I’m on your side, and I’ve always argued that people should stop talking shit about Britney Spears (when she was a teen, and I had a teen daughter). I believe young girls, and women SHOULD be able to wear whatever clothing they want, or to go naked in public, and if I, as a grown man, find her beautiful, I think that’s normal — Britney was lovely…

I completely agree with everything you said about rape culture, the fallacy of men being unable to control themselves, and removal of power from women over their own bodies. As a father though I REALLY relate to your uncle in his attempts to protect you from the fucked up society we live in and I wanted to disagree with you until I read what you…

Amen! And thanks for writing both pieces. This was clear in your 1st piece. Maybe people don’t want to comprehend what they do not want to hear. Defensiveness, ignorance, fear…nothing is more important than the lives and souls of human beings. Be adults. Do the harder thing.

I also got my menstrual period at age 11 (this was several decades before my gender transition). But whether she is 11, 13, or 15 years old, a girl is a child, not a woman, and a child is not capable of making adult decisions. And more importantly, regardless of age or gender, no style of clothing or makeup excuses ogling or sexual advances. As you…

Go fuck yourself, Stephen Fry

Prefacing this with a warning. Not a trigger warning per se, but a warning that unlike Stephen Fry, I will not be discussing child sexual abuse in infantilising language of a posh git who probably still says, ‘botty’ and ‘pee pee’.