Whenever anybody asks me what rape culture is, well, here is yet another thing to add to the countless bag of examples. Time to start drinking more.

Those shoes.

Whoa, do no besmirch the Dough Boy's good name! That's going a bit to far.

This was brilliantly written. Bets on how long until Tracie is headhunted from Jezebel? This was probably one of the best researched and articulated stories I've read on here and that's being said by someone who has been reading Jez since its beginnings.

Would you be cool with men having to purchase a special rider if they want prostate cancer covered by their insurance? Not just cancer, but a condition that can only affect men? Now imagine if one of the ways that men got prostate cancer was by being raped. And the only way you could get your insurance to pay for…

SO MUCH FUCKED UP. SO MUCH FUCKED UP ALL IN ONE PLACE.

I can into the comment section and was greeted with an ARMY of "NOPE" octopi.

Thanks for the advice.

Signed,
A woman who could literally not stand up when cramps happened from age 13 to 19 when finally her military doctor prescribed BC pills in the ER when she arrived with such severe pain everyone thought she was suffering an ectopic; and whose daughters both inherited the same sort of cramps…

If it had been a funeral, it may have been inappropriate, but this was a memorial and a celebration of Mandela's life. It was a festive occasion.

Because you are spreading paranoia through misinformation. Sorrynotsorry if you feel attacked that people stand up to you.

The natural order of a woman's reproductive system is to be pregnant or nursing for virtually all of her fertile years and they have found that there are health consequences for not following that natural order. Hormonal birth control has been beneficial in minimizing some of those consequences, like ovarian cancer.…

Meh. "Furthering the conversation online" basically translates to "refusing to admit screwing up on air."

i know some women who are having trouble breast feeding and it's breaking their hearts. they seem themselves as bad mothers because they feel they can get this one natural function to work as they've been convinced it should. your comments come from the same school of bullshit. when you write in a public forum that…

Exactly why I don't trust alternative stuff. Pretty much no regulations or testing. I seriously wonder why this horse shit is legal.

Never said women with bad experiences should be dismissed. Just that the idea that birth control is dangerous across the board is just as bad.

Things that are part of the natural order:

Hell no. Modern contraceptives are the best thing that ever happened to me. I am on my second Mirena IUD, and for the
At six years I have had no babies, no periods, no pills, no problems. It's like a magical device that magically eliminates all the physical inconveniences of being female. It could only be better if it…