I made this to send to everyone who uses this phrase because it just makes no sense to me at all. So here it is.

I drove a really shitty car all throughout high school, and constantly had to get things fixed. My father used to have fits whenever I would come home with an estimate, insisting that I had asked for the wrong thing or hadn’t pushed hard enough, and saying that it was my responsibility to learn as much as I could so I…

Right? Anyone who voluntarily puts something in their body called “Fruit Squirts” should pretty much expect something bad to happen.

Wait, seriously? You equate smoking with sex and human communication, two of our STRONGEST inborn biological imperatives? Like, yes, I suppose any given individual could survive without doing those things, but they’re 100% necessary for the perpetuation of civilization. Smoking? 100% unnecessary for anything except…

Yeah, that’s an idea that I keep coming back to. I don’t think it’s coincidental that so many famous men are abusers; I think it both has to do with the personality type that is egotistical & ruthless/manipulative enough to get famous in the first place, and then that is exacerbated by the nature of fame itself. We…

I do social media for a street style-focused website, and there are a lot of people who are sort of hugely obsessive about this. I don’t think it’s something they WOULD say in public, for obvious reasons, but women like Kate Hudson, Olivia Palermo, Kate Bosworth, Lauren Conrad, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Lily…

Preliminary injunction in t-minus 3 seconds, and totally justified.

Definitely the end of an era, but it makes perfect sense that a 75 year old woman wouldn’t want to continue dealing with the incredible hassle & expense of running a brick & mortar store in NYC. I’m sure she’ll continue to sell some stuff online, probably in partnerships/capsules with other established online outlets,…

Stylists definitely purchase and plan weekend/off-duty wardrobes too, right down to workout clothes. Celebrities are obviously aware that they are being photographed by paparazzi when they’re not on red carpets; of course they dress for that.

In case anyone doubted that media training is effective, this is basically what Justin Bieber sounded like in his first interview.

Nope.

That’s not what I’m saying at all, and if you think that’s what affirmative consent and anyone who advocates for it is about, YOU’RE fucking nuts. If you don’t understand what the standard is and what it does, maybe some basic Googling would clear it up for you.

The idea of affirmative consent is that if you are careful enough to get it and positive you have it, you won’t end up in court, and then you never have to prove anything to anyone. If there’s the slightest doubt in your mind whether a person wants you to do the thing that you want to do, then you don’t do it, plain…

The standard most people talk about is “enthusiastic consent,” not “informed consent,” which is something different and medical and not relevant here. And yes, I went to college, I’m aware of how it actually goes down IRL. But that’s actually why I think it works—because applying a standard of enthusiastic consent…

Actually, I don’t think it is. I can’t really think of any instances of the thousand that have been discussed over the last few years where a woman has actually verbalized “yes” and then later said that she meant “no.” Can you? If she did, I would have to say that that man would have some grounds for his claim that he…

Did I imply anywhere that I disagree with that? Or did I say something about the “pervasive issues with the judicial process” that might lead you to believe I ALSO think changes in how these cases are processed are needed. I believe it was the latter.

Exactly what I wanted to say. And along with the pervasive issues with the judicial process is the overarching need to change our standard of consent—to teach men and boys that no matter how sophisticated, drunk, and horny they might be, if they can’t muster a “yes” from an intoxicated, incapacitated, or sleeping…

“CNS NEWS = “The Right News” = not an unbiased source

I understand it. Although frankly, I’ve never seen a lake full of mountain lions, so I would imagine it’s a mostly theoretical concern when you’re actually fishing. But no, I actually don’t think your ability to feel marginally safer while traveling to and from your hobby a few times a year in the few instances that…

It’s really interesting listening to everyone projecting their own personal issues onto this. I am not a continual disappointment to my parents (we are on otherwise extremely good and loving terms) and I called prepared to pay several months of the bill because in addition to being the kind of privileged millenial…