I think it’s obvious that men have been indoctrinated (more or less) into believing their behavior is acceptable, just as women have. Is this anyone’s fault? Nobody is born into a vacuum, and no child truly contributes to a culture. That’s why it’s frustrating to see men being constantly made into an enemy around…

Gosh! She didn’t feel “empowered to bail”? Gee, I wonder why?

that’s not what demonstrably said, and that’s not what aziz is, and you know it. was it rape? no. was it sexual assault? yeah. (some would argue no but they’re not the victim in this scenario.)

I agreed with all your sentiments until this passage:

As SNL pointed out, it’s complicated (see below), so I give Amy some room to not have spoken perfectly, but I do think regardless of the Ansari/Grace situation in particular, society needs to move beyond “no means no” to “yes means yes” (meaning getting enthusiastic consent from your partner, especially when with a…

Here’s a tip, fellas: If you are frustrated/scared/angry by what you perceive as a large “grey areas” between consensual sex and sexual assault, just err way on the side of consensual sex. When in doubt, step back or slow down. Wait until the morning. You can ask your partner. You can remove yourself from the…

I have adopted family members who came through the system. However, you think it is appropriate for random police officers to just seize children at their own whim? That is so incredibly easily abused. He is free to sign up to adopt with the state himself rather than threatening a random woman he found. He should…

I’m pregnant and ordered a lox and cream cheese bagel the other day. The woman working the counter said “you know you shouldn’t be eating raw fish, right?” I told her to give me my fucking sandwich. Little did she know it was the cream cheese trying to kill my fetus all along!

Prairie City has one pretty awesome diner. La Grande has a pretty good Tex-Mex place. Joseph caters to a lot of tourists so you have some really good restaurants (also, the whole town is pretty much a gallery for the Bronze Works. The most usual restaurant in a small PacNW town thought also has to go to Wildberry’s…

Yeah, I mentally omit Bend from Eastern Oregon. It’s an island of reasonableness and decent restaurants in an otherwise horrendous wasteland.

Yeah but there’s like 250 more miles of Oregon east of Bend.

I just like the names “Rufus” and “Dufur” for towns to be honest. I spent 10 years in Eastern Oregon. The whole fucking region is a shithole.

Elgin once had the highest per capita rate of teen pregnancy in the country, and four of them were by the same guy. Keep in mind that I knew them as the trashiest and I played ball against Mount Vernon and Prairie City. (Does anyone know if PC still has that diner with the best Chili Cheese Fries?)

Rufus and Dufur say hi!

Elgin is also the single white trashiest town in Oregon.

the issue in the US, some people are uncomfortable if the woman isn’t covered up. with women.

If Obama had behaved, even once, like the GOP did about him (and afterward), it would have been “angry black man” from here to eternity. Trump’s (or McConnell’s or Ryan’s etc.) appalling behavior, compared to Obama’s carefully neutral behavior, is just white privilege writ large in my opinion.

Of course he was feeling “serenity” - he just got free of the worst, most demanding job in the known universe.

I remember someone from Kentucky saying that we’ve tried this method on gun rights and it’s never worked. No matter how anti-gun control a democrat is, republicans will always vote republican. There’s no reason the abortion issue would be any different. When people get around on their own terms to recognizing that…

Honestly, if this country is going to be saved from itself, it is going to be largely due to people of color.