Absolutely. Somehow the women fucked me up less. I could understand and empathize with the internalized misogyny they were working with, even if I didn’t know that terminology at the time. The men were just so powerful, so unchecked, and it’s left me confused about sex (and bodies/bodily autonomy generally!) for a…

Oh my god, you guys. THERE IS NO WHITE KNIGHT. I do not need the ghost of Howard Zinn or FDR or Jesus himself to come and unseat McConnell. It’s politics, for fuck’s sake. There’s like, 4 decent humans and the rest are swine. But some of them are swine who will keep you from dying during an abortion or your kid from…

Or, if you come from a repressed, evangelical background (me!), they’re mad at you because of how you made them feel, for the adultery they committed in their hearts, and they’ll make damn sure to offload their bad feelings right onto you. I couldn’t figure out why some of my male teachers, the really god-fearing…

I see alleged victim all. the. time. I didn’t even know it was a no-no. I assumed that if the accused is assumed innocent until proven guilty then by the same rationale, the victim was only an alleged victim until it was proved otherwise. I didn’t like it, but I assumed it was just sort of that the notion cut both…

Do you know what turns my stomach about this comment? He knew exactly how young these children were and didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. On first reading I thought (and let me be clear that I detest the vile pig of a president), “Oh, man. What a new light that comment takes on now.” I was thinking about…

This isn’t what the article says and quite frankly, your response seems steeped in the bias that a lot of couples using ART face—we must be just picky or extra or something if our bodies are saying we can’t have babies and we’re trying to overrule mother nature. They had to give the babies back. It’s gross to have…

Not exactly. Fraternal twins are not genetically identical but do have the same parents. If a surrogate carries babies for two different couples on two different occasions, that doesn’t make them siblings, for instance (not genetically, anyway; you can create family ties through whatever means is meaningful to you). We…

Look, Beyonce is great. No tea, no shade, no pink lemonade. But Donald Glover fucking does something to me.  I maintain I got pregnant earlier this year because I spent a solid 6 months listening to too much Childish Gambino and getting freaky wishing Mr. Slowtrain was a certain curly chest-haired showrunner.

Where is Stefan when you need him? This story has everything.

I have always maintained that poor Michelle has quite a cross to bear: if she can’t be the most famous person in Destiny’s Child, she could at least be the most famous Michelle Williams.  Alas...

I imagine it’s cauliflower rice or similar. The joke, of course, is that rice is a plant, but I suspect it’s more a matter of (idiotic) terminology than that they’re just calling regular rice plant-based rice.

a ride on Pepsi’s float in this year’s New York City Pride Parade

That’s because Massachusetts is one of very few states where suicide isn’t illegal.  It’s discussed in the New York magazine piece referenced here.  It’s part of why I’m surprised they got this verdict, not because I don’t think she’s a monster, but because I don’t understand the legal basis.  I’m not a lawyer though.

So I went back through the coverage and she used to look a lot more doe-eyed teen than Cara-Delevingne-but-dead-inside. If you look at the progression over the years since she was first charged, it’s actually a kind of fascinating metamorphosis. I can only picture a young girl who was maybe 30% confused and 70% evil…

I’m really sorry to hear you were assaulted, and I’m sorry if the other commenter made you feel condescended to, especially given that history.

Wait, what?  Say it with me now: what you are wearing--whether it is for your job or because you love wearing pasties and fishwire underwear--does not affect the odds you will be assaulted.  You’re suggesting that women should limit the work they do in order not to be assaulted.  You understand preventing that is the…

Psychopathy actually isn’t in the DSM. It’s been added as a specifier for antisocial personality disorder as of the DSM-5.  It’s the equivalent of distinguishing between, say, major depressive disorder and major depressive disorder with post-partum onset; it isn’t its own clinical diagnosis.

In general, personality disorders are fairly intractable. Some methods with certain disorders (e.g. DBT for borderline personality disorder) have shown some positive results, but generally speaking, there’s not a lot of optimism for even minor recovery from personality disorders, both because they tend to be…

I can only hope you actually are the dog in your photo.  Being a literal canine is the only excuse for this kind of willful idiocy.

If that’s accurate (and it’s a big if because it only appears in the Us Weekly story, not in her quotes, and since they were sold, their reporting is worse than ever), here’s my new theory, and I think it has legs: there’s a moment in the Escape from LA episodes where Sarah Michelle Gellar tells Carrie that there’s a…