Originally a comment by Freemage on Foreplay is supposed to hurt, yeah?

Yeah, when I encounter SWIFs, I’m always dumbfounded by the fact that they so readily dismiss the notion that people (individually) and society (collectively) are influenced by the media they consume. This is a damned staple of every social justice movement in existence–and yet, somehow, we’re supposed to believe that porn (a genre meant to be consumed at precisely the moment you’re establishing some of the strongest emotional connections in your brain) will have no effect whatsoever.

As for the cultural impact of porn–ask any female comic book fan about ‘pornface’. Apparently, a large number of pencilers in the big comic-book houses (DC, Marvel and Image) make use … Read the rest

When slapping doesn’t mean slapping.

Wow. pic.twitter.com/SwbnCyeETZ

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) August 12, 2018

Wow, she says. Wow, when all she said was

You will get slapped and you will absolutely deserve it.

Does she want white men telling her she’ll be slapped and she will absolutely deserve it? I doubt it.

Literal Nazis running amok on this hellsite, the Berkeley PD is assisting in doxxing protestors…and a tweet from 2017 about protecting trans women gets my account locked.

Ok.

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) August 12, 2018

A tweet about protecting trans women, she called it – carefully not mentioning the “TERFs will be slapped and absolutely deserve it” part.

You couldn’t make it up.… Read the rest

Shameful that it’s needed.

JUST IN: US Senate passes resolution with unanimous consent by voice vote that “affirms that the press is not the enemy of the people” and “reaffirms the vital and indispensable role that the free press serves” and “condemns the attacks on the institution of the free press.” pic.twitter.com/uK8DvhsXie

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) August 16, 2018

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— Indian Atheists (@IndianAtheists) August 15, 2018

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Mo is showing solidarity with the victims of BoJo’s  cruel mockery.

The Patreon… Read the rest

Oh hey, we here in the Northwest have the dirtiest air in the country (well somebody has to) and the worst air on record ever, at least for Seattle.

This probably comes as no surprise, but Washington has the worst air quality in the country today thanks to wildfire #smoke. Conditions improve slightly tomorrow #wawx pic.twitter.com/8jOiUesIaC

— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 15, 2018

Also? Hottest summer ever.

Record broken or broken record? The all-time record for number of 85°+ degree days in a year was set Tuesday in Seattle. The previous record was set in 2017. Oh, it's also only August 15th… #WAwx pic.twitter.com/CLBLASWPAc

— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 15, 2018

Normally I can see 60 miles looking … Read the rest

I think Mimi Rocah is right.

We have now fully entered dictatorship territory. https://t.co/Vot8e9rmLL

— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) August 15, 2018

This is dictatorship territory, and we are now in it. This is bad.

In adding John Brennan to his enemies list, Trump demonstrates again how deeply insecure and vindictive he is — two character flaws dangerous in any President.

An enemies list is ugly, undemocratic and un-American. I also believe this action to silence a critic is unlawful. https://t.co/bfOhThIWfq

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) August 15, 2018

Boy, it sure feels like the president is slowly purging the nation's security apparatus of people he considers personally disloyal https://t.co/mnDaElRaOC

— Matt Ford (@fordm) August 15, 2018

Which should not be the … Read the rest

Oh, a new one – I thought it was just a joke/analogy to talk about “identifying as” an infant but no, of course not, I should have known: it’s a Thing. It’s Adult Babies.

It starts with Neville Southall and (of course) Twitter:

Big Nev has latterly taken to tweeting about social and political issues from a left-wing / liberal perspective, building his follower list to a hefty 144,000.

As part of his aims to spread awareness about various issues, he regularly hands over control of his account to different charities – past participants have been LGBT groups, sex worker groups and a drugs helpline.

Which brings us to Wednesday, when it was announced that a a woman who

Greg Sargent at the Post notes that in primaries, Republicans who are critical of Trump lose to Republicans who passionately defend whatever he does, in particular his bragging about grabbing women by the pussy.

The big news in Tuesday night’s elections is the defeat of GOP establishment pick Tim Pawlenty in the Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary, at the hands of a full-blown Trump loyalist. This makes a Democratic victory in the state more likely, and crucially, it probably makes it easier for Democrats to hold a couple of House seats they are defending in the state, which is key to Democrats’ hopes of taking back the lower chamber this fall.

Beyond this, Pawlenty’s loss provides a useful way to try

There was a Dyke March in Vancouver. You’ll never guess what happened. Danielle Cormier was there:

Having chosen “lesbian heroes” as our theme for this year’s March, we carried homemade signs that featured lesbians we admire — our lesbian heroes — pioneers who have made significant contributions to lesbian culture or allies in the ongoing struggle for lesbian sexual autonomy.

Many of these women are on the ever-growing list of lesbians considered enemies and “bigots” due to their views on gender, female space, or our right to gather separate from males, among peers, and to determine for ourselves who those peers are.

The roster of lesbians whose names have become taboo, forbidden, and synonymous with hatred is notable. Lesbian

Guess what: porn has a bad effect on teenage boys’ ideas about sex.

High school rapists are so influenced by pornography and so lacking in sex education, they think their victims’ tears are “part of foreplay,” says Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism campaign.

Bates shared this shocking finding at the Edinburgh Book Festival, as she warned of an epidemic of sexual assault in British schoolyards — where a rape a day occurs during term time. In the three years to 2015, 600 rapes in U.K. schools were reported to police, according to the Times of London.

Due to schools’ lack of sufficient policies for dealing with the problem, victims of assault are then being returned to classrooms

Planned Parenthood on Facebook:

It’s common to have a wide range of feelings after an abortion. Some people may feel anger, regret, guilt, or sadness, but many ultimately feel relief. And the truth is that most people who have an abortion don’t regret it.

Women. The word is women. Women have abortions. Men do not. Generic “people” do not. Women do. This refusal to say the word “women” has got to stop.

That guy to the left of the purple caption? That’s a guy. He didn’t have an abortion, so he can’t regret his abortion, because he didn’t have one. He’s not part of the class of people who can need abortions, because he’s not part of the … Read the rest