I can't load images for some reason. But my pick is Babylon 5. No one thought it would succeed and while the final season may have been inconsistent, i think it's fair to say JMS proved his critics wrong and showed you could do a arc heavy novel for television.

This is why I end up using Adblock even on sites that I would normally like to support.

Maybe this is just because I just finished moving and have been knee-deep in the stuff, but that skirt looks like it's made of bubble wrap.

Dude. Have you ever played a video game, watched an action movie, or read a fairytale? If you have, and haven't noticed what's wrong with most of them, try reversing the genders of every character and see if what happens seems strange to you. Imagine a racing game where the female driver who wins at the end is…

So, do you believe the Holocaust happened?
Because I'm assuming you aren't Hitler, or a high-ranking member of the Nazi party, or someone who liberated the death camps, or a survivor. But then HOW COULD YOU KNOW?!
And you know that there was a culture and a history that allowed it to happen, right? Both in Europe and…

Try to think about this in black and white terms. Literally.
Let's say a black man came up to you and told you that he was pulled over and beaten by police for some unknown reason. Would you believe in that case that it has something to do with culture or history? Because odds are it does.

I'm not a visible minority.…

Rape culture: CNN worrying that the rapists in the Stubenville case would suffer because they'll have criminal records.

When I tried to report my rape, I was confronted with police officers that wanted to know why I was hanging out with boys "dressed like that" (was wearing jeans and a tank top in early June). They asked if I was sure that it was nonconsensual. They asked if I was sure the blood on my clothes and my bruises were from…

But sometimes, when women speak about their harassment or rape experiences and make claims about the mindsets and motivations of the men involved or the attitudes of the people around them, I object. I give the benefit of the doubt or question the narrative as given, because it's my experience that things are…

This is what really stuck out to me:

Wow. Watching you rationalize what I've shown you is a real and present thing (art reflects our society) and what others have flat out told you has happened to them is stunning in its sadness. You won't see because it would mean accept that you are currently wrong and you refuse that outright. There's no way you…

You don't know none of your friends view women that way or that none of them would ever assault a woman. It's possible you're right, sure, but you can't really know. I was raped by someone I thought was a supportive friend. He was the only person who ever stood up to my abusive boyfriend-his own best friend-and told…

I don't see a lot of racism around me. That could have something to with the fact that I'm white. Just because I don't personally see racism in my day to day life doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It doesn't mean we don't have a racist culture. The statistics combined with what people of color share about their…

Yeah, it definitely sounds like you're failing at the empathy part of being an ally, which is really high on the list of things you need to not fail at to be an ally.

If voting in favor of equal pay, complete and unrestricted access to reproductive health care, and stronger punishment and longer statutes of limitations for crimes against women doesn't make me an ally, well then shit.

It's not my definition of ally that's narrow, it's how you view your duty as one that is, because you clearly think you can turn it on and off for the things you believe are real regardless of what the person you claim to be supporting is telling you. Can you see now why any woman who may have experienced this didn't…

This is terrifying. As a teenager I barely understood that you were allowed to decline a prom invite. It didn't help that at my school you weren't allowed to go to a formal dance without a partner. The date had to be opposite sex, because that really prevented any students from being gay right? By the way, this was…

While this won't solve all concerns, my friends who recently had a baby posted a notice on FB that everyone who wanted to visit and see the new baby HAD to be up-to-date on all vaccinations, including the flu shot. Here's what they said: