One of my crazy girl friends can lie about the most outrageous things completely straight faced. Hilarious from the outside until I shared an apartment with her. After most of my sweaters got mysteriously stretched out(she was significantly larger than me) and random shit kept showing up on my computer I put a lock on…

My mother once claimed no memory of the previous SEVEN YEARS so she could deny all bad behavior exhibited in those years. She also claimed her geriatric barely able to walk "boyfriend" raped her. Oh, and she killed my dad causing him to have a fatal heart attack.

A student my s.o. is working with is dating someone who says he's a Navy Seal. Who's based in Boston and living in an apartment. (Y'know, like you do.) He blew her off for a date last week and was out of contact for four days, and when he finally called her he let her know he'd been flown overseas on A Mission He…

When I was high school, there was a guy three years older than me that I had a huge crush on. He liked me when I didn't like him, vice versa, it just never worked out. My junior year, he was going away to boot camp and spent his last evening home with my family and me. It was an emotional goodbye, and he was my first…

I never once "talked about her sexuality" in that performance. That never even occurred to me. It was just so God-awful STUPID. And frankly, she's not very sexy. She may be naked and gyrate and all of that, but none of it is alluring or seductive or anything close to it. As you said, it was just her trying to be…

This exactly. I'm not calling anybody a whore, and I'm not on board with anyone else doing so either. I just can't get on board with this conflation of "talking about the male gaze in pop culture" and slut-shaming.

A man who identifies as a woman. Are we going to argue about whether or not a transgender person is allowed to be identified as a woman, now? Because that's an entirely different conversation.

What you're saying about the "empowering" sexual expression is fair, I think. But, if it's only empowering for them individually, I think it's fair for us to be critical because of the amount of influence they have on perpetuating harmful stereotypes of women's sexuality (and in Rihanna's case, black women's…

Do you honestly think that being in a bathtub on all fours, wagging your tongue, and wearing a blonde wig is an empowering expression of black women's sexuality? I'm a multiracial POC, but I don't look at that image of Rihanna and see it as particularly empowering.

Is saying, "the only thing you brought to that performance was near-nudity and gyrations intended to simulate sex" really "holding them accountable for being *perceived* as a slut"? I mean, Miley does have agency here. It's not like a note got passed around high school that she gave head in the boys' bathroom and…

Bring on the hate, but I agree with Rashida. I admit I groan every.single.time a woman is used sexually to sell tickets to a film. There's always some gratuitous scene of a woman naked in a film, and then in the movie teasers there's almost always a scantily clothed woman so that people see that don't worry, the…

"This is showing what it looks like when women sellsex... so much of it feels staged for men, not for our own pleasure."

I do think slut-shaming is an overused term now.

Also, she doesn't even PubMed.

Example: No one is discussing the impending Hiddleston or Gosling backlash...

The world will always do its absolute best to knock down any independent woman a peg or two to keep her in her place. I don't see this article discussing 'has been' male actors getting the "backlash" treatment? I guess because that never happens.

Just because this child is the Illuminati Chosen One who shall rule the Earth, you think we are crazy for worshipping her? Joke is on you. She will not look kindly upon the heathens once her reign begins!

I completely agree. We can't pretend that all men will listen to "don't rape" because plenty of men won't. Why not protect ourselves too?

The problem is, "How about not raping people?" does not really work when most rapists know exactly what they are doing. The "Don't be that guy" ads work cause they are telling guys that having sex with a girl that is passed out is rape, and those guys might not know what they are doing.

May I ask why you prefer Gale? Not trying to start an argument btw!