True or False: Physically forcing someone to have sex is rape.
As our series on sexual assault continues, we'll find that some of the polling statements are more easily agreed upon than others. Last week's poll included one of those! But before we get to the...
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13-year-old boy suspended for wearing designer purse
Skylar Davis loves his brightly colored crossbody bag from Vera Bradley. The eighth-grader had been wearing it to Anderson County Senior-Junior School every day since August. Everything changed this...
View ArticleA Brief Discourse on Courage and Balls
Recently someone, again, showed confusion about why many here deprecate using the idiom of "balls" for courage. Although I have given a factual proof that this idiom is false in Notable Eunuchs, people...
View ArticleTrue or False: Women provoke and invite rape by their appearance and behavior
Welcome to our weekly series discussing rape and sexual assault. We're into week four and gaining readers with each addition to the series.For those who are new to the series, we are sharing a list of...
View ArticleTrue or False: Most rapists choose someone they know as a victim
Welcome to our weekly series discussing rape and sexual assault. We're into week four and gaining readers with each addition to the series.For those who are new to the series, we are sharing a list of...
View ArticleIf it’s a male Veteran, it’s America’s fault, if it's a women Veteran, it's...
Exactly that is what Jaspen Boothe told us a couple of days ago in an interview. She was talking about homelessness among her sisters, the women Veterans of the United States. I listened up and...
View ArticleTrue or False: An unwilling victim could prevent rape if she or he wanted to.
Welcome back! It must be Thursday and time to tackle our weekly discussion on rape and sexual assault. We're into week five (skipped Thankgiving!) and gaining readers with each addition to the...
View ArticleTrue or False: Rape is prevalent among high school and college students.
Welcome back! It's time to hold our weekly discussion on rape and sexual assault. We're into week seven. We have a set of regular readers and commenters for whom I am very thankful. But it would be...
View ArticleDuck Dynasty Under Fire for Anti-Gay Rant
There is a time to just be quiet. It appears as though members of the popular series 'Duck Dynasty' are about t find that out.http://tv.yahoo.com/...The stars of "Duck Dynasty" might be America's...
View Article“I don’t want a dyke in this school" said Magnolia JHS (then)Principal
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed suit against the Moss Point school district in Mississippi Federal Court charging anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination against LGBT students.The...
View ArticleWorkplace sexism causes human rights violations, major report shows
Published on December 29, 2013 by Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D. in Science Isn't Golden http://www.psychologytoday.com/...Think back to a time when women earned less money than men for doing the same jobs and...
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Irrelevant Crap: Girls
It's interesting. Of the television reviews I've done for this column, most have involved series with a female protagonist. But this is probably the most controversial of the bunch, because of the...
View ArticleBisexuality: What We Have Here is Failure to Communicate
I seem to have kicked up controversy among a few gay men due to my remarks about Andrew Sullivan’s biphobia. I am pleased to respond and take no offense to the criticism. Queer men of a generation...
View ArticleSarah Silverman Punches Huckabee Back: "I'd Like to Control my OWN libido"
Mike Huckabee went on the offensive with a broad attack on women in America, stating that Democrat's couldn't control women's libidos. In response, Sarah Silverman, comic, put this in perspective:“I...
View ArticleRape is STILL Rape and NO means NO!
Tonight, on a local PBS show with local stories, a rape/suicide that happened at University of Missouri over two years ago was brought up. That tweaked my interest as it'd been a long time for it to...
View ArticleNew Rule
Forget the degeneration of indigenous groups by race based names on football teams.After reading yet another college sacrificing the lives of their female students in order to allow football players to...
View ArticleBeyoncé, Libido and Human Sexuality
There's been a lot of talk about sex lately. And not the fun kind of talk either, like when or with whom.We all know how Mike Huckabee was railing against women's libidos earlier this week. (And that...
View ArticleOn Tuesday, Caucus to Legalize Porn in Minnesota
"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus" -The Dude, The Big LebowskiMinnesota's precinct caucuses will be held Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. You can find your...
View ArticleIf you have nothing to hide...
A Canadian Parliament Secretary under pressure at a news conference covering the revelation that thousands of Canadian air travelers at an airport there had their electronic devices marked and tracked...
View ArticleDebunking The Urban Legend of Super Bowl Sex Trafficking
There is a serious problem of human trafficking for purposes of sex and labor. Particularly heinous is the trafficking in children. But urban legends that have been promoted by political leaders not...
View ArticleKansas House Panel approves legislation making Anti-Gay discrimination legal
TOPEKA — The Kansas House will move forward with a bill that would give government employees the right to refuse service to same-sex couples on the basis of their religious beliefs. Republican...
View ArticleMichigan Republican who calls for "Gay Purge" stays while others leave
Some stories are too whack ball to even fathom.Last April, in a rant posted on a blog, a Republican official noted that gays should be purged from the party.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...A new...
View ArticleCALL TO ACTION: Kansas Senate Considers Bailing on HB-2453, the Anti-Gay bill
For the last few hours, I've been occupied as we discuss with members of the state legislature the impact of Kansas HB-2453. Though several diaries have been written about this (I put up one...
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Women's History: Asian and Asian Pacific Islander Americans
Photo posted to twitter #NotYourAsianSidekick, started by Suey Park (@suey_park) decrying stereotypes of Asian American women (Femi Oke/Twitter) History is not simply the past, and young Asian and...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase Refuses to Process Payments for Women Entrepreneurs' Condom...
A news story today made me wonder if I had woken up in 1955, in the starched and sexually repressed world of Back to the Future or Pleasantville. I snapped back to reality as I realized I was reading...
