“Fight back” is not an actionable directive. How exactly do Democrats “fight back” in actionable ways when they are the minority party in both houses with no ability to bring bills to the floor?

On both the left and the right there is a maniacal insistence on talking about politics as though Democrats are in power, so every evil thing the party that controls all three branches of government does is somehow Democrats fault for the left (who have a problem, I assume, grasping the concept of one number being…

That’s nice for her, but is that experience worth the risk of hurting/offending/re-traumatizing even one victim or friend/family of a victim by their cavalier treatment of these cases? It’s nice she found the experience positive - what about all the people that don’t? Is their opinion worth less than the positive…

You realize that’s not how pop culture works, right? I don’t have to call up Kaley Cuoco every time I want to express my disdain for The Big Bang Theory. 

They didn’t start well. I once emailed the site editor about how appalling I thought an article Tracie had posted was (it was about how “annoying” she thinks men with eating disorders are) and the editor actually CC’d in Tracie so they could both yell at/talk down to me. I didn’t read the site for YEARS after that.

Traci is a fucking monster and hiring/promoting her is one of Gawker Media’s biggest shames.

It didn’t fall apart - there was an early 90s Handmaid’s Tale movie starring Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway.

Before scrolling I thought you were being a little judgmental. After...

Just remember this: Mueller had enough on Flynn to put him in jail for at least a decade and whatever Flynn offered in exchange for a deal was valuable enough to get that cut down to one year.

I’m just going to repost something I wrote elsewhere:

I’m just going to repost something I wrote elsewhere:

I’m so sorry that this happened to you. I don’t want to compound what you’re going through by describing similar things that have happened to me, but I have definitely been in similar situations as this woman (and one time worse) and it took me a long time to unpack my feelings about it. I know the men who’ve done…

“I said something like, ‘Whoa, let’s relax for a sec, let’s chill.’”

Everyone is also ignoring that he physically intimidated her - she talks about how he followed her around the apartment and crowded her, how she felt like she couldn’t get away from him. Sure, when she tried to leave he didn’t stop her, but based on his behavior she had no guarantee that he was going to. She knew when…

Aziz defenders are probably also Franken defenders. Everyone wants to be a champion for women until it means having to give up their faves.

I didn’t call this rape. The two options for a sexual encounter aren’t “violent rape” or “totally fine situation where everyone is happy and consenting.” As a culture we’re terrible at recognizing and condemning rape, but we’re also terrible at recognizing that things don’t have to rise to the level of violence or…

You need to read up more on recognizing enthusiastic consent. Pushing boundaries and encouragement can happen in an enthusiastically consenting relationship, but those things without clear, uncoerced consent are violations.

It’s really not that hard. If you have to persuade/cajole/“soften up” someone, don’t do it. If you’re not getting clear, enthusiastic consent, don’t do it. You might get laid less, but the alternative is much worse.

He stopped for literally a minute and then immediately tried to initiate again. Dude, if you clearly express your discomfort to someone and they repeatedly ignore your discomfort and clear signals to try and get their way, they have already violated you in a very profound way. They have shown you that to them, what…

Probably because she said “no,” “let’s chill,” “next time,” and “I don’t want to feel forced” along with probably dozens of non-verbal cues that she wasn’t into it. And he’s a grown ass adult with no cognitive or social impairments that we’re aware of, so I think he can be expected to know and adhere to the basics of…