Police have been known to disbelieve or discount women reporting that they have, in fact, been drugged and raped. And, there are times when the assaulted woman herself does not know she has been assaulted (https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/date-rape-drugs). It is unlikely the police can tell with a look. If they…

It is amazing to me that men don’t see that they too would benefit (directly and indirectly) from changes to toxic masculinity.

I think it is a perfectly plausible way to describe a victim of Rohypnol drugging and assault. When someone is given a drug to make them unconscious in order to allow someone else to assault them (i.e. sexually— and let’s face it you have already psychologically assaulted if you were drugged to rob you of your…

What is the point of this for women? It seems like a lose-lose for them.

I didn’t know either, I looked it up - it’s not gross so much as boring-seeming?

Wow, you are a nasty windbag ... with low levels of reading comprehension.

Wow, thank you so much for sharing your experience(s) with organizing. I have participated in organized events, but never as an organizer and never at a grass roots level when a movement is just being started. Your perspective is really helpful and I appreciate that you took the time to share it.

Sorry, I meant to add that I don’t see any of these people going to an awards show in black as taking any risk - low or not - by taking this action. It seems empty in this instance because the group they are aligning themselves with are (generally) already the ones publicly acknowledged and applauded. This might have…

Yes, but most often it is still taking a risk to publicly mark yourself in this way, you are outing yourself to people who may not want you to align with whoever you are supporting.

How about not calling wearing black a form of social action/solidarity? Not try to drape themselves in glory for this meagre, empty, virtue signalling act? Not try to simultaneously go and enjoy an evening while preening about their wokeness to the pain caused by the industry they are celebrating/being celebrated by?

I loved that show, and my favourite tagline is “We are of peace.” (Spoiler alert, I think it might have been a lie.)

It looks like the dress has a felt heart appliqued over her right breast. And the picture of her at the top of this post makes it appear that her left arm has been amputated.

That makes sense! I am willing to accept it as the correct answer and stop dwelling on this. It was taking up way more of my time than seems sensible.

I live in Ontario and there are some independent weed stores that sell medicinal weed to people with prescriptions for it, however, if you go in you find that they are really just selling to anyone who goes in. It is surreal to buy marijuana the same way you might anything else. The ‘budtenders’ give you advice, the…

You probably haven’t eaten any good food, you just don’t know enough to know it. I think I might be in the same boat — but for beauty, fashion and food. But, I soldier on. Yours in solidarity.

Yup, definitely about the love of books.

Oh, I agree. I am certain that the Toronto Zoo cared for them well, but I don’t know if these types of animals still wouldn’t have preferred to live a less ‘performative’ life. The donkey, at least, seemed like he might have had anger issues.

When I was a teenager we went to the Toronto Zoo’s petting area. There were goats and donkeys and sheep and maybe a llama? Anyway, we didn’t get any pictures because my mom was too busy laughing at the donkey biting my arm and not wanting to let go while I shrieked.

That hairstyle is great on him. Bey looks incredible, I wonder if she styled it herself? He’s such a lucky man.

Okay, I will treat you as if you are as stupid as you are pretending to be, but only because you seem to be begging me to do so.