Hey speak for yourself. Whenever I’m in the park watching the kids play on the slides and monkey bars I always think that maybe there is hope for the future and maybe just maybe the happiness that these young souls possess may remain through their adult years and the world may get just a little better as a result.…

It’s a fucking biological function, okay?

Netflix has actually created a pretty pretty large budget around this film for activism and education (someone I know is leading their organizing efforts) so while fatigue is understandable, there are those fighting this fight—beyond the cultural contribution of simply documenting this—and this film will be shown in…

Seeing that Sesame Street tweet makes me pissed again that Gordon got fired 😡

There was something I read recently that I don’t have in front of me right now where law enforcement spoke to a group of abusers who explained they absolutely have a system to go from “oh, so loving” into the cycle of violence. It’s planned a lot of the time, with dudes being able to spot someone who will be…

When they say that she “declined” the paperwork what they mean to say is a mom with three kids can't stand at the courthouse for 12 hours to wait for a judge to give her the paperwork.

I have no credentials to support this opinion, but in high school I was in what I sometimes call a “borderline abusive relationship.” In hindsight, there were definitely red flags. He fell in love with me within days, which made me very uncomfortable. I was 16 and had no idea what was going on, but the word he was…

What I want to know, in all honesty, is how do you avoid guys like this? I’m talking in the first stages of dating (because clearly there were warning signs later on if the cops were called for a domestic disturbance). I guess what I’m struggling with is the idea of this poor woman falling in love, making a life, and…

I’ve just been painting my own nails since this article came out. I never found getting my nails done relaxing and especially now it just stresses me out. I remember the last time I got my nails done at my usual salon in queens the girl painting my nails told me she lived in the building next door to me- a new high…

What does the kid who thinks he’s a fox say?

But has anyone made a Hall & Oates “I Can’t Go For That (No Kendu)” joke?

Patriarchy is toxic to society at large, even if some individuals (all of whom are men) benefit in terms of their power, influence, and wealth. If a very powerful and privileged man in an especially patriarchal society feels he has no choice but to behead his daughter for falling in love with someone who wasn’t chosen…

Jessamina is weirdly invested in minimizing this pretty awful reaction, and I don’t get why.

I’m so pissed that I have to comment again.

You are being more ridiculous than you might suspect. English is my second language and I was born in a third world country outside of North America. Whoa at your silly assumptions.

You can “see” how people might dismiss a frightened and crying woman because she’s upper class?

“Thought she was being overdramatic.”

“Thought she was being overdramatic”.

I guess in lieu of making something people actually like, you can intentionally under-perform and call it really edgy satire. I know when I’m insecure about the results of my efforts, I sometimes self-sabotage them - for example, if I’m making a piece of functional furniture and I want it to turn out way better than I…