It's not exactly "victim-blaming." He assaulted her first. Let's please remember all the damage that could result from nonconsenting condom-free sex: pregnancy with all its attendant health risks, abortion, a kid (at the age of 17!), HIV, HPV, syphillis, gonorrhea... We don't know that any of those things have…

Wait, so it isn't that peeing before sex causes UTIs, rather it is not peeing after p in v sex that causes it. But if you truly have to pee, won't sex with a full bladder be uncomfortable and not worth it. Feels like another way to make straight ladies worry about sex rather than enjoy it.

I would have stuck my fingers in my vagina and painted fuck you with period blood on the wall, but I'm an animal.

I'm sorry, but fuck this. I share the dislike for the kind of attitude that certain men have about tacky jewelry being a good way to attract chicks, for sure (and I'm also sympathetic to some of the aesthetic objections). But it's incredibly bad, on a more basic level, to promote these kind of limiting and repressing…

I was homeschooled. I followed a normal curriculum that had no religious influence at all. I was supervised by a credentialed teacher who I could email or call if necessary. I graduated two years early from high school. Nothing wrong with homeschooling if it's done right.

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 'blah blah study size' comments always bug the shit out of me. Yes, many studies need more participants to work. But our funding in the sciences is so fucked up that you basically have to have done the work or be expanding on really firm ground to get funding. If only every armchair statistician dropped a line to…

You probably just want to save the headline "Antibiotics for [blank] just aren't working like they used to." It's probably going to make things a lot easier.

I figured she put Ron and Hermione together because she hated chemistry.

The US is the only Western nation without these following rights:
- paid maternity leave
- paid sick leave
- paid vacations

That's capitalism for you. Meanwhile here in "socialist" Germany, citizens have the right to:
- 18 weeks of paid maternity leave
- one year paid parental leave after birth (for both parents each)
- 200…

Those are not advantages. Take it from someone who has been perceived as both a "man" (or at least a boy/young "man") and a woman (note which one of those has quotes). Those are rooted in the idea of the inferiority of women and the belief that women's places are in the home.

I have thought long and hard about this piece. The author's story is powerful. I agree fully with everything the author says about the terrible damage we do to children by enforcing the gender binary, I agree with everything they say about how the kind of conventional masculinity that our society demands of men is…

Hi. German here. Here is a link from the Frankfurter Allgemeine about this case. This story certainly does not say that the accused murderer and his friends are being coddled. I assure this is an extremely unlikely scenario, that a foreign national would be "coddled" by the Polizei here. Germany has a different legal…

Moreover, Conflict Kitchen's (largely conservative) pro-Israel critics are still propagating the frankly insane notion that the restaurant has some responsibility to include the perspective of both sides of the conflict.