Honest answer, when advice is gendered, it falls more heavily on the side of victim blaming. Saying "be street smart" and then defining what that means no matter your gender or age is terrific advice! Telling women they shouldn't open their door in the middle of the day to someone who appears to be a fellow college…

Don't be a woman or do normal woman in life things like answer the door in the afternoon when you are expecting your boyfriend. Thanks for the astute tips, dud. They're very helpful.

The short version is that you should never respond to a story about rape with a deconstruction of the victim's choices. It erases the culpability of the actual rapist and, more importantly, doesn't actually work to prevent rape. Every piece of "advice" designed to "teach[ women] to take measures to protect…

Wow. You have utterly no idea what you are talking about. Here are the take-aways:

You must not know what words mean, if you need clarification. This is victim blaming on its face. A woman writes a story about how she was raped when a man forced his way into her house, and this person comments that you shouldn't answer the door if you can't identify the person at the door. His entire comment is…

As someone else replied, this is victim blaming 101. "Try harder not to get raped and be better at getting your rapist in trouble!1!!!"

Thank you for your helpful advice on how to avoid being raped by not being raped, on how to seek justice following your rape by hoping for justice, and on how to cope with being raped by not making other people feel bad that you've been raped. Every man should instruct his women thusly.

Takeaways from your comment: (1) You are repulsive.

For anyone who still doesn't understand the term, this comment is a perfect example of victim blaming.

Since when are endocrinologists experts on developmental toxicology? Or maternal fetal medicine?

You might not be TRYING to be rude, but you're accomplishing it rather well with such little supposed effort.

You inspire because you've been there, you know what it takes to make it through tough and sad times. This is the reality that people see when you speak.

I always say that yoga, meditation, and therapy gave me the tools to improve my life, but my medication gave me the ability to access and utilize those tools.

I appreciated this story very much - clinical depression / schizophrenia runs in my family as well and it kills me how poorly it is understood by the general public (it is not the general malaise we all feel at times) and that people are guilted for using medication when they have exhausted other options. These issues…

As someone who has been very open about my depression, suicide attempt and recovery, and someone who's recovery included mindfulness meditation and yoga, I have always been VERY vocal about the "weapons grade" pharmaceuticals and conventional therapy that were also so integral to my recovery. I always say that yoga,…

Interesting story. You've used the cognitive faculties you amassed to survive life in a depressed state to speak to others about perseverance.

Jezebel, I beg of you, please stop with the fear mongering around opioid use. There are chronic pain sufferers out there and there is already a terrible stigma. Where is all of the opioid hysteria coming from? Opioids are pain medication, and very legal. Please stop.

Aren't you special? Go eat your Paleo diet and pop your shark pills. The grown ups are talking now.

In Florida, anyway, physical therapy is nearly impossible to get covered by Medicaid, especially if it's being ordered by an obstetrician. It's fine and dandy to recommend it, but if your patient needs multiple sessions and cannot afford it, it may be easier to offer her a pain reliever that can help. Although…

Pardon me for being very Canadian and judgmental when I say this, but go educate yourself because you're talking out of your ass.