My 12 year old nerdy kid had a sleepover with three other 12 year old boys. I heard a lot of what they said (because god DAMN are they loud) and some of it was really problematic. Yeah, it was my kid and yeah, there were consequences.

Yeah.

Wait, I think I get it. Calling yourself trash is how men deal with the fact that they actually like patriarchy and misogyny because it benefits them. So they show shame and that covers up for the fact that they still want dominance. If you say “I’m trash” and do a little performative feminism, you can avoid changing…

Eh, I don’t think that everyone needs a dedicated “shame step,” particularly if you can address that situation internally. Hell, I’d imagine that a good portion of 7th grade nerds talked about girls in gamergate-esque terms, but most of us grew out of that. It’s the folks who are developmentally arrested that could…

“we should never have reached this point”? You say that almost as if this is something new ;)

My least favorite type of internet comment is, “why haven’t you covered this topic?? It must be a conspiracy of silence!” Thanks for having the receipts.

I think you need to read the full amendment, bud.

The depressing thing is that the gun nuts of America won’t even consider relieving a gun owner of his weapons once there has been a claim of domestic violence, because “women would just lie.” 

I just saw the Full Frontal episode where Sam features a whole segment on Closing the Boyfriend Loophole... savage. And depressing.

From my understanding, it is less about Fawkes himself, and more about the Alan Moore graphic novel, V for Vendetta, that showed activists using Fawkes masks to conceal their identities when staging protests and violence against an authoritarian government in a dystopian version of the UK.

Nah, they know. They don’t fucking care.

Men will see this and be all, “She should be happy someone was giving her attention! OMG, why didn’t she just turn around, smile nicely and give him her number? It wouldn’t have hurt anything. She could have even just offered to take his number! All she had to do was be niiiiiiiiice! That could have been the woman of…

1) Thank you, it means a lot to hear men acknowledge there is more to why so many women endure sexual harassment, assault and rape than the literal moment of the crime.