Every time I think of wearing pantyhose, this song from Six Feet Under plays in my head.

‘Reasons why’ is one of those grammatical formulations that rip out my spleen. You don’t need the ‘why’, people! The why is already built into ‘reasons’! Argh! As in: ‘I have 13 reasons to hate this book, even before I knew the writer was a creep.’

It’s amazing how, when the conversation is about a progressive dude, suddenly “no means no” becomes

He stopped for literally a minute and then immediately tried to initiate again. Dude, if you clearly express your discomfort to someone and they repeatedly ignore your discomfort and clear signals to try and get their way, they have already violated you in a very profound way. They have shown you that to them, what…

I don’t want anyone to shove their fingers down my throat unless they’re trying to get me to vomit. It’s not sexy, it’s weird and porny and she indicated she wasn’t into it.

Probably because she said “no,” “let’s chill,” “next time,” and “I don’t want to feel forced” along with probably dozens of non-verbal cues that she wasn’t into it. And he’s a grown ass adult with no cognitive or social impairments that we’re aware of, so I think he can be expected to know and adhere to the basics of…

And boys need to learn early that they should be actively looking for the signs of a “no” just as much as they want to find signs of a “yes” if they care to avoid hurting people.

He could have taken a little bit of responsibility for how each of these things played out. He’s doing this “I’m part of the problem” thing, but not actually taking that to heart at all.

The retweets are shit but apart from that, show an understanding of what happened. He’s so caught up in his own defense that he’s missing the part where he admits he tried over and over again to have sex with her after she said no until she relented. This is common amongst guys and it needs to stop. If someone says no…

But women aren’t supposed to fuck, either, well, fuck anyone other than their lily white husbands. Or other people’s lily white husbands. Reducing access to health care eliminates both problems.

As someone who has now nursed 3 toddlers I can guarantee that subbing a sandwich or hell, even a cookie, for boob is not going to work. My current little over 2 year old has a conniption everytime we are done nursing (morning, when I get home from work, and before bed) unless it is his idea to be done. A tiny tantrum…

If you do your part and go fix the stuff the actual Democratic base cares about, then the Blue Lives Matter guy doesn’t have to win either.

This is my second kid and I was hoping my aversions to good and/or healthy food wouldn’t happen this time around but, alas. My favorite thing to eat is bowl after bowl of cereal, Cinnamon Chex particularly. It’s just so good! I feel you on the crazy feelings about food in the short time span. My pattern is: nauseous…

All the concern whether or not this company is qualified to carry out these repairs is totally unwarranted. Their employees have all been trained with the latest electric generating technology:

Also, as the article so clearly delineates, 99% of abortions happen in the first 21 weeks. What these fuckers are doing is criminalizing women and their doctors who want to help prevent the suffering of thousands of mothers and babies  who would be born with half a head, all of their organs outside their bodies, no…

They’re literally trying to put bodega’s out of business. They explicitly said that that’s the goal. They’re trying to take something accessible to everyone and make it only accessible to a few people.

UGH. As a city parent, I cannot overstate the importance of corner stores to healthy communities. Corner stores (we don’t really call them bodegas and the owners are usually Palestinian) serve as the grandmas for the neighborhood. The corner stores keep an eye out, and they sweep the sidewalk, and they lend you a…

I think the reason stupid white people recoil at the thought of white privilege is because they’ve squandered theirs. It’s easy to dismiss something that you never took advantage of as never existing, because then you don’t have to reflect upon yourself and your life choices.

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Right, the battle cry yesterday that child welfare only removes horribly off kids. It just is factually untrue. The same oppressive biases that exist in society plague child welfare as well. Kids from oppressed backgrounds (parents with disabilties, parents of color, parents in poverty, parents of minority religions)…