I started thinking about this properly, rather than leaving the phrases I could say during a funny turn at 'factory default settings' (that is, self depreciating nonsense), after encountering Captain Awkward's blog and The Pervocracy and reading a lot. Both of those blogs advocate thinking of what you're going to say when an inevitable situation ( Read more... )

A discussion of this post about what men could be doing to reduce rape culture ended up with the guy I was talking to changing his facebook status to 'Hey guys! Stop raping people! Seriously! NOT COOL!'

...based on the assertion that the kind of guy who is likely to be a problem is also the kind of guy that is more likely to listen to another guy ( Read more... )