She can’t win. When she’s legitimately snarky (Exhibit: the “deplorables” comment), she gets dragged for being mean. When she’s scripted snarky (Exhibit: “Trumped-up trickle-down”), she gets dragged for being fake. When she’s serious, she gets dragged for being cold and calculating. When she’s genuine and honest,…

Oh man. I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to prosecuting sexual assault, Canada is worse than the U.S. Our conviction rate is a fraction of a percent. There’s a far distance between Canadians’ progressive ideals and how rural police departments systematically ignore this class of crimes. This goes literally…

lena dunham: I’m the victim here! Me! Me!

lena dunham : profile in courage.

Was Gigi Hadid’s Melania Trump impression “racist”?

It should be required that all Americans learn about the internment of Japanese Americans. In addition, we should also teach kids that even after shoving them into camps and treating them like scum, Japanese American men actually volunteered serve in the military to defend their country. The 442 Regiment fought in the…

Or just one invitation to go fuck herself.

“Instead we got a guy who can’t find his asshole with two hands and a flashlight.”

She looks like a fired bullet

The scenario plays out perfectly in Internet commenting form in the first thread above. Just find the guy that is saying “fuck you” to everyone who is calmly trying to explain a woman’s POV when he laments that a woman seemed scared of him because he was following her for several city blocks to the same hotel…

I was talking to a friend’s (quite young) male cousin once, and he told me he’d asked out a girl at his gym (groan) and was bummed because now she was being “all awkward about it.”

‘Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.’ - Margaret Atwood.

I have a ring with my birthstone that I wear on my right hand. Occasionally if a guy is really getting aggressive, I’ll switch it to my left and pretend it’s an engagement ring. The guy ALWAYS backs off then. I remember once, one guy put his hands up and said “Respect, respect” and walked away. And I was thinking, oh,…

I just want to remind everyone that even if you have not experienced violence or harassment due to rejecting unwanted advances you absolutely know someone who has, this is as horrifying as it is common.

Boy do I hate being a man right about now...we are assholes and murderers...

The Crown Attorneys *did* see the blue wall closing in and decided to mirror the logic in R v Sarrazin, a 2010 case that reached the Supreme Court of Canada as 2011 SCC 54.