Can people who are normally progressive please stop excusing the Duggars for their reprehensible views just because they seem nice and the show is a fun train wreck?

LittleSparrow lost it on a catcaller for the first time at 12. She and her girlfriends had run to the coffee shop around the corner between class and play rehearsals when on the way back two college-age guys started shouting lewd things at them. Feeling safe with a teacher within sight, she turned and started berating…

This. I remember the first time I was cat-called. I was out with friends. We were 12. I was terrified. I was even more terrified when one of my girlfriends decided to throw a handful of small stones at them while yelling "We are children! We just paid $5 each to see a G rated movie because we are god damn children!"
Yea…

And to anybody needing to get anywhere in the city! Fuck those people! I hope they missed their flights, or they got fired for being late to work, or their dates went horribly, or their kids where scared when nobody picked them up from school! I mean, why shouldn't thousands of people be severely inconvenienced so we…

You know, this is why it enraged me so much when that woman was arrested for leaving her child in the park while she went to work at McDonald's. In China, completely random strangers pick up children on the train/bus/sidewalk, play with them, show them things in their bags or coats, then put them back with their…

It's almost as if children are people who can observe and adapt to their surroundings or something.

Well, that's just plain awful. As someone who was in the military, I can speak to the amount of damage all of this infidelity and drama do, and how much more prolific it is in the military compared to the civilian world.

Ooops! There's water allll oooover Chris Pratt. I see it's making his t shirt very, um...that's a real shame.

In answer to your question: Black people knew.

I said this in another thread, but I use a burner account not because I am trolling but because I am AFRAID of those kinds of people being able to hack into the Gawker (or other blog) system and retrieve my personal information if I happen to say something that pisses them off one day. (I've said stuff on here I…

I wish I could insert the screenshot I just took of the one five-star review these sticks have. It reads (I'm paraphrasing): "My daughter Willow loves these! She's already put them on her Christmas wish list!"

I just keep imagining the person sitting at his desk, Googling and copy-pasting "rape gifs" to a comments section...

Mark,

is anyone else disturbed by the homoerotic sado-masochism in these books? Clearly, Diana G. is into spanking and that is fine, but why is there this obsessive interest in men beating and raping Jamie? Once...okay... But over and over again?? I quit after book 3 because I couldn't take the sexual violence anymore.

I am baffled as to why Outlander is popular. I don't see it as romantic at all. Much too rapey. It seemed every few pages somebody was threatening to rape her. And then, well I don't want to spoil the end but the sexual violence really ruined the book for me.

But see, that's the lie. Women weren't given anything. The erosion of the power of the unions and increased global competition made paying men wages with which they could support entire families less and less common. For the most part, women weren't "invited" into the labor market. We were shoved. First into the…

We're not going to get anywhere until there is funded maternity AND paternity leave that everyone takes. If it's accepted that both genders will take it, it becomes less of stigma. And that's not even coming just from a stance of job equality - most women could desperately use the help of their partner at home after…

I don't know about other Countries, but in Canada maternity leave comes out of the Employment Insurance Fund (Federal government) so the employer is not paying women on maternity leave.

The fairest thing would be paternity leave for fathers as well. Neutralize it! Also, some women are more career-focused then their partners so it doesn't always make sense for the mother to take the maximum amount of time.

Oh, fuck off with this. If I were getting repeatedly harassed at my workplace, my employer would take measures to ensure the harassers were removed and prevented from returning. I'm not a delicate, wilting flower that needs to be protected, but I'm also not some ragdoll that you get to toss around whenever you feel…