'i'm going to use violence against you to teach you that violence is wrong! except when i use it! because ... '

I have yet to hear a good argument for spanking. what happened to using your words? if you wouldn't hit an animal to reprimand it (you shouldn't be hitting animals to reprimand them), why would you do the same to a human child? I just don't get it. (I mean, I do, but it's gross.)

twenty-seven and counting, actually — and a majority opinion (especially that of a popular commenter) doesn't mean that disagreement doesn't exist. good try on trying to 'disprove' my point, though!

overwhelmingly evident

When something catastrophic happens in your life, everyone rallies around you. You're getting all of the attention and love and support that you've always wanted, but it's not for something positive. [...] I wasn't raised to be coddled. I was raised to be an independent woman, standing on my own two feet."

yes, having basic empathy and respect is exactly the same as a hug circle. grow up and get some perspective.

her method isn't what's problematic; it's the fact that she's applying it to all rape victims/survivors, and acting as if it's the only acceptable way to frame the situation.

attractive white twenty-somethings are doing well on a dating website. more at eleven.

i got adam, so just know that it could be worse!

but since none of that appears to have happened, one wonders why you're so desperate to defend him.

No reason to speak ill of the dead, they can't hear you.

Again its the subconscious mistake of internalizing rape being about procuring sex.

ha, okay. there was enough cringing during the scene last season where underwood eats zoe out while she's on the phone with her dad, so like ... if I can avoid anything approaching that level, I will.

thanks for the heads-up, because I actually do watch it with my parents — I couldn't resist starting it this weekend, but haven't gotten to 11 yet. will advise them to watch that one alone, ha.

Putting the man in her place creates a similar sense of belittlement.

yes, I'm sure there are a few people here and there who mix up white actors — that's not my point. my point is that it's not a widespread phenomenon the way it is with black actors (black actors who look nothing alike aside from the fact that they're both not white), there's a reason for that, and it's not pretty.

Most people have the concept of "famous black actors" in their mind

listen, shaving those downy hairs is just pleasing.

It should be legal, because sometimes it's absolutely necessary, but we should all be trying one fuck of a lot harder not to get pregnant.

shouldn't he, I don't know, just spitballing here, SUFFER A CONSEQUENCE???