Anyone else find it...interesting...that Republicans pulled a letter with 65 women vouching for Kavanaugh out of the ether, apropos of nothing.

This stupid narrative also feeds into the false assumptions that all rapists and pedophiles are strangers who lurk in dark alleys wearing nothing but trenchcoats. The person who commits sexual misconduct is almost always someone you know! They intentionally ingratiate themselves into a community or social network and…

He went to an all boys school which means the women who signed the letter wouldn’t have had close daily contact with him.

I’m so fucking sick of this “If he didn’t try to rape ALL women, he didn’t try to rape ANY women” argument. Or “If he didn’t try to rape ME he didn’t try to rape ANYONE.” Fuck this.

And we have to ask, is this going to be precedent? Can I rob a bank, and then point to 65 banks I didn’t rob?

I also feel like we’re in this odd place when it comes to female empowerment, because in north america it seems the dominant examples of “empowered” women are women who are themselves objectified, but they are okay with it/have leveraged financial gain from it.

I also wonder if the more empowered you are, the more aware you are of sexist bullshit.

most girls including one-third of boys say that

Could be denial? Unfavorable pre-nup terms?

It’s even more baffling when you remember Julie Chen Moonves criticized Camille Cosby for the same moves. Is it self-preservation? Blind loyalty? Internalized misogyny? In this climate, it makes more sense for her to ditch him for her career. I’d like to think she’s been manipulated in some way. But she’s a woman with…

She’s one of the most unfairly criticized, and mistreated athletes in her profession. What you call “worship” others call balancing the scale to the poor treatment she often receives

I hope someone puts together a highlight reel of all the coaching this guy’s ignored and all the obscenities he’s ignored from male players. The violation for coaching was chickenshit at best, and that game penalty was fucking absurd.

They don’t want to talk or visibly do anything about endemic sexual assault and harassment for the same reason they don’t want to do that about endemic racism, bullying on campus, drug and alcohol abuse on campus, student mental health crises, or why so few disadvantaged pupils are able to get a place on their rolls…

They don’t care if they’re making people’s lives worse by making it difficult or impossible to get an abortion. They think women who have sex deserve to be punished.

They think those millions of people are whores who should be punished like Eve was after she ate the apple. They also think that the majority of Americans who don’t believe as they do will go to hell. They don’t think it’s trampling on democracy because they think this country was founded on Christian principles and…

Even if you are anti-choice, you should at least be able to grasp that by banning abortion you are making the lives of millions of people worse in service to religious conviction that you [ostensibly] hold and a majority of Americans do not, and be able to acknowledge that you are trampling on the concept of democracy…

I have similar family stories. I imagine most families do, they’ve just been lost to history.

One of my great aunts died and one was rendered sterile from back alley abortions. But that’s only half of the story—to great aunts were tied to abusive husbands because they were not allowed access to birth control and my great grandmother died a fairly brutal and painful death from complications of having her 14th…

Thank you for this story.