My mum relentlessly misuses the phrase 'whack off' to mean steal. I've repeatedly told her that "One of the neighbours whacked off with our hose!" doesn't mean what she thinks it means, but I can't bring myself to tell her what it actually does mean. So she'll shrug off my correction, thinking I'm just being a…

You were trying to get on the FuckNoJezebel tumblr, weren't you? 'Fess up!

Get tired of trolling articles to do with racial issues, so you're jumping into the mommy wars debate, eh?

With this article, Jezebel's devotion to Hugo Schwyzer, their continued exploitation of Courtney Stodden (a victim of abuse, if I ever saw one), and the constant screw ups over race (Halo Barbie, anyone?) I just.....can't. I'm ashamed that I recommended this site to people in the past.

Me too. It was excruciating. When the show was on, I kept frantically searching online for criticisms of the blatant racism, but I only found criticisms of the show's quality. The racism was generally skirted around or outright dismissed. Which was somehow more disappointing for me than the show itself.

I'm definitely linking to this article when MRA types ask why feminists are so keen for equality but still want their womanly perks, of which "women and children first" is an MRA favourite. Nice to know that most women here think it's bull honky.

Is it weird that it makes me question my own ability to be brave in a time of need? Like you, I don't think that I'm better than anyone else, and obviously I don't know how I'd respond in an awful situation without having experienced it, but I always just assumed that I'd try to help others and do the right thing.…

Love it. I watched the whole thing imagining that it was a single tumbleweed, and this was the story of her journey across America.

Wow. Sooooo not okay to say that.

She was clearly just too pleased with her "my body was raped! My body of WORK that is, har har" joke. Prizing wit over sensitivity - especially when 'wit' only applies so very loosely - is kind of sad.

I think I'm having the maternal reaction that her own mother didn't, because the only thing this clip brought out in me was a strong desire to slap Jason Alexander's hands away from that 17 year old's body. Even if she wasn't a likely victim of abuse, just...ugh.

I think I can see where you're coming from. It's like what Descarada said about her experiences in her comment, children who are abusive are likely getting it from somewhere, and most likely an adult is responsible for starting a cycle of abuse.

I'm so sorry that happened to you, and that so many of the adults in your youth failed you, and your abusers. You deserved so much better.

I might be wrong, but I think almost everyone who is single for long periods of time gets a bit of this. The differing degrees to which people have assumptions made about them is weird and inexplicable to me, though. When I was living with my best buddy, we would get stopped in the supermarket by creepy old men asking…

You make some valid points here - most of which I disagree with, but I can see their merit - and I think I'm just going to have to agree to disagree with you. I think we're just fundamentally opposed in terms of how much government regulation should take place in people's lives, and that isn't something we can really…

I know I should walk away from this whole mess, but arguments with strangers on the internet are my catnip. This may not be halo Barbie level crazy, but it's still interesting.

Please tell me all about my obvious prejudices. By the way, I agree with mandatory seatbelt and bicycle helmet laws too. Guess I just don't think anybody is a person with decision making abilities.

Your whole initial post accused those of us who think condoms should be mandatory of willfully ignoring the experiences of those in the industry, putting our personal ideals ahead of the health of performers, and viewing sex-workers as lesser people. I don't think that was appropriate or accurate. If that was directed…

Of course not! I mean, sometimes I sit in a rocking chair out the front of my house with a big plastic bag full of condoms, and I throw them at all the women that walk past, while cackling wildly at the thought of the slow and agonising death that awaits them.

I know. I even checked the comments on the old jez articles on the same topic, and the same argument came out, with the same requests for links, and.....nothing. It's an interesting pattern. I did some pretty determined google scholar searching on the topic, too, but....yeah.