I would respect Franken if he would own that what he did in the picture was literally sexually objectify his peer and that he did it unthinkingly as a funny joke but didn’t examine that the reason jokes like that are funny is because they remove the agency and humanity from women and reinforce the only thing women are…

The part that I’m having a really hard time about is the boundaries in expecting a person to do their job vs bodily autonomy. I think in performance arts this is always going to be a hard area to work through.

This. We have to stop throwing the “bad act” equals bad person tantrum with everything. Most people have done things wrong in their lives. I think their reactions when confronted along with the sum of how they adjust their behavior should be the metric of how we measure people rather than on an isolated act. We have…

Obviously I was referring to a medical POA since you mentioned having someone to make your medical decisions. The point here is to examine the benefits and responsibilities of marriage conferred by the legal institution to determine if they even make sense.

If we made things like Power of Attorneys more standard and not soem weird thing that morbid people do this becomes moot.

Actually the research is more in the camp of a stable home is better regardless of the number of adults and also research suggests that a group of invested adults whether they live in or outside the home is better.

I would think that they would subdivide to whatever they can and then each parcel would be joint owned by CAH (or whatever entity they are using) and the purchasers assigned to that parcel. Each parcel would need to be fought so while it might not be each buyer has a separate legal fight it might me several separate…

Because the opening line with a co-worker (or anyone) should not be “wanna watch me jack-off?” Why is enthusiastic consent such a hard concept for you. I have started many intimate relationships in my life. None have started with “wanna watch me jack off?”

So that part about the nature of the subject. If you have to get close to someones face like that to discuss your romantic interests in said person then your methods are not workplace appropriate. Actually asking anyone to masturbate in fornt of them who you do not have an established enthusiastic mutual attraction…

But it isn’t really a coincidence that the data suggests that the bluer your state and congressional district the less pay discrimination there is. It isn’t rocket science. In places where people actually believe that the pay gap is a real thing there are both policies and actions that reduce the actual wage…

I mean it seems logical that regions with more adherence to “traditional” gender roles would have higher rates of wage discrimination. When you boss believes women should be in the kitchen popping out babies or believes that ‘men’ need better jobs to support their families those kinds of things result in wage…

Eeek, same. I let my daughter dress as DocMcStuffins... (no make up) was that wrong? Ugh. I just don’t know anymore.

Like... the whites? the heteros? the Christians?

I don’t get it. Why does anyone care if their officemate wears shoes? You don’t want to look at her feet, just assume you do something she doesn’t want to deal with as well and does because... it doesn’t matter.

“False claims” are an aberration. If the only time we could warn women against sexual assault is with “proof” we end up with bullshit like what has happened with Weinstien and Cosby and hundreds of others that are left to assault women over and over again because the women didn’t have “enough” to prove they had been…

I didn’t say that every ally has to take that kind of risk to be called an ally or to be considered an ally. Allies have always had varying degrees of involvement and varying degrees of risk they are willing to take. In the abolitionist movement there were people involved directly in the Railroad at great risk, others…

This is exactly how I’ve been feeling. Like welcome to the fucking sick, horrible club. Sorry that happened dude, no one deserves it but at least they didn’t say it was your own damn fault like every single female who has ever been alive *slight hyperbole

Until justice an be done through normal means it’s absolutely necessary to keep women safe. If Whisper Networks only relied on the first hand accounts only first hand acquaintences will be protected. Getting the message to those who need it is difficult and imperfect. But it is what we have right now.

I mean the answer is the same as it ever was. Organizing workers. There isn’t a lack of money in most of these industries, there is a lack of pressure to pass that money on to the workers since Unionizing became a four-letter-word.

I think this is an important lesson in allyship and how being an ally means taking on risks. Publicly outing a rapist based on anonymous claims can be the right thing to do. It can be justice in action. However, it is not without repercussions. The outer should be prepared to take on the burden of those consequences.…