As a fat woman, I can honestly say that I only started becoming successful in my effort to get healthy and to lose weight once I actually started feeling good about myself. Accepting myself as I am first rather than hating myself made me want to exercise. It made me not care about my fat ass squeezed into leggings and…

It was misunderstood. I didn’t mean to give the impression that I was equating non-enthusiastic consent to rape. Non-enthusiastic consent is, just as you said, not necessarily being in the mood but consciously choosing to go along. It becomes an issue if you’re going along out of fear of repercussions or because you…

I think more so than defining rape is defining consent. Is consent a forever thing or situational? What about implied consent or non-enthusiastic consent? What about verbal vs non-verbal? A lot of times it boils down to did the person actually freely, clearly consent or not.

When I say the victim defines rape, I’m talking about situations that really are not as clear cut as some dude forcing a woman into an alley or someone purposely getting their date really drunk so that they’ll have sex. If, for instance, a wife refuses to have sex with her husband but he insists and she just lays…

Considering how much you seem to be searching for get out jail free cards, I’m inclined to think you have some personal stake in this. If you haven’t violated someone’s consent then you’re not an asshole or a dick- note that this is one of the qualifiers. If you have, then wear those titles proudly. Are you just…

Just paid my mortgage and will be treating myself to a cookie for making sure that I have a place to keep my stuff. And then a plankmas workout as a reward for the cookie.

You’re either severely dense or just disingenuous. If the partner goes along with it because they feel they have to in order to get their partner to leave them alone, it’s up to them how they feel about it. If they’re not thoroughly convinced but don’t care one way or the other, then they’re giving non-verbal but not…

Trying to get your partner in the mood =/= putting pressure on them. If it is, you’re doing it wrong. Getting your partner in the mood is called foreplay - touching, kissing, stroking, teasing or whatever and it can start before you’re even in bed. If they’re not responsive and you keep going anyway, then you’re 1)…

Especially since the police - who are trained professionals - usually don’t disarm a gunman by running at them. This is some action movie fantasy nonsense even more so than the good guy with a gun. In theory, good guy with a gun - provided he either has a clear shot or at least decent cover - might almost possibly…

If you have to exert pressure -including verbal pressure - then you’re basically convincing someone to have sex or engage in sexual behavior when they really don’t want to. Which means that consent isn’t freely given, it’s given to shut you up. Whether that counts as rape or not often depends on the person on the…

Except not every teenage boy has to pressure a girl into having sex. If you even remotely think that pressuring someone into having sex is normal or acceptable, maybe you need to take a step back and reconsider your life choices.

So can I put in an order? Seriously, I know no one that sews and I really want one. I like to support independent businesses.

That’s the reality of going to a private school. Public schools also have to trade in programs and make cuts to cover costs including additional security. If you choose to pay for a private school you have to accept the cost of doing so and not expect other tax payers to foot any of the bill.

I actually knew someone who freaked out that her 1st or 2nd grade daughter was reading Captain Underpants. She thought it was dirty. But she let her son, who was much younger, watch all manner of violent tv shows. My husband used to work in a comic store and said he once had a woman refuse to buy a comic book because…

It’s such a fucking cop out. Tell you kid the age appropriate truth. How hard is that. Trying to keep the world sanitized so that you won’t have to explain things to little Ryder or Khaleesi is lazy and, honestly, insulting to the kid’s intelligence.

I would argue that there’s a difference between legitimate sex positive porn and the ‘sex positive’ porn that’s on display here. This is basically mainstream porn with a sex-positive, feminist gloss on top and the same ugliness underneath. This is sex positive feminism as a commodity. The biggest problem, in my…

And such a variety of stink. Sewage treatment plants, sulphur, rotten fish, cat pre-scented plants, and a general sweaty smokiness. I love my hometown

And when I value your opinion I’ll let you know

You’ll just have to be peeved then. There’s are legitimate reasons why an event like this would be welcome and popular. Maybe one way to avoid the seeming necessity of a single gendered event is to actually listen to those reasons instead of being condescending to a poster that explained why she would prefer to…

Honestly, I still don’t think a lot of people in the industry care. They only care that it’s making them look bad which is why people are trying to distance themselves from Deen.