Question from a plebe who has yet to finish state school (but got super close!): Is Stanford known for marketing itself as a “party school?” I’ve only ever seen it as a marketplace for academic elitism, and respected as such. Isn’t is considered a West Coast Ivy? Again, plebe from a state school here; I fully admit…

I wish lactose would just let me be free to be me! And not the oozing-from-all-the-orifices-while-writhing-in-agony me.

I doubt it because she’s reframed his criminal actions as an indictment against her sexual value. You hit the nail on the head with your line about him being a rapist, not a cad; unfortunately, she’s rewriting the narrative to save her own ego. If his victims had been more “socially acceptable” (my skin crawls typing…

Thank you! I think most people don’t realize that the desire to rape and the desire to have sex are two different things — the desire to overpower and consume vs. the desire to share intimacy/orgasm. So, yeah, if he wasn’t a rapist (criminal), and was just an adulterer (not nice, but not criminal), he wouldn’t have…

I, too, found the individual moments hilarious, and I wondered the same thing. I wonder if the Cruzs have entertained the possibility or if this whole debacle of delusion is proof that they either: a) don’t care about things that are not in-line with professional ambitions and/or b) don’t ‘believe in’ physiological…

Straight WOC here, and in my experience, I’ve been able to forget for far longer and much more thoroughly in past relationships with white dudes than I can in my marriage to my Latino-yet-phenotypically-ambiguous husband. We get stares/double-takes from all the people who identify him as part of their in-group. In my…