My junior year I got scabies. Which is common in most pieces of literature from the medieval and early modern periods, or in dogs in “underdeveloped” countries where the majority of the population live below the poverty line.

Actual question for adults with siblings of the gender that you are attracted to: are there any “normal” (non-incestual) circumstances under which two adults siblings (of orientations that make them attracted to other’s gender) could willingly share a bed on a regular or daily basis if there were other options…

But she doesn’t say “I think men and women are equal”. She says that she’s a feminst which goes so far beyond the tritely binarial, non-intersectional and frankly offensive dilution of what feminism has become. And when you willingly take on that title for yourself, it comes with (to a certain extent) needing to be…

Good thing they're an objectively and conventionally attractive couple. Can you imagine what the reaction would have been to the same captions, poses, and wardrobe choices if they had each been 50-75 pounds heavier?

Oh my god. I’m so sorry that you had to experience that, and horrifyingly unsurprised that it happened.

This though. I went to university in New York and inmediately learned that cops will catcall with even more disgusting phrases and threats than the average civilian. And they'll follow you home. Because who are you going to call when you feel threatened?

“Yes” in every known language to this article. I feel like pain surrounding female reproductive organs is either not taken seriously at all, or taken WAY too seriously. There was this hilarious photoset being tossed around the Internet a few months ago by a guy who’s girlfriend got her period and he rambled on and on…

Yaaaaas. But also this entire bill somehow seems to discount the fact that queer people exist, like lesbians have already penetrated the moats and fortresses of our public bathrooms and we've all survived. Everyone needs to fucking chill and let people piss in peace.

I’m a cis-gendered woman, so I don’t know why exactly you’re othering me here. All of those things are also done by people without penises, including men without penises. Are none of those things are done BECAUSE the aggressor has a penis. They’re done because centuries of patriarchal social norms have created a…

I grew up in Australia and can testify to this. My dad used to take me (a cis-gender lady) to our public pool when I was young and would just change me into my togs essentially out in the open. It's so goddamn hot in the summer that people are more worried about melanomas than potentially seeing gentalia. While we…

If you equate trans people having the basic right to use the public bathrooms that they feel comfortable in to the total breakdown of the last century of feminist advocacy and the eroding of women’s right to say no to men, you’re not even remotely educated or feminist enough to be having this conversation at all. I…

No one, of any gender or sexual orientation, should be taught to be “scared of a penis”. If you’re supporting the idea that someone should be afraid of a penis, or a vagina, or intersex genitalia, then you’re a shit person. Generally, women and non-binary people that are afraid of men (broadly speaking) are afraid of…

Interesting. I’ve shared bathrooms with many a trans woman and many a cis woman and have yet to experience anything “inappropriate”. Once my trans roommate even had to pick me up off the floor of our bathroom ass-naked after I passed out from a concussion. Crazy how she managed to contain her raging hormones and keep…

lol. If I ever get married, it will almost exclusively for the opportunity to throw a great party for friends and family, and considerably less about “till death do us blah blah blah”. As in, whatever money could theoretically be spent on a ridiculous ring that I would hate anyway will go to delicious food and a great…

This is, in my experience, so accurate. I think it’s absolutely pertinent to recognize that in this circumstance a teenanger being sexually involved with a older rockstar looks back on the situation 40 years later as a positive experience, while the exact same cultural circumstances and timelines could have occurred…

I absolutely agree with all of that, 100%. And the idea that pandering to feminists is financially worthwhile more so than morally or ethically worthwhile is absurd and a testament of how fucked the “position” of women is socially, at least in America/Western Europe.

But this is important for the same reason that it’s important for sex workers to have safe, supportive workplaces even though sex work is exploitative and objectifying. This type of media, just like sex work, isn’t going to vanish overnight. And women who consent to being represented in this manner, to being a part of…

Having very recent experience returning to an unfaithful partner, I think I’ve definitely learned something about myself. I’ve never been a person who placed much stock in sex or sexual acts as metric for intimacy or love (or whatever) in a relationship. The number of people I’ve slept with in my life is “high” and…

This is interesting because on my list of relationship-ending breeches of trust, there are at least 5 things ahead of infidelity. In part, I think, because sex/sexual acts aren’t the epitome of relationship intimacy for me. Like I could very easily (and have although not when I’m in a committed relationship) sleep…

Unnecessarily attractive Lifetime portrayal aside, because I’ve lost faith in most media to care more about content than perceived sex appeal, what’s the chance that this show is going to glamorize the fuck out of the entire period of history. The only way to do the Family’s social impact (or the social circumstances…