Decent progressive-minded people live in every single red state. I do! (Texas.) It is tough! But goddamn if it isn’t necessary, and sometimes rewarding, and you know what? I hope to turn this great and flawed state blue-ish before I die (hopefully not young, of an aneurysm.)

“It feels like the Republicans want to trim everything back to pre-New Deal times. People were dying because they didn’t have any kind of help at all. There was a reason all of those programs were created.”

This has nothing to do with abortion, this is just about hatred of PP and contempt for poor people

It’s disgusting that they would do anything to try and take coverage away from people on Medicaid. This has nothing to do with being “pro-life”. Medicaid is paying for basic healthcare. This has nothing to do with abortion, this is just about hatred of PP and contempt for poor people.

I live in Austin.....And yes, I spend a lot of time angry at the state legislature. Last time a Republican held the presidency, I lived in a progressive state. So, yeah. I am a bit worried about dropping dead from an anger heart attack at this point.

God, fuck Texas and all the others. Like, what, 12 states or something, run by Republicans, investigated the videos and found NO WRONGDOING. Sorry, dicks, you can’t use that as an excuse! I don’t know how decent progressive-minded people can live in places like this. I’d be angry every single day (well, angrier than…

Long time lurker but I just had to comment on this. I feel exactly the same as you. And it feels like a knife in the back is how mainstream feminism has accepted porn as “cool” and “expressive” and if you don’t like it you’re a “prude”. I think blow jobs are disgusting, I think anal sex is disgusting and I don’t care…

You’re wasting precious neurons on the rapist whisperer. He doesn’t deal in silly things like patterns of behavior, decades of research and psychoanalysis etc., only his feelings about his journey to understand obvious shit. Perhaps we’ll move on the mysticisms of drunk driving, or the “shades of grey” of pedophelia…

Yeah. I found out about this story because some people he went to college with are friends of mine. They all said how they wished that they’d trusted their guts, because he was a super creepy mofo then and they tolerated his behavior. Everything that they’ve said makes him sound super gross. Hearsay, I know, but I…

I have inadvertently created a tv-show-watching monster. I was/am a huge fan of “Downton Abbey” but my husband had no interest. Today PBS had a marathon and he happened to flip to it and got sucked in. It was something in Season 3. This is all to the good of course, but I am now the official court biographer to the…

Internet porn has ruined men, as far as I’m concerned. It’s so deeply normalized degrading, violent sex strictly for the male gaze. Of course it all existed before, but early and frequent exposure has deeply damaged mens’ psyches and lessened their ability to see women as consensual partners deserving of their own…

My sister got divorced at around 28 and it was the best thing that ever happened to her. It didn’t seem like it at the time. At the time, it feels like you’re being slowly crushed by the weight of it all. But there is another side. She’s happily remarried now, but she did take some time off from dating during/after…

Speaking as a male who used to be a teenager, porn DID create some confusion and unrealistic expectations in me. But the only reason those ideas were able to take root is because I had no real-life sources of good, accurate, healthy information about sex. High-school sex-ed was an awkward joke of an anatomy lesson,…

leading to healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

WHEREAS, pornography normalizes violence and abuse of women and children; and WHEREAS, pornography treats women and children as objects

I have very little doubt that widespread viewing of pornography by teenage males creates unrealistic sexual expectations, which can create many, many problems. That said, I don’t think that’s an appropriate problem for government to solve given that any physical harm resulting therefrom depends entirely on the agency…

I know it’s hard to accept, but some people’s motives are literally just “they’re really into rape.” End of story.

Except that what he wanted wasn’t just sex; it was hurting people and getting off by getting one over on them.

Because he doesn’t get off on consensual sex. He gets off on drugging women and raping them.

This guy has been in the local Seattle news for a while now. Predators like this are why statute of limitations should be lifted on sex crimes, because they sure don’t seem to really exist for other crimes. It’s almost like folks don’t want women having the ability to prosecute their attackers.