I think a large part of it is that so many workplaces around the world face this same problem, and that a good bit of the rest of it is that it's easy for abusers to hide in strict hierarchies. I can't imagine that it helps that it's less and more recently gender-integrated.

Freedom of religion very explicitly means freedom from religion. Perry is a doofus.

I assume we are actively campaigning for him to transfer here after his work is done there? 'Cause that would be super.

what a badass.

Wyden, Merkley, DeFazio and Schrader are fantastic. Blumenauer is hit-or-miss (especially on business interests), Bonamici is still new, and even Walden is comparatively not-awful for a Republican. Oregon is doing pretty good.

I'm fine with it too, as long as it's acknowledged as snark and not an actual stance.

That being said, "Oppression Olympics" is my new favorite catchphrase. I can't wait for a chance to use it in conversation.

Are you shitting me? What is the point of this Oppression Olympics bullshit? You can't even have sympathy for men without reminding people that women have it worse? So the fuck what? No, really, by this logic, Jezebel is the whiniest damn thing in the world and anyone who isn't a trans woman of color who's been…

If you are a man who would not step up in the event of an unplanned pregnancy, then it is your responsibility to either not have sex in the first place or use adequate protection.

PC gaming has been seeing some interesting developments lately, especially on the indie front. Consoles are, unfortunately, lagging behind.

I've never felt the urge to cosplay until I met Fidget. "There, done! See how I captured every nuanced curve?"

And we need to destigmatize abortion post-haste. We need to reclaim the semantic debate so that we pro-choicers don't ever concede ground by calling the other side "pro-life" (because, hahahaha!). We need more women who had one without any sense of conflict (as I am doing here, now) standing up and saying, I had one,…

Yes, but there's an unfortunate tendency to over-correct, resulting in games that make me want to vomit. There's a tendency to think, "Women like The Sims, so any game we want women to buy must be like that." I prefer good story-telling (because isn't that what a game is supposed to do, tell a story?) that's…

People who regularly play video games in my family: Baby B-I-L (male, 12-24), Husband (male 25-44), Me (female, 25-44), My Mom (female, 45-64). My mom plays a TON of video games. We trade games back and forth all the time.

In Canada there are definitely benefits and incentives to pleading guilty if you "did it" - but anyone who is accused of a crime has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

That is the happiest I have EVER seen the Earl of Lemongrab. It's unnerving.

Maybe I shouldn't be so hostile.

Do you have the time to listen to me whine, about my religion and your uterus alllll aaaat once?

Regarding this statement: "Not every state has some weird “nighttime theft” law that gives you the right to use deadly force".

This is bug-nuts. I know I am in the minority on Jez regarding gun stuff. I am cool with that, that being said the defense doesn't even make sense. Ezekiel Gilbert thought that sex was included in the $150 price. It wasn't. This was not a nighttime theft it was a contract dispute. Even in Texas you don't solve a…

I'm sitting in my office in San Antonio as I read this. And - though I agree 100% with this author's comments - I would have no luck discussing this issue with a wide majority of people in this town. The argument here is that any victim of this type of shooting shouldn't have been…