Controversial feminist opinion ahead:

Going to Oprah regularly is probably the only way to make sure dissection or similar does not happen. There ARE some terribly unethical scientists out there. I’m speaking from working and living with some of them for longer than I’ll ever be comfortable again. Some scientists think ethics are for low-brainers and that…

The best!

This is tangentially related, but: my mom works with several innocence organizations and is a pro bono medical expert for the defense in child abuse cases (the science on shaken baby is really, really weak and lots of innocent people are going to jail because old, dogmatic, criminally irrational doctors just effing…

Reddit could so easily be a great site if it wasn’t so heavily dudebro-dominated. Even as it is, if you stay out of the main subreddits, there’s some interesting discussions. I really wish there was a Reddit equivalent that skewed as heavily female as Reddit skews white male. I suppose there’s Tumblr but the format…

fuck reddit

Pygmalion. It’s part of the collective conscious. We still live in a patriarchy.

The marital abuse issue is surely a massive deal here? It’s all well and good saying she should have used protection, should have aborted etc. etc. but if she was that scared of the consequences of any of those actions, she may have felt this was her only choice. It’s heartbreaking, really.

Nope. Living in a city does not allow you carte blanche to do whatever you feel like.

Oh, ok thanks for that!

I don’t think they should be harassed and threatened, but misgendering her after her death was not cool.

They made mistakes. Likely they regret them. They were a family mourning the death of their child, and they were harassed and abused.

Not that difficult, because Prince William’s pretty years are loooooong behind him, and he looks like he puts pussy to sleep.

My surname is common as hell, but my wife's name is more or less unique (except for her sister, but she took her husband's name). When we got married, she kept her maiden name and, if we decide to have kids, they'll use hers.

I quit the series after the beating - call it what it was, he used his belt - not because of the beating itself (it's quite correct that women were and still are beaten), but because it was perfectly clear that Gabaldon intended that Claire and Jamie would go right on screwing each other's brains out. And I'm sorry,…

So, as the world was gearing up for Outlanders return, I asked my Facebook feed if it was something I needed to watch. I've never read the books and even though everyone has been raving about the series, I never got into it. But I saw all the positive, feminist-y articles and when my Facebook feed shouted YES at me, I…

THANK YOU. Kate Middleton’s style bores me to tears, always has. I think a lot of the admiration she gets is actually about her being extremely thin, with long flowing locks. Just like a princess!!!!

To me she didn't need to include that bit seeing as she really did not research it to see if it was historically accurate, she said it was historically accurate and yes spousal abuse did happen back then but it was not as common as she said it was and she didn't have to romanticize it. . The author is an awful person…

"cause men in his generation never learned how to talk."

If you're worried about functionality you could just wear pants. I have a hard time believing most women wear mini skirts so its easier to catch the bus.