I always struggle with the difference between coercion and being clear about what one needs/wants in a relationship. I’m fortunate enough to be in relationships with people who are on the same page as me about non-monogamy, and I dislike drama to the extent that I entirely avoid monogamous people who are ‘willing to…

I came across something recently, I can’t remember where, the quote was something like “every woman knows a woman who has been raped, but men don’t know any rapists.” I really think that is a great nutshell.Part of me is glad they are doing studies but honestly, I have never been in a group of more than three women…

It was 6.5% of the 13,310 whose initial sexual experience was “forced initiation” which is STAGGERING even if “only” 13,310 women were surveyed. It is quite possible (highly likely) that had the survey included their entire lives instead of their initial sexual experience, that percentage of sexual abuse experiences wo…

First of all, this is about how women are self-reporting their own first sexual encounters, so your statutory rape angle is irrelevant if they are saying those encounters were non-consensual. Second, since it says in the first paragraph that 6.5 percent correlates to an estimated 3.3 million women, that’s your context.

This sounds like the kind of book that can be revelatory but you’ve gotta be in the rifhyt mindset to start it. I’ll put it on my list to read, though!

Dumped a guy over his heavy Boston accent. I just couldn’t handle the way he would talk during sex, saying “Oh my gawd, ya tits are ahwsome!”. It was like banging Ted.

One of the many reasons my grandmother told me, over and over and over again that “a woman always needs to have her own money.” And the abusive assholes my mother and 2 aunts married certainly reinforced that idea. I thought getting married would mean I’d be trapped in a house with kids, with no money, slowly drinking…

Don’t confuse “kissing his ass” with “working a mark.” The former is what it looks like. The latter is what it is. They’re disrespecting him just as much as they ever did Obama; more, because they’re getting a lot more out of him while they do it. They’re just doing the bare minimum of jingling-the-keys distraction…

Note to the guards: Suicide watch does not mean, “watch someone commit suicide.”

That’s goddamn amazing. 

If it is someone one likes, they get room to grow.

There are three separate issues here.

Because for 98% or so of the population it provides a good way to help narrow down someone’s identity.

So if I am reading this right, the program looks at things like brow heaviness, cheekbones, jawline and so forth to decide if this face is the same person as that face and if the face is masculine or feminine. So what do people want? For the program to also look through the person's social media to see how they FEEL…

As someone who had a C section, this stigma does not just exist in Nigeria. My Dr told me there was about a 25% chance of cord prolapse due to how my daughter was positioned and my weird (she said this in a nice way) pelvis. I was fine with this. We scheduled my C section at 37 weeks for 39 weeks because they didn’t…

Until they’re old enough to walk down the street alone carrying skittles and soda...

Hopefully as more men wear dresses we can finally get some designers who know how to put some damn pockets in dresses. 

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So they always know where their towel is?

And if it’s done in a way that’s incredibly sensitive and about the story, what are they worried about? I don’t understand that.