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When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege: Personal Development gurus can get away with whatever they want, so why can’t you?

Birth Control Sabotage as Domestic Violence: A Legal Response

Why Is the NYPL Hosting Convicted Rapist Mike Tyson? Or, Why the fuck is anyone paying any attention whatsofuckingever to rapist Mike Tyson? This article clearly outlines my thoughts.

CDC Data WTF? On Number of Sexual Partners
Median number of female sexual partners in lifetime, for men 25-44 years of age, 2006-2008: 6.1
Median number of male sexual partners in lifetime, for women 25-44 years of age, 2006-2008: 3.6

Okay, so the average man sleeps with 6 women and the average woman sleeps with 4 men. In their entire life. What? Okay, maybe I'm just a big slut. Whatever. It's cool; I'm sex-positive, haha.

Finally, when I read articles, websites generally suggest articles. Here's one such list of suggestions:

The Aesthetics of Internalized Racism, As Seen In "The Bluest Eye"

            One of the most striking elements of The Bluest Eye is the sheer number of perspectives; all rounded and fleshed without judgment on the part of the author. As a reader, I am used to a more directed point of view, wherein every character whose point of view we see is either sympathetic or unsympathetic, as guided by the author. Even nuanced characters are ultimately good or bad, and the worse they are, the less we are given to understand them. However, in the case of The Bluest Eye, while the focus is largely on the ‘good’ characters, Claudia MacTeer and Pecola Breedlove, we are also led to understand the ‘worst’ characters, in Cholly Breedlove, Soaphead Church, and the townspeople altogether.

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If you are a man, and you love any woman in the world - your mother, sister, daughter, wife, movie star; I don't give a fuck - read these articles. The first one if no other.


Rape Culture 101: On What It's Like To Be A Woman

To all those men who don’t think that rape jokes are a problem.

A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar: A post about rape jokes.

Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced.

Meet the Predators: Or, How To Almost Spot the Rapists at a Party (Also known as, who the f is doing all of this raping?)

Why I Didn't Report My Rape

Prison Rape and the Government

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The Irrational Consumer: Why Economics Is Dead Wrong About How We Make Choices: A new paper reviews how psychology, biology, and neurology are ganging up on economics to prove that, when it comes to making decisions, people are anything but rational.

IRS sued for not enforcing politicking restrictions on churches! Yay!

On the "mind-blowing" revelations offered by use of LSD in science. Because science!

Occupy Earth Day: An Expose of the Corporate Propaganda Systems that Undermine Systemic Change Activism

The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer: Inside the military's culture of sex abuse, denial and cover-up.