Men make shit up, expect to be believed

I recently discussed on Hathor how birth control pills are the only solid treatment for many cases of PCOS in which a woman is not trying to get pregnant. A commenter shared it on Facebook and got the following response from a male med student reading her Facebook: “Annie, that has to be the most [...]

Health insurance is about the next generation

It recently has come to my attention that at least three people I know don’t realize there are limits to who you can insure on your health care insurance plan in the USA. First, let me explain briefly how health insurance works in the US. There is no socialized insurance, except for people over 65 [...]

Distinguishing privilege from good luck and achievement

In life, there are three reasons why things go well for us: privilege, random good fortune, and/or that we worked to make something happen. I recently encountered a really good example of all three at work when my DSL internet connection went down for two days. I know several people who have no internet connection [...]

Height privilege: what the hell is that?

Would someone please explain to me why most people seem to think it’s so wonderful to be tall, and tall people are better, and being tall is an advantage? I have never understood this. When I was a child, friends would fret about my lack of height. I had real problems for which I got [...]

Religion isn’t necessary for morals

Every now and then, I come across someone wondering in honest confusion, “How can a person have any morals without believing in God?” I’ve asked several of them to expand on why they think without God a person would conclude that murder’s an okay thing to do, and it seems to boil down to a [...]

How the “golden child” upbringing is abusive

One of my more controversial articles on Hathor has been How Not to Raise a Rapist. In it, I assert that the way to avoid raising a son or daughter who sexually assaults people is simply not to abuse your kids (the logic behind which is in the post). The comment thread brought up a [...]

Extroverts provide a privilege demonstration

It’s kind of amazing. I wrote a post a while back about how introverts are not privileged in the USA. I wrote about ways in which introverts are cool and don’t get as much credit as they should and why introverts might not be the USA’s idea of perfect citizens. But quite a few extroverts [...]

To the university that’s banned this blog

I just found out a university has blocked this site from its students. They’re fine with Hathor, apparently – that one’s still available, but not this one. I have one response: Fuck you, pathetic assholes. I can’t even find a trigger word that would set off the most ham-fisted filter (that’s not on Hathor, anyway). [...]

Response entitlement: you don’t have any

I’m not sure why lately commenters have been expressing to me the idea that if they leave a four-foot-long comment, they are automatically entitled to a lengthy response in which I address every point. Let me tell you – if life worked like that, a bunch of us online feminist/womanist types could tie up all [...]

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