Haha OOPS. I was writing fast. But yes, try it?! Read more

My question is how could anyone who works in media hang herself so badly in an interview? Especially "...then I could be relating to the people where, literally, their feet are in their own feces in Africa, in the slums." Chelseaaaaa. Pro tip: never say you can relate to anyone who's stepped in his or her own feces… Read more

One of my favorite things to do while traveling is explore supermarkets. Buenos Aires supermarkets have an "American aisle" which usually offers one lone bottle of Newman's Own salad dressing and maybe, if you're lucky, some Jif/Skippy peanut butter, but then there will be literally 50+ types of dulce de leche. Read more

Where are you living? Read more

What brand of birth control pill do you most commonly recommend to the average patient? This might be a hard question to answer generally, because I know different pills affect women in different ways, but do you have a preferred brand and, if so, why? Read more

Yep. Add that to the fact that they knew each other for a year prior to the incident — I'm sure that will make it harder for people to take it seriously. Because rapists are always scary strangers who jump out of the bushes, not football player pals. Read more

Good point, but I wonder if they knew beforehand that they were testing out a perfume that's supposed to curb appetite cravings. Probably? Read more

I am most like football player Eniola Aluko HMMM http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/athletes/7e308074-72ea-46c8-96c3-f8e8c75e37b8 Read more

He didn't say "his services" specifically — he said that's how his company would treat that type of situation in general. Harping on his advice is missing the point, though — the big issue is that Urban Outfitters has done even less than his suggestion, because they clearly don't want to close the store down even if… Read more

That pretty much sums up how I always felt. Read more

Were any of you guys huge fans of Lehrer before all this happened? I haven't read much of his stuff — Malcom Gladwell-esque "big sciencey ideas made simple for regular folk" pieces aren't really up my alley — but I always heard more about how brilliant he was than actually heard or read anything brilliant that he… Read more

So excited to read it! Can I borrow it from you? Why am I asking you this via Kinja? Read more

Someone at my old job once told me that "your editors make your enemies for you." (Not referring to my job here! My Jezebel editors are the best!) I think that can be true — and Buck's editors are certainly at fault here — but journalists know that, at the end of their day, they take responsibility for the words… Read more

"that woman shouldn't have a vagina in the first place" :( Read more

OHHH so sorry! My mistake. I didn't realize a woman and her "sexual integrity" were two different things! Give it up. Read more

Oh god, I'm soooo sick of the "replace rape with theft" argument. Rape and theft aren't analogous at all. "Leaving a bicycle out without a chain and lock" is NOT the same as "a woman jumping naked with a man into bed." By equating a woman — a PERSON — with a bike, you're saying she's an object that needs to be… Read more

That's a great point — your takeaway is way more positive than mine, which was more "ugh this exists but we can learn from it," not "these men are learning from it, too." Read more

I don't think we should listen to this Reddit thread so we can personally prevent rape. I don't think it's up to a woman herself to prevent rape. (See: the whole point of SlutWalk, etc.) The thread is important in terms of analyzing rape culture because how can we teach people not to rape and why rape is wrong if we… Read more

Mmk, I understand how you feel, but I also can't help but wonder ... if you read the post before commenting? Because my entire point is that we shouldn't listen to their stories to feel sorry for them; we should listen so we can understand rape culture. Read more

The article was horrible (the spreadsheet of her friends? WTF?) but I tried to ignore that because, like you said, it's not Emma's fault, and I decided long ago that life is too short to make fun of every single NYT trend piece. (Not that I abstain completely.) I don't think Emma deserves all of the shit she's getting… Read more