Brock Turner (above) was caught raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at Stanford.

The conscience of everyone who has a moral compass was shocked this week when Brock Turner, who was caught in the act of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, received a lenient six-month sentence. After being convicted of three felonies, including assault with intent to rape.

This is not justice, and steps have already been taken to recall the judge responsible for the sentence, Aaron Persky.

​The victim, who has chosen to remain anonymous, released the letter that she read aloud to her attacker at the trial to Buzzfeed on June 3. By June 6, over 6.2 million people had read her 7,000+ word statement. (It's powerful. If you haven't, you should read it.)

When I saw #NationalSendANudeDay trending on Twitter last, I thought it was dumb and would obviously go away soon.

But it didn't, and then it trended on Facebook, too. 

I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone -- especially the young people: almost everyone you share a nude selfie with will show at least one (but usually multiple) other person.

A few months ago, I wrote Intersectionality is the OPPOSITE of Feminism. In it, I gave several examples of causes that are unrelated to feminism taking precedence over actual women's issues -- all in the name of "intersectionality."

One of the main criticisms I've received about the article is that I don't understand intersectionality. The thing is, I do. To me, there's intersectional feminism -- a good thing -- and there's "intersectional" feminism -- a bad thing.

Pretty girl here (#ChooseBeautiful, amirite?). Like Felicia Czochanski, who recently sparked pure, ugly hatred on the internet for having the nerve to call herself pretty, I am tall and slender, with clear skin and a nice face and stuff. (I don't have 34DDs, though.) 

As tired as I am of hearing people skinny shame and hot shame attractive women (Dear Social Justice Warriors: either it's okay to reduce a woman to her appearance, or it's not --  please make up your mind), I must admit that being pretty confers certain advantages. 

​Last week, Feministing published “Here’s What I Would Have Said To You Last Night Had You Not Cum And Then Fallen Asleep.” (It’s the kind of article you click because it has a catchy title, and then you hate yourself for it.)
 
In short, the author suggested that the very real and well-documented “orgasm gap” is not due to gender differences in anatomy or psychology… but due to “the patriarchy.”

Anyone I've had a longer-than-eight-minute conversation with in the last year has probably heard me say that women need to #BeRude. It's also something I've blogged about -- as per The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Gif All Women Need to See Immediately:

There are a lot of great guys out there... who are disguised as thoughtless, rude or even creepy guys. There are a lot of great guys who have problems in their dating and relationships, and they're not quite sure why. And there are guys who are doing just fine... but are always looking for ways to improve.

Part of it has to do with the fact that there's a lot of misinformation about women out there. Today, I'm going to help out by discussing six myths men believe about women, that are actually completely wrong. If I missed any, share them in the comments!

Pop quiz! Please answer True or False for each of the following questions: ​

Five years ago, I was at this big house party, reuniting with some old friends after a crazy summer in Poland. Suddenly, this tall, handsome dude walked in the door. I swear -- to me, he looked like he was standing in a beam of sunshine (even though it was 10:30pm). The moment he entered the room, he saw me, too. And even though he was all the way on the other side of a crowded room, he walked straight over to me. At least two other girls stepped into his path and tried to hit on him, but he brushed them politely aside and continued towards me. I was the only girl he wanted to talk to that night. 

Yesterday, I posted Dear Confused Dude: Here's Why You Didn't Get a Second Date. The post seems to have caused some confusion -- particularly to a vitriolic dude who sometimes goes to the same karaoke place I do. 

Todd seemed to think that my post was targeting him (it wasn't), because he seemed to believe that he and I had "kissed," and that I am a "great kisser."

But here's my advice to Todd (and all the guys like him): if you had to grab her by the back of the head and force your faces together, it doesn't count as a kiss. It counts as assault. Our lips touched, ever so briefly, before I yelled, "NO!" -- but they only touched because you held me in place and rapidly pushed your face into mine before I knew what was happening. It was not a kiss.