I guess it’s easier to believe that a political operative is running a child slavery sex ring in a pizza parlor if a lot of the political operatives you know are running child slavery sex rings

I can’t help but feel like our society’s thinking on this has become too reductionist though.

I am a male high school teacher. I have been falsely accused of sexual harassment by female students both years I have been teaching. Once I was accused of wanting a female student (Who I didn’t even know) to stay after school and “make a video with me.” Completely false. I was also accused of sexually looking at a…

We do have a concept called “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” Considering most of these issues take place between two people with typically few witnesses, it’s hard to get a conviction.

I have tried a couple of times to watch it because so many people find it entertaining and even funny, apparently, but all I see is an almost unbearable tragedy presented in uncomfortably exploitative ways. I feel like the people who love this documentary are basically just laughing at these two poor women and their…

I know this is the second time I’ve replied to you, but- WE WISH WE COULD FORGET OUR HOARDER RELATIVES SOMETIMES. :(

In any environment where people (pretty much exclusively men) have authority and power over others (often woman), with little real oversight, I’m sure shit like this goes on. Movies, music, sports, business, politics, religion.

Do Chinese officials scour celebrities social media feeds for incriminating stuff? If so, they should outsource that job to the average American office worker who does it for free.

I’m in a the so-called “nice section” of a a lower income city. I live down the road from a daycare and a middle school. Our streets are ultra-walkable and there are loads of little children as well as older kids strolling in the road after school. And there are speeders. People blasting through stop signs. Criminals…

Harvey Milk used to say that anyone who managed to solve the dogshit problem could become Mayor of San Francisco. I do not doubt it.

Kristmas In Hell.

Tired of the public shaming that finds it way to internet websites. Bullying styled as “good parenting.”

The running thread in these myths is the car. We (or perhaps more accurately, our parent’s generation) sprawled out from urban cores and built a civilization dependent on cars and private transportation. It’s pretty messed up that we’re paying for that societal shift now, not just in terms of paying for the…

Who gets banned from a mall in Alabama in the 80's? It’s not like today where people are a little more paranoid and reactive. People were actually a bit more trusting. You’d have to go above and beyond if it had nothing to do with vandalism or shoplifting.

Am I alone in kind of hating these lists of new talented people under a certain age? I think it foists an expectation upon people as unreasonable as that of a model’s ultra slim body. I’m 33, and for a long time, and still to a degree I still do feel at times like a failure because I’ve not yet had a breakout film or…

Churches with pastors that endorse political candidates should lose their tax exempt status, period.

I can’t put my finger on it. But it feels weird that Jon is being held to this standard. It kinda reminds me of those interviews with people who know or were close to like, famous serial killers, “He seemed like such a nice guy I’d never have known.” Hollywood is so small, and yet, how close are these people’s…

King Becky

Women are people. They are more than half of the people. Failure to recognize women as people means that more than half of humanity is hobbled, just off the bat. We as a species spend enormous amounts of energy to literally hold ourselves back.

This article was everything I was going through when the #YesAllWomen thing happened a little while back. I was going through everything I did, and even then, it wasn’t out of any sense of introspection. I was horrified after reading their accounts of abuse and wanted something, anything to use to try and separate…