I remember when she went to jail, and she completely shut down emotionally. She said she was afraid to use the bathroom because she was afraid the guards would film her. Now I wonder if she was having PTSD and did not have the bandwidth to process her memories at that time. 

I don’t know how true that is about the schools’ religious affiliations. The one Hilton went to was run by CEDU, who operated a ton of these schools in the Western part of the country. They were based on the ideas from Synanon, which is a cult that spun off of Alcoholics Anonymous that utilized all manner of emotional…

The only unwritten rule is I am always right, you are always “look at this guy!”

I know what sex is, but you could please explain to me what gender is? The only definitions I’ve heard either involved 1950s stereotypes (“if you like wearing dresses, you’re a girl”) or are circular and thus meaningless (“gender is the gender you identify as”).

You’re right - I don’t get to decide who is a woman. Biology does.

Society has always hated women who stand up for themselves, especially if they want to do something as unladylike as - gasp! - play sport professionally. This is just the usual garden-variety misogyny.

There is a reason that men and women have separate facilities, sports, safe spaces, etc. It is because women and men are biologically different and women are at a very real physical disadvantage when it comes to pretty much all aspects of living on earth with men.

I’m disappointed that a feminist website won’t even consider a discussion about why many feminist have legitimate concerns about this.

As a former track athlete, I feel like at some point it will be pretty important to be able to discuss the difficulty that cisgender women will have competing against trans women who opt to not undergo hormones. I’m absolutely against the policing of trans and intersex bodies; at the same time, I recognize that a…

Why should women stop caring about sport? (It’s only women this is being aimed at - no one tells men to stop caring about sport. Trans men aren’t dominating men’s leagues.) Professional sport is a path out of poverty for many people, particularly PoC. But yeah, who cares? Female athletes should just “get a life” and…

I read about half the article but my eyes started to glaze over and unfocus, but the gist I got was TERFs bad, TERFs mad, so yay. Maybe it would help if the article said what TERF actually stood for, but I dunno.

These are serious questions, no sarcasm - is no one here at least slightly concerned by the fact that there are so many transgender athletes succeeding in female sports, yet we aren’t seeing the same happen in men’s sports?

This is just one of the reasons I decided not to have children. I could see where that life was headed, and I knew the resentment would be unbearable. I know only a handful of couples who seem to truly have egalitarian marriages, and who knows who’s really doing all the work, inclduing the mental labor of tracking…

I have family in Columbus, Indiana where residential streets have a mix of one-way and two-way streets. When I drive down there and someone parks the opposite direction on the two-way street, I always always panic thinking I’m going the wrong way on a one-way. It’s a terrible driving experience and anyone who parks…

Pulling through is Okay.  Parallel parking facing the wrong direction is NOT.  

I mean, maybe I could get behind it if we gave everyone a meaningful universal basic income (or everyone had really good career opportunities), Medicare for All, free college tuition, etc. Then we would know there is no economic coercion undercutting meaningful consent.

I like the messaging of, let’s let women decide what to do with their own bodies, but where do we draw lines? What if we legalized people selling their organs and it turned out that only poor people were doing it? Would we say, well, they made a decision about their own body so it must be okay? Or should we say, wait…

I wonder what would be a stance that people would accept (and would actually be good). I feel strongly that people who think we can just make selling and buying sell legal will somehow magically eradicate or have no problematic implications relating to the very real, horrendously harmful, almost-entirely-not-dealt-with…

Also, people who put winter coats in the overhead bin should be permanently banned from flying by the FAA.