvious subject. And they pat themselves on the back for struggling with it, as if their moral equivocation is admirable.

Stop saying the bible defines marriage as one woman and one man. The bible endorses all types of marriage as long as the man has the power. Multiple wives, concubines, women earned through conquests or war, bigots of today want you to believe that's what the bible says but it isn't very exclusive.

"I guarantee you a significant number of these 500 guys know who the rapist is and are deliberately covering for him. " wow that is a terrible assumption. Believe it or not most men aren't evil. If it's a student MAYBE one other person knows. If it was a teacher not likely at all. The only time and you can see this…

Vagina bearing woman here and I'm so not ok with this. Narrow down your search to actual, probable suspects and test them. Every male 14 and older at that school cannot possibly be a suspect. They are violating people's rights under the threat of arrest instead of doing an actual investigation.

That's also the sort of thing that will render STR DNA testing useless, because currently CODIS only tracks 13 short tandem repeat loci, that much extra information will produce so many false positives that you might as well go back to fingerprinting everyone.

So... I'll just throw it out there: firstly, I don't think this really addresses the issues with rape kits being untouched (that's bureaucratic bullshit at work), and I also think this is a gross abuse of state authority in a criminal investigation.

...but this still seems kinda beneath you Lindy.

I am seriously tired of religion being this big of a discussion in 2014. It shouldn't even fucking matter anymore. It really, really shouldn't. Religion should be irrelevant when the discussion is equality, civil rights, and letting people live as they choose. Period.

Did I say, anywhere, that I agree with rape jokes? I find them obscene. I find comedians who reflexively refer to women as "bitches" obscene. I find guys who harass female employees obscene and men who discount the intelligence of women both insecure and ridiculous.

You said a few things in this article that seem completely unfair. Namely, this.

"If you're an able-bodied straight white male, you are by definition a member of the least number of systemically oppressed groups. It takes an entire blog post for me to make you feel diminished and misunderstood (my bad)—but you could do…

Perfect and truthful. I think blogs in general serve to deceptively undermine the best interests at hand of many potentially smart people and this is why there is an en-masse movement of self-entitled nobodys who can't wait to garner a few extra 'blog stars' to make up for their lack of work ethic & talent.

Jesus. Get a grip. Read what I actually wrote. I agree with her. I do not agree with her writing style. Huge difference. I suggested she might have a more receptive audience if she didn't lump all men together. You wouldn't like it if I said all women overreact, would you?

If we are to take those statistics seriously then you should know Hispanic women only make 59.8 cents on the white man dollar versus white women at 80.5 cents. So whose oppressed here? In fact no other group exceeds white men or women in except Asians. Speaking of Asians:

Can you NOT speak for all women? Maybe you can say "women like me" instead?

Agreed. I'm a straight male (mixed-race, but ostensibly white), and I always find a portion of these tirades to be a hacksaw approach. I find rape jokes repugnant (even the "good" ones). I find rape repugnant. I find what is called "rape culture" repugnant. Still, saying "not all men" is weak.

But lindy, no one thinks your opinion is less vaild becuase you are a woman, its becuase you are not a comic. And let's get real, you aren't. You are a talented if inflamitory blogger who likes comedy a lot and is , at best a hobbyist at performing stand up. No one is ever telling Amy Schumer or Wanda Sykes they have…

I am a woman. I don't live each day in misery and fear. I've had a pretty great life, in fact, and I make stuff I love and no one has ever bothered me. Does this mean I'm overly privileged, or just shallow?