Thank you. I’m another person with chronic pain who takes prescription opioids (exactly as prescribed, and never more than I need) and has for years, because the alternative is that I would be in agony and unable even to get out of bed, rather than merely in constant severe pain but able at least to work and support…

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had the Bin Laden song stuck in my head for days.

I don’t have a problem with noting that magazines are more willing to feature women of color if those women still conform to traditionally white beauty ideals. What I have a problem with is that the author literally said, “if we count Christina Aguilera and Cameron Diaz as Latina.” It is entirely reasonable to point…

I’m a little uncomfortable with the question of whether we “count” Latina women who have relatively light skin and hair as Latina. (Also, Shay Mitchell is Filipino-American, and does not identify as Latina as far as I know. She also doesn’t look anything like Gina Rodriguez, so I’m not sure what happened there.)

Yep.

Somewhat horrifyingly, if I recall correctly, every state in the US lets kids get married well before they turn 18 as long as they have parental consent. Even more horrifyingly, quite a few of them specifically lower the age at which you can get married if a pregnancy is involved, because nothing says “good idea” like…

“She could have even have just been a history nut, and have info of New York City’s past, as well as it’s present-day layout and functions.”

Yeah, I hit a mental record-scratch on that bit, too. In what bizarro universe is Annie Potts “weird looking” or not conventionally attractive?

After the first time I was raped, I doubled down on my belief in rehabilitation and my condemnation of vengeance, because I felt like I needed to prove that I was better than my rapist, that I wouldn’t stoop to his level. After the first time a partner hit me, I swore that I would never, ever willingly hurt another…

Even if “#notallmen” was ever an intelligent thing to post in response to this kind of story (spoiler alert: it isn’t!), you do know that it’s possible to hurt people in ways that don’t actually leave them dead, right? And that men who rape and abuse women are not anywhere near “exceedingly rare”? And that virtually…

You know, I’m pretty okay with not getting men “jumping on board” if those men are such petulant, self-absorbed little babies that they can’t deal with the idea that being beaten, raped, or murdered is objectively worse than a woman not wanting to date you. I have no interest in recruiting “allies” whose ally status…

They are thinking rationally, sadly. It’s actually depressingly rational for a guy to believe that he can rape a friend and get away with it without facing any real consequences, because the overwhelming majority of the time, he can. (If anything, getting away with raping a relative stranger may well be harder, since…

It’s worth remembering that there usually aren’t much in the way of “repercussions” for rapists, because a huge percentage of people, given the choice between accepting “my friend/family member is a rapist” or “the person who said my friend/family member is a rapist must be mistaken/lying/trying to create…

Honestly, I think art has always been a mixed bag - it’s just that the pieces we still care about from hundreds of years ago are the ones that stood the test of time, while contemporary art is necessarily going to be a mix of pieces that are actually legitimately awesome and enduring and pieces that no one is going to…

Heh, no worries. Happens to the best of us. :)

Erm, I think maybe you misread my comment. It is directed at Rico, and I agreed with Eoghan. (Or is Kinja being stupid today? It definitely shows up on my end as a reply to Rico...)

Given that the women on this school board were able to make a decision that reflects the knowledge that making contraception more easily available to teenagers decreases teen pregnancy rates and leads to better outcomes for everyone involved, that roughly half of the teenagers using these health centers said that they…

Yeah, there’s that, too. Besides (obviously) being disgusted, I was also just freaking baffled when Whoopi Goldberg called what Polanski did “not rape-rape” several years ago. If drugging a child and then forcibly sodomizing her while she says “no, stop” isn’t “rape-rape,” then I have no idea what the fuck is.

What the fucking fuck.?!

I’m so sorry you’ve dealt with all that. I’ve also had a depressingly large number of experiences of rape and abuse, but at least I was fortunate enough to be an adult before it started happening. (And boy, isn’t that a depressing thing to consider “fortunate”?)