Why is this so hard for people to grasp? Let’s break it into baby steps:

No, that GIF’s Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse. Front row seats, baby!

It’s a couple of decades since my termination, but I had it under general anaesthetic, and at the age of 18, kind of assumed this was normal. Perhaps procedure has changed since then, and perhaps it is different in the UK/on the NHS. I certainly think legislating to make anaesthetic necessary is stupid/dangerous/more…

And I have problems with what happens in the books, too. Martin has very specific (and male) ideas about, among other things, the behaviour of rape survivors, and also lesbianism (the lesbian sex is maybe the most cringeworthy passage I have ever read).

I don’t think GoT is *inherently* sexist - it was the complex female power struggles that got me watching in season 1, while the men were mostly just hacking at each other with lumps of metal. But somewhere along the way, the rape scenes (multiple) stopped being about a world where women were not adequately valued,…

Yes, but early reports linked these men to known and organised groups, mostly with roots in Morocco and Algeria. These are not refugees. They are not recent immigrants. They are criminals. To conflate their actions with those of people fleeing for their lives, is deeply troubling.

Wow, Germany, you’re really fucking up having done something beautiful, in accepting refugees. It’s bad enough that right-wing bigots were using the attacks as justification for their abhorrent racism, without you *helping* them, by treating these women’s experiences as unimportant.

One day, I will go online, and there WON’T be a story about a woman being killed by some pathetic fucking manchild, who can’t deal with not being the centre of her universe.

Dear God, Jeremy, shut up, shut up, shut up! if we’re talking about things being mentally harmful, your views kill a few braincells, every time they make me hit my head against the desk!

Does this surprise anyone? It’s a problem in any area with a wealth divide, which is - most of them. I know a qualified clinical psychologist, employed by the NHS, who can’t afford to rent more than a room in a shared house, in London. She got a doctorate for this!

How odd. Don’t get me wrong, this is definitely a punishable offence, and suspension seems appropriate, but arrest? It doesn’t strike me as over-reaction, so much as naïveté - I absolutely promise you could take ANY school at random, and something much more disturbing than this will be happening, where no one sees it.

Thank you for this reply, your thoughts as a Domme are really interesting to me. I also found this troubling, for very personal reasons.

I agree about the book, in the context of a library, assuming that said library carries non-chauvinist options. The problem is when kids are not presented with a choice. A couple of years ago, as part of some reading scheme or other, my neice’s school gave each of the kids a book. The boys got books about dinosaurs.…

Every time I feel despair over the fascist shit that politicians are visiting on Britain, I can come to Jezebel and see the U.S. having it SO much worse...

See, I know I should hate Uber, they are unscrupulous and terrible employers - but I can’t get behind boycotting them. When you’re a disabled person, trying to navigate an unfamiliar city, they are a godsend, and the one thing that stops me hyperventilating in the gutter when I get lost or stranded.

Well - no. I have a close friend who fits that description at 37. I may think her religion is a bit deranged, but it’s important to her.

Am I the only one finding the jokey tone of this headline, about *a woman meeting a violent death* a bit offensive? Yes, I’m sure it was a shock for the holidaymakers, but I don’t usually see Jezebel as a site which finds the murder of women funny.

As a fan of the Gaiman version of Lucifer, I was happy to give this apparent watered down procedural a miss. Now I know how evil it is, I can’t wait!

I’m crying, reading this. I count myself fortunate that my cat of 21 years died on the sofa beside me, but another of my cats went missing at the age of two, and hasn’t been found. I always feel like I failed her, and have horrible thoughts that maybe she was trapped somewhere, wondering why I didn’t come and find…

Anecdote is not evidence. All eight of my rapists were white British males. What should we do about ALL white males, on the basis of that? Or does it become inappropriate to generalise, once you aren’t talking about a race you clearly despise?