It doesn't matter what they might say after someone discloses their abuse. They've spent a whole lot more time telling them that sex is like chewing gum (gross after it's been in someone else's mouth) or a bandaid (gross after it's been ripped off someone else's skin). It's all about the act. If you think a girl…

d00d, that is not what she said. Reading Comprehension Fail!

The cookies are free, but you have to pay for the milk.

"Purity culture" is religious. "Rape culture" isn't. Those are two separate concepts.

Actual GSA Troop Leader here to weigh in. I've been a troop leader for 7 years and I work with mostly Daisies and Brownies. To establish my own history, not in the weird spirit of one upsmanship, I actually went through all the levels of scouting- I was an only kid and we moved so much that it was a cool way to…

A hyperbolic strawman. Imagine that.

I don't think you understand what rape culture is. Go research it and come back to us.

If you tell girls, as abstinence and "purity" educators do, that they are "used" and like a rose with no petals left or a dirty piece of chewing gum if they lose their virginity before marriage, you have already sent those girls the toxic message that they are damaged and it's a message that you don't get to take…

Nowhere in that comment was that even implied. Stow your persecution complex.

Definitely Not Samoas Because Other Cultures are Scary
Thinly Veiled Misogyny Mints
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When there is so much literal bullshit you can pin on conservative legislators, I find hypothetical* accusations to be rhetorically weak and ultimately harmful to your argument. You know all those folks are rocking massive indignation boners right now (one of a conservative legislators very favorite kinds of boners).

He's probably right. But I'd venture if any of their daughters got pregnant at a politically inopportune juncture, even by a white guy, they'd "strongly encourage" their daughters to see the exceptionalism of their particular case *ahem*

Bell and Shepard want a paradigm shift, and rightly so.

This is my new rescue wiener, Lucy. She's 5, and I've had her for 7 months today! This is a picture of her with her favorite stuffed uterus doll. Ironic, as she was a puppy mill mom.

The very last thing that I need right now is to look at my Swiffer and feel guilty for not doing MORE with it.

this post has a fantastic words-to-laughs ratio. kudos!

What the ever loving fuck? A man, with all that money, and access to the top tattoo artists in the world. And his collection of body art looks like he was letting Lil' Twist try out his new tattoo gun.

Some people think the angel tattoo is a crude rendering of Selena Gomez:

I can't come up with anything remotely clever to say because I am too horrified by how terrible these are.