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You would think that after a man killed multiple people because he didn’t get the sex he felt entitled to, that no one would take his ideas about women and sex seriously. Enter male pundits, who for some reason felt it totally appropriate to pontificate on whether “redistributing sex” for the poor lonely men who can’t get any is a good idea.

It’s hard to describe what it feels like to be a woman in this culture right now – it’s bad enough policy-wise, but then we have the nightmare of men getting paid to treat our lives and bodies like thought experiments. Should women be hanged for having abortions? Should we have a government policy that forces women to have sex with people they don’t want to? It’s like living in the Twilight Zone.

I would hate to think that only women should write about issues that affect us, but men are not doing such a stellar job lately of convincing me otherwise.

Glass half full

A racist tried to rip up a protest sign and … it didn’t go well. Have watched this at least five times.

What I’m RTing

Who I’m reading

What I’m ordering

Roxane Gay has an anthology that’s just come out called Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. I can’t say I’m looking forward to reading it, but I know it will be brilliant and necessary.

How outraged I am

The Trump administration is pushing a policy that would essentially be a domestic gag rule – barring doctors who receive Title X funding from even mentioning the word abortion. On a scale of one to 10, I’m at a 15.

How I’m making it through this week

This goat working up his courage is a salve to my soul.