He’s the person who knows more about me than anyone in the entire world, yet the topic that’s on everyone else’s lips has him keeping his sealed? When I saw that my boyfriend received his voter registration details in the mail, I jokingly asked, “You’re not voting for Trump, are you?” I posed this not […]
Bill Clinton is a problem. And he’s a problem that Hillary should finally, and for the record, stop trying to ignore. Since the release of an on-camera conversation between presidential candidate Donald Trump and TV personality Billy Bush showed Trump bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy,” a national discussion of sexual harassment and assault […]
Trump isn’t the other, as Obama suggested in her speech today. Trump is the man who catcalls us as we hurry to work in the rain, with our heads down trying to avoid notice, and he is the man who brushes up against us in the elevator, ever so subtly, yet ever so purposefully. Speaking […]
We need to discard the idea that friendships can only be real or good if they fit a narrow model of what a relationship looks like. It almost always happens out of the blue. I’ll go to a friend’s profile to share something or send them a message or look for an article they posted […]
Female rage is not only justified, it is a catalyst. A catalyst for change in a culture that tells us to shut up and be pretty. I think a lot of us are angry right now. As I write this, my fists are literally clenching. My joints tight and springy: How dare Trump say such […]
We shouldn’t be surprised when rape culture graduates from boys to men. In 2014, then Florida State Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston, now the starting QB for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, stood on a table in the middle of campus and yelled out: “Fuck her right in the pussy!” It was a popular stunt among men […]
When we help Terrible Men go viral by calling them out, we’re often shedding light on things found in internet hidey-holes where, to be honest, nothing good has ever been produced. If you’re on Twitter, it seems you always find out the same way. You see a new hashtag trending, and a few friends tweet […]
I don’t know Trump personally, but I do know firsthand the damage caused by a controlling, misogynistic, manipulative, racist gaslighter. Content note: abuse By now, most Americans are aware of the unnerving reality that Donald Trump may be the next President of the United States. Trump is known for his unbridled bluster, and his discriminatory […]