View ArticleMPBN Discusses Transgender Issues
Maine may be a large state geographically, but there's only about 1.5 million people here. Heck, Baxter State Park is about the size of Connecticut. However, there is one thing we do well: LGBT rights....
View ArticlePushing the envelope: love story, with transman
Sunshine Mugrabi's memoir, When my Boyfriend was a Girl, is a love story. In many respects it's a conventional love story: two people meet, there's chemistry, each has reservations about wading in too...
View ArticleMy Good Friend Comes Out as a Bisexual Cross-Dresser on YouTube, With Video.
Meet my good friend. This took a lot of guts, and yes, I have his permission to post this here. In fact, he was hoping I would. Take a look, and I'll let this stand on its own.
View ArticleGenderqueer and Other Difficult Concepts
"If you wanna know something and he won't tell you, cut off one of [the manager’s] fingers. The little one. Then tell him his thumb's next. After that he'll tell you if he wears ladies' underwear."-...
View ArticleAll I am Going to Say about the Mass Murder in Santa Barbara(Warning, A Rant)
This is, hopefully, all I am going to say about the mass murder in Santa Barbara. Just because one has a penis, does not, under any circumstances require ANY female to speak to you, sleep with you or...
View ArticleBattle of the Sexes: You all need to STFU
Divide and conquer.You understand that is what this is right?While we are effectively combatting inequality, flushing Rush, creating sane firearms laws, and battling the Kochitopus, we don't argue...
View ArticleConfession from a late night at the courthouse~By Anon
I was recently, shamefully, in the news. For activities that we tried to cover with lies. Now those lies are blooming into accusations of vote tampering. And my conscience must come clean to appease my...
View ArticleKS County Officially Rejects Grant for Birth Control; (and how Pregnant teens...
Today in Saline County, Kansas, the county commissioners decided to let their 3-0 vote stand, refusing a health grant for the county to provide long term birth control (IUD & Hormone...
View ArticleI like sex
It's my third favorite thing. (Things one and two are eating and sleeping.) Meanwhile, I love my two children and am grateful beyond expression that I have the ongoing experience of being their...
View ArticleSpreading Grandma's ashes; Bless her horny old hide!
My mother-in-law died last October, in Florida, age 86. She was cremated, and we spread her ashes here in New York yesterday. She lived and died on her own terms. Follow me through the "infinity"...
View ArticleMale Victims Of Rape
When we talk about the problem of rape and sexual assault we are usually focused on women as victims and men as perpetrators. There is no shortage of real and serious problems to focus on under those...
View ArticleUPDATED x 4: ISIS Orders Female Genital Mutilation of All Women in Mosul
According to BBC News, the United Nations has announced that the fanatical Islamist group ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has ordered female genital mutllation of thousands of girls and women in...
View ArticleWho are the Next Generation of Prophets?
What follows is my own story. I include it to heighten awareness of what often goes unsaid and unspoken. The problem is as old as the human race itself, but like war, it continues. Everyone with an...
View ArticleBreaking News: Roeland Park, KS approves Non-discrimination policy for LGBT
In a special session called tonight in Roeland Park, Kansas, the city leaders and mayor took up the issue of non-discrimination policy for LGBT members of their community.This move at...
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Stay Safe with Biblically Correct Sex!
Here we go again. It happens at least every week, sometimes every other day.A social conservative says something that we on the left find obnoxiously bigoted and/or ignorant (usually both) and we stop...
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Getting Married? Can't Have Kids? Anti-Gay Zealot Argues It May Be Theft in...
This Friday, the Kansas Federal Courthouse will be the scene of a decision with regards to gay marriage in Kansas. Those who oppose the likely ruling, however, are already out in force....
View ArticleWhy I May Be A Sex Trafficking Survivor, and why it doesn't matter
The line between sexually trafficked children and sexually abused is a fine one. But while both sets of victims should have advocates working together, disconnects ensure child sex trafficking will...
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KS Governor Brownback Issues Executive Order to Re-Instate Discrimination of...
Governor Sam Brownback took out the Governor's pen today to issue an executive order revoking prior policies issued by Governor Kathleen Sebelius. The Executive order, EO 15-2 turns back protections...
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Corporate Giant Salesforce Tells Indiana: Goodbye
Marc Benioff, executive of Salesforce the international CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Giant took a stand today in the passage of Indiana's "religious freedom" legislation. Today we are...
View ArticleDammit, Caitlyn. Stop Making Me Work.
I'm coming out, and it's all Caitlyn Jenner's fault.More below the dooblydoo.
View ArticleAnticapitalist Meetup: Letting It All Hang Out in The Gender Wars
This blog today is going to be relatively long (I will try to identify sections so you can skip to the parts you like), disorganized (it is a huge controversial subject that in hindsight I have only...
View ArticleA Democratic donor preys on young black gay men---and one of those young men...
For any region in this country, there’s a craigslist site. And on those sites, there are personals, and within those personals men gay, bisexual, straight, and otherwise look for other men gay,...
View ArticleEd Buck, former Democratic fundraiser and donor, finally arrested
In 2017, I wrote this diary. Some excerpts:California law allows for the prosecution of people who supply the weapon that causes the drug death---in this case meth. When will the Los Angeles County...
View ArticlePersonal privilege nets professor $400k, because disrespect trumps academic...
A lawfare payday because there’s a market for speech rights when you disrespect your students.xUS professor who refused to call a trans student a woman wins $400k payout on ‘religious and...
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