Yuuuuuuup.

Consistently debunked psuedoscience. It's like saying that climate change deniers are climatologists, or that a flat earther is a geologist. They use "social science" to give their ideology legitimacy, when it has no basis in the data. Augustin Fuentes, an actual social scientist, gave an excellent rebuttal to a racist like Charles Murray after his lecture at Notre Dame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDeBL6FuP0&t=53m23s

I take it as more evidence that Gould was on the right track with punctuated equilibrium.

I have to say that if they really do explore alternate universes with this, then I take back every criticism I've ever made of the show. It would be so intensely brilliant, and that twist ending made me very excited. Alternate universes would make every weird inconsistency make sense. It had to be hard to wade through all of the backlash with all of the changes only to keep thinking "damn it, people. Bear with us. There's a payoff involved here!"

Also, <3 Stamets.

Some articles are gold, but much of Autostraddle reads like just a white lesbian social circle. Those editors can get hyper-defensive and delete a lot of opinions that don't agree with them.

Gould wrote about Kropotkin?! I know that might not matter to most, but since Gould was a massive influence on me... thank you. I am going to read this and hold it close to my heart.

That's ok! You're ok just as you are. :)

It's either: slutty, just a phase, or you're a predator. I've gotten them all at one time or another.

White feminism at its worst.

Wow. What human garbage. Denying the agency of sex workers and the policies and advice of actual humanitarian workers.

"Intelligent feminists" What classist bullshit.

She is an exemplary case of why those who commodify and sell "feminism" aren't allies.

On that note: I have immense personal hatred for Girls, as someone who abused me used it as a justification for hurting me. He used it to say that young women were vapid and deserved abuse, because they could easily get out of abusive relationships but don't. He was a huge fan of the show. It perpetuates stereotypes, racism, and sexism and displays a gross amount of classist themes.

I personally think that the problem is if it's applied within the state and people call upon the power of the state to enforce consent as a felt sense. I am wary of applying this in the context of the state, as such ambiguous policing of sex has more often than not been used to punish queer or otherwise marginalized people.

Having said that, I will say that this concept helped me heal a few years ago when I first ran across it. It was therapeutic and I think it could be a powerful tool toward dismantling patriarchal notions of sex. And, as you said, it's something to consider in non-legalistic models.

I was going to write something, but I couldn't put it better.

Chaika is probably my favorite. The music video is choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VakUHHUSdf8

Obligatory https://duckduckgo.com/

Exceptionally well written and clear about the power relations involved. She has my admiration for speaking out.

Is anyone else worried that because of this that the movement against sexual assault might be co-opted by anti-LGBT+ causes? I am thinking of cases like the San Antonio Four, and it worries me.

(Also, fuck Kevin Spacey)

Indeed they should be. This will single-handedly be the death blow of graduate education in the United States, which is already on life support. Universities would have to either eliminate graduate tuition (that'll happen when hell freezes over), only admit the independently wealthy, or only admit students from abroad. An insidiously ingenious way of dismantling graduate education.

By far the best so far. I hope they keep this up.

That was something that got me hooked, actually. For once we got a "groundhog day" trope that wasn't from the perspective of the person aware of the loop. And even though Stamets wasn't the focus of the episode, it gave him some nice character development.

Episode 7 finally got me on bored. Fantastic story. Still iffy about the plot, but 7 made me go, "eh, I'm still watching and maybe they'll make more of this."

Yup.