Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series is sectioned as Young Adult, but I love those books, especially because of his descriptions of maturing and understanding adolescence and adulthood.
rainbowdashcrash
rainbowdashcrash
Jez doesn't do apologies.
While I agree with you, I would also settle for someone from Jez pulling out something like "We here at Jezebel just want to say that Doug Barry is a dumbfuck and his article from last Sunday was total shit."
I was waiting on a chance to speak with someone at RAINN (which didn't happen until this afternoon). While ideally the turnaround time would be quicker we both needed to find time in our schedules to talk. I didn't want to write about this without talking to them.
Uh, I don't think it was a satire. It was a (poorly written) twilight fan fiction that got picked up by the mainstream. Also, Christian Grey in the books is 28. Hardly an old man. It's like having Zuckerburg spank you
I think both. I see two very clear messages from the otter here, and I wish s/he had run across people observant and understanding enough to grok both of them:
He says ‘I don’t get it, why are you still a virgin at 24?’
Chris Brown has a singular talent for making it impossible to sympathize with him even if he’s recounting a vaguely traumatic incident from his childhood. You know, like that time he lost his virginity to teenage girl. When he was eight.
This is one of the first things that makes me feel sorry for Chris Brown. Yeah, he's internalized the message that boys can't be sexually abused. Yeah, he's an asshole (a lot of the effects of abuse manifest as being really fucking annoying). That doesn't mean he wasn't psychologically damaged by what happened, just…
Sounds like he was raped to me. A lot of children explain their rape away by saying they wanted it. It's what they were told, and what they needed to believe to survive.
I am not sure I see the MRA comparison for the OP. Just for the record, I am a woman who has been criticized for being too thin often, and I also really am bothered by thin women who feel the need to chime in on articles about fat shaming because I think the two aren't really comparable. They both can hurt, but being…
I don't really know. The whole wedding thing passed me by. I got married, but had no wedding and I've never been one of those women that planned her wedding from the time she was 5.
Hey, listen, that's not 'technically' rape. It's *actual* rape. An unconscious person can't consent ever, even if you're in a relationship with them. Seriously, that's not ok. Don't do that.
Guys, listen to me very carefully. If I where in front of you, I would gently cradle that delecate head of yours and hold you close so that you can never loose eye contact with me and could read my lips in case any of these sounds I'm making go in one ear and out the other. Are you ready? Paying attention? okay,…
Goddammit, white women. STOP DRESSING UP LIKE NATIVE AMERICANS.
Oh, your wife is a racist?
Well, since I was into falconry and had a hawk at the time we studied it in high school, I found Taming of the Shrew to be hysterically funny.