Maybe I’m naive,

Well it rains water here and that’s a more valuable commodity than diamonds.

I love that you love yourself enough to be alone. I am working on that, I am with someone who does not love me and have been for a very long time because I am so afraid. I am not much younger than you, and today you gave me strength. Thank you.

Yep. Younger people tend to forget they were born into this world that was shaped by people of Cher’s generation. People who had to fight to get where we are today, people who held racist, sexist, homophobic views who have changed with exposure and education. Hell not even just Cher’s lifetime. In my lifetime. Just…

My other super religious friend who thought she’d have “dozens of orgasms” on her wedding night because she “earned” that by staying a virgin and marrying one.

...thought she’d have “dozens of orgasms” on her wedding night because she “earned” that by staying a virgin and marrying one.

I’ve long stopped being horrified at how many grown ass adults I’ve met and seen who are totally ignorant in these matters.

So like ... can I have maternity leave? Affordable prenatal care? Any treatment for my battered lady-bits after birth? Help with childcare? (My parents live very, very far away and I really like what I do for a living.) Will my daughters be able to get jobs where they won’t be harassed by their employers, or is their…

well sure, because cars come with instruction manuals, boyfriends do not.

Technically it’s a Woman Dollar, so it’s only worth $0.80 in man money.

You can’t posthumously out someone. They are dead. They do not care if they are in the closet anymore. Because they are dead.

Or, maybe, the way she gets through every day is by telling herself that those past assaults happened because she did X,Y,Z and as long as she never makes those mistakes again she’ll be OK.

Look, some women can be the most ardent supporters of an oppressive patriarchal system. Pam has survived in spite of/by virtue of her physical attributes all her life and can’t see the forest for the trees.

I met an Aussie couple in Cancun in September. I told the woman I didn’t want to go to Australia because everything wants to kill you. She laughed about the silly way Australia is portrayed in the U.S. but I see the truth.

No. There is no case that deserves the death penalty because actions don’t happen in a vacuum. Using the death penalty on that guy will inevitably result in using it on an innocent at some point, especially with how fucked up forensic science is.

He was trying to break Rand’s spine but couldn’t find one.

You’re saying the average 400 lbs couch cowboy who’s maybe shot a few beercans at best can’t flip a switch in a life-threatening chaotic situation in a crowded room full of panicking, frantic people and become the John Rambo they’d need him to be to make a difference?

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug. I’m in Australia, which is currently going through a fucking postal survey of whether or not LGBTQIA people should be able to marry (long story). I’ve had a lot of Socratic conversations, asking people to precisely articulate their opposition to SSM. It always - always - boils…

My mother went to American University in Beirut for medical school in the early 90s. There was one associate dean (who had been working there for nearly 20 years and was basically a legend in his field) who only invited female students to his house on weekends/holidays for dinner. Everyone just said it was his way of…

At this point, France should ask for that statue back.