Tom wanted the relationship to be more public than she was comfortable with.

You do get it-

Yes, my heart breaks for the PTSD suffered by the rapist who got caught, convicted, and was punished with a slap on the wrist.

I almost feel guilty about how little I disapprove of this. The curse of being a bleeding-heart liberal and not a college athlete rapist, I guess.

Feel free to dismiss the rape apologist if you’d like!

Not “had sex with an unconscious woman behind a dumpster”, he “RAPED an unconscious woman behind a dumpster”.

This is delicious. So long as everyone stays non violent or trespass-y I'm on board.

Well, I can’t approve of this sort of thing.

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

What did they expect would happen, though?

Well, if her male heir said it was important then by all means... Dude, this is part of the death by a thousand cuts women face every day. “It’s just a headline” It’s just a compliment” “It’s just a joke” “It’s just an ad” It’s just a music video” “It’s just the way they do things here” “well that’s what people think…

Commas are your friends.

My favorite part is how they frame lack of aesthetic appeal and a likeable personality as contradictory. Who woulda known that a woman who is “plain of feature and certainly overweight” could “NEVERTHELESS” be “a woman of wit and warmth”? Is it really so hard to see a woman’s personal characteristics as anything other…

I recently discovered a very satisfying method for dealing with the “It’s just a (feminist principle of your choice), it’s not important!” people. Ask them why, if it’s not important, people won’t stop doing it, and won’t change it if after the fact. Why don’t the content creators reply “Well sure, it’s just a word…

When Lauren gets better, I hope she makes them Jrue the day they printed this.

I would figure out a way to rise from the dead to kick some ass if that were me.

But sprots!

When Australian author and neuroscientist Colleen McCullough died last year, one of the premier national newspapers printed this as the opening of her obituary...

“But women’s sports are second-rate,” said way too many men and probably some women too.

“Coby Bryant”