“The majority of women in the workplace are not tender creatures and are largely adept at dealing with all varieties of uncomfortable or hostile situations,” Roiphe wrote in the New York Timesin 2011. “Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or…

The other day I heard a woman talking about how she’s having someone stay with her 17 year old son while they’re out of town. 17 and the kid needs a babysitter. I was babysitting other people’s kids when I was 9. Friggen insanity.

Glad to know you recovered quickly. My experience was about 33 years ago. Note to anyone reading this: if you are pregnant and craving oranges don’t eat the entire bag at once.

I was 16 when a visiting youth pastor began bringing his youth to our church for the summer. He was 24 at the time. He would put an arm around me, sigh, and say that he needed a girlfriend, or a wife. He was constantly finding ways to touch the girls in our group. He’d invite individual girls to help him decorate his…

The other thing that kills me is the inherent shame and guilt that, of course, must fall on the CHILD because of bullshit Christian teachings. Honestly, like whenever anyone wrings their hands and frets over why I am now an atheist, I really just wanna answer that it’s because I fucking went to bed every night as a…

When I was 7-8 years old, my dad was the pastor of a small little church in Wilmington NC. There was a man in his 20s who was very involved in the church. He had dark hair and dark eyes and he was tall and slender with olive skin and I remember thinking that he was very cute. It should all have been very innocent, but…

I was a chubster and constantly being told how fat I was actually made me a lot fatter. I looked in the mirror and saw a piece of shit fat person and I treated myself like one. It wasn’t until I was 18 that I managed to squash that and start treating my body right. I still have to work on it over a decade later. Not…

An overweight child is not necessarily one who is being fed garbage all the time, some kids are just porky, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Jasmine assumes sole rule of Agrabah, Aladdin and the white prince run away together and get gay married.

You know how John Oliver has a segment called “How is This Still a Thing?” Whenever I hear about a new hazing shitstorm, in my head I hear that deep, grave voice going “Hazing. How is this still a thing?”

Not just buy friends, buy friends who humiliate and abuse them.

A culture of male aggression and a sexist macho version of masculinity kills.

The Greek System will never make a lick of sense to those of us that didn’t need to buy friends in college.

Personally, I agree that no man should make it about himself, but it’s not hard to say they support their colleagues, that they support equal pay (which should include taking a pay cut themselves if institutions won’t raise women’s pay - and for them, that’s easy because they’d still be earning disgusting amounts),…

We want everyone to be treated equally...

Yes. I have noticed that white people tend to call their children monkeys.

Can you help me understand what allyship entails? As a Black woman, I’m really confused about what people believe goes into being an ally. I see so many people declaring themselves to be allies and then everyone acts as if that label exempts them from unpleasant inspection or correction. So Rose says some of the women…

They need to hire whoever is in charge of the Wendy’s twitter account. Or any number of fast food, Netflix, etc accounts that have been killing it the past year.

Yeah, I don’t know why abuse in the workplace is any less reprehensible than abuse elsewhere. Sometimes you can’t leave when it’s the one job of its type in the area and you have non-competes/bills to pay. Finding something else isn’t realistic. Asking the people doing the abuse to look within and seek help is.

maybe... asshole bosses should not be the norm... and holding them accountable is a step towards that....?!?!?