I pointed out the articles relating to this have been unabashadedly defending her, and that not liking something someone does in some cases doesn’t mean they are for pillorying someone. I think that some people equate criticism, even when balanced by support in some cases, to calling for people to be burned at the…

What?! The story that first broke this whole thing on here made clear that guy was completely in the wrong and that his word choice, entitlement, and smugness were disgusting products of, and contributors to, a culture of ownership over women’s bodies and erasure of women’s autonomy. This write-up compares the people…

They like to flip the script and change the wall hangings on the socially-enforced gender performance boxes every few years just to keep people on their toes. Just when middle/upper-class white women learn to not smile in public, wear blue, and leave the poetry writing to the men.... BOOM! Time to switch it up. Last…

It began a while ago, this is from 2015: http://www.snopes.com/lesbian-ejecte…

How was she crass?

That’s why I’m so glad that criticizing something or thinking it isn’t funny isn’t the equivalent of being outraged or demanding perfection.

Don’t blame you, and feel like them making rude comments just justifies your actions.

This is so bizarre! I mean, I thought they got why people tuned in. So many of the fans, myself included, rave about how diverse the show was and so many people complained and joked about the addition of that relic hunter white guy and bumping Ichabod’s wife up to lead. Fans made it explicit the shoehorning in of…

I mentioned elsewhere, but will say again that not all humanism is secular humanism. There is also a history of humanism within religious groups and movements (same thing applies to being a freethinker, there have been theists who would be considered, or considered themselves to be, freethinkers). Conflating secular…

Not all humanism is secular humanism. Religious groups, including Christianity, also have histories of humanism within them.

On that I agree (though think “apply to potential relationships the assumptions from years of dating nonreciprocating jerks” is better than “subject” because they still have a choice not to date and/or sleep with her. I see the no blow-jobs thing as something coming up at or before the initiation of a sexual…

“she wouldn’t have reached the point where she was so frustrated she decided to become a selfish lover and punish the new guys in her life for the actions of the guys from her past?

They somewhat address it by making it so that there is only person the narrator can think of to get a cassette player from, so they aren’t ubiquitous.

Absolutely. I think part of the execution fail is that when Hannah recounts the rape scene, and there is no discussion of how it was not okay for her to reveal that without her friend’s consent especially when she lists this friend’s behavior in another case as one of the reasons. I don’t really remember there being…

People with brain disorders or injuries or intellectual disabilities can know what they are doing is wrong, and have impulse control issues, and be very manipulative with people they see as future victims. Someone could have an intellectual disability, but still be able to function at a comparatively high level to…

Perhaps the idea of one restaurant, covered here as well, might address some of the concerns you raise: they offered employees either $10/hr (at or above minimum wage, or 20% of the bill, whichever was higher. Some servers might still make less if they would have gotten big tippers, but it at least sets a more solid…

I can see the need for mainstream Christians to feel the need to be as vocal about the actions their faith motivates as the right-wing/fundamentalists are. My post may not have gotten that across and for that I apologize. However, my problem arises when Christians, approximately 70% of the nation’s population and the…

Yes, yes, of course not all Christians are falling off the earth far-right. They are the majority of the world and the vast majority (over 70%) of the country this takes place in. I get the impetus to come in and say that not all Christians are a certain way though, and I used to feel the need to apologize for certain…

And you seem to be saying what it looks you wanted to from the moment you came in with the “millions” number from a study whose methodology has received criticism and countering: more guns and encouraging more guns. Something we aren’t going to agree on.

Where are you even pulling that from? It isn’t from the intro of the study I linked to, or the article you did. Even the supposed rebuttal you linked to (which wasn’t actually a rebuttal so much as backtracking and trying to excuse the methodology and false positive problems while not even actually addressing that…