I think they're crazy. Really. And what they did was awful. But I have a hard time wanting 12 year old little nut jobs (or drugged up little nutjobs) declared sane and facing time as adults.

"Real rape" is bad. All that other kind of rape is FAKE and women are LIARS.

I think this has a lot to do with identity. "Real rape" is the kind of crime these men could never commit because they love women and are good guys and stuff. But, the kind of rape that actually happens the most, well that's the kind they…

I really do think that a huge culture change in the Greek system if it is to stay alive would be to allow women to have parties at their houses and allow them to have dudes sleep at the house. I talked about this with that UVA woman I interviewed — it's just ridiculous to have girls pretend to this "morality" within a…

Some POC will tell you that white allyship is not needed, but it is. If we want society to progress, members of the majority and minority have to work together to get towards that point. The first and most important rule to being a good ally is to listen. Listen and pay attention to what POC are saying and understand…

I guess there wasn't enough room to write, "Breathe Easy- Don't Break the Law, Or Walk Down The Street, Or Drive a Car, Or Ask Questions, or Mind Your Own Business, or Be Black."

Yeah, I think that we, as white people, HAVE to step away from the idea that racism is something intentional and conscious and deliberately cruel/prejudicial/harmful. It's so much more than that narrow set of racist actions, and it's absolutely true that we are ALL racist in that we have all internalized these ideas…

I am a good white person. ... And do you know what? I don't see a need to apologize for it.

Didn't someone once say that he who is wisest is him who admits he knows nothing? I've found, equally paradoxically, that, as a white person, I may contribute less to the system of racism the more I recognize just how racist I truly am.

I used to get loose change and MAYBE a dollar if I was real lucky. But to speak to how awesome my poor, single mom was... one day I lost a tooth and found a bag of glitter under my pillow the next morning. I showed the bag to my mom and she said, "the tooth fairy left you something very special: fairy dust!" I was…

These women have earned and benefited from an exceptional education, despite Columbia's best efforts.

i like the people on this post who have the FUCKING audacity to say something like 'hurr hurr well idk maybe don't put mattresses there hurr durr well if someone put mattresses on my property i would make them pay hurr hurr'. like shut the FUCK up.

Wow. Someone needs to go on the view and specifically go over Whoopi's rape apology list and take her to task on each one.

Get *on* my lawn, kids!

That's a beautiful and imaginative 'fuck you'! Way to go, Columbia activists!

Gotta say, some of these Columbia folks are steadily chipping away at my bad opinion of Ivy Leaguers.

THIS to all those people out there who claim that 'boys will be boys' and that 'normal guys' don't have a 'rapey' bone in their bodies. Face it, people. This girl was sexually harassed and assaulted by a bunch of pre-pubescent boys and the 'adults' in charge did NOTHING to stop them. Not only that, the person who…

"We are not racist at all and serve anyone."

The best part was that when my mom came to get me after I got fired (I was 16 — I couldn't drive myself yet!) she wanted to stop by the mall on the way home. There was a fancy new store that sold tapes and CDs (! — hey, this was 1986!) opening up, and they were setting up the store. In a fit of bravado I asked if they…

As an aside, I saw Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" first linked from the Bloggess as a song that made her smile, along with this one :

THANK YOU for posting that India.Arie song! I hadn't thought about it in ages and it's just the pick me up I needed today. That song just lifted my spirits!