Pumpkin spice latte is less basic than thinking your cool because you like the Melvins and Bladerunner.

Counterpoint: When times get bad, and times get rough, they should let him book some solo dates so he can do his stuff.

last year i was walking my dogs downtown and i was looking down and talking to the one for a second and i bumped into a dude and i looked up and said OMG you look just like riz ahmed! and he said ...cause i am? [both parties smile, end of interaction]

“She just wants attention” is a common refrain among misogynists - as if women are small children engaging in attention-seeking behaviour. Interestingly, they also seem to think that wanting attention is one of the worst things you can accuse a woman of.

Yeah, I bet she didn’t even want to live in her home anyway. This all turned out great for her.

Yeah she’s just rolling in the dough and clearly loving all this attention!

Renate Schroeder Dolphin, was named on his yearbook page, part of a group of football players’ “unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests,” the Times gently put it.

People just don’t appreciate common courtesy these days.

Over and over, my attention keeps going to the conservative women defending this piece of shit

YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE SHOWING, YOU IDIOT, NOT TELLING. THIS IS FREAKING SHOWTIME RIGHT FREAKING NOW. NEVER WAS THERE A MORE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO FREAKING SHOW HER YOUR APPRECIATION!

Then you should totally fuck me because sex with me has been described as “thankless”.

I’m trying to imagine a scenario in which, when reaching for eloquence through the post-coital glow, all I can summon is a phrase which might better serve as the response to having my rental car upgraded for free. Coming up empty.

I work with a young, 24-year old married conservative woman. There was one guy at our company who was clearly making a move on her... they’d take lunch breaks together and he’d sit very closely to her (like on the same side of one of those little tables at Starbucks). She looked uncomfortable but it continued to…

I love this too! I live nearby - that’s Somerville High School (MA) in the background.

Denial is a powerful thing. Maybe you would have to scratch and crawl your way out from under that boulder to even acknowledge that it’s a thing?

conservative women defending this piece of shit and casting doubt on the accusations

Without these women, these men would fall apart. They would not get away with this shit without their enabling wives and mothers.

One of SVU’s better episodes was about, of course, a young woman being assaulted at a party, in almost the exact circumstances described by Dr. Ford. One of her would-be sorority sisters (she’s been rushing one) was really brutal to her, basically trying to prove she had deserved it through sheer vocal battering.

Just like any person who covers up their pain with a world-given narrative that converts it into “romance” or “silent heroicism” or whatever, it’s really hard to come out of that and allow yourself to accept that you feeling better and being yourself is worth not “looking” better and being something to fulfill a…