Yes, if you laugh at or make jokes about marginalized communities in the context of a comedy standup routine, that means you actually feel that that way about those communities.

This reminds me of one of my co-workers that no one talks to anymore. I’ve been here for five years. The first year, this person went by she/her. Then this person came out as trans during my second year and went by “they” only. Then they came out as trans non-binary my third year and went by “they/ he” and would have…

Right. Because only white liberal women can spot a narcissist and refuse to participate in said narcissist’s identity issues.

J.K. Rowling never said or suggested that transgender people are just a bunch of violent men. She said, rightly so, that males who are seeking to harm other (vulnerable) males and/or females (and children, since children will generally be absorbed into female spaces, such as a male child using the ladies’ room with…

Yeah, good point. For some reason, when women disagree with the trans community (and its allies) about what gender is, it’s totally ok to threaten them with rape and death. It’s totally consistent with feminism.

Oh, thank you for writing this. I just went through hell and back when my boyfriend (? I think he’s still my boyfriend) started exhibiting signs of schizophrenia in March and things went downhill REAL quick REAL fast because, unfortunately, over 50% of schizophrenics suffer anosognosia and cannot recognize they are…

Agreed with everything you wrote here, 100%.

Agreed. I was a horrible bully in one school and then relentlessly bullied in another. When I was a bully, I also picked on animals (used to rip the legs off of live lizards just for fun and tried to sell the legs to other kids). I am now vegan for 10+ years, contribute to works about animal rights, and don’t even…

That caught my attention as well. The inability of 90% of the American population to process the point of a question and then adequately respond is stunning. I work as a paralegal and 9 times out of 10, when I ask for, say, a W-2 form, I’ll get anything but a W-2 form, or if I ask “what dates/times are you unavailable…

You are the sole source of your feelings of worth, value, importance, and specialness. Even the best relationship in the world will not make you feel those things if you suffer from self-esteem issues (as Stuck should know, given she sounds like she’s currently in a great relationship with a great person yet she is…

Thank you. I don’t know that many men who get upset about men existing in different shapes and sizes. However, men who are chill about body diversity in men tend to have less chill viewpoints when it comes to women existing in different shapes and sizes.

Ha, yeah, that’s true-- vegetables seem to be sort of disappeared from some contemporary diet crazes, which really makes no sense to me!

I don’t understand how anyone can defend Lovato in this situation. Aside from the point others have made that it’s on you to manage your triggers instead of expecting the entire world to cater to your specific issues, the fact that frozen yogurt was originally devised from diet culture is a moot point. Birth control…

As a fellow philosopher, I hope you are aware Michel Foucault was a hardcore proponent of pedophilia. Not sure you want to quote him as a voice of reason in the same piece in which you’re critiquing that anyone could take seriously a paper on “The Moral Status of Harmless Adult-Child Sex,” which sounds like something…

Yes! You can draft separate wills, people. Also, in the rare event that both parents die, if the sister steps up and requests guardianship of the daughter and doesn’t have any red flags in her background, the court will most likely grant the request. In my state, usually a family member will immediately take the child…

Obesity is just the first thing that came to my mind, though, because every news outlet kept blasting statistics about how being overweight was linked to an increased risk of complications from COVID-19. 

Thank you for being a voice of reason. Every single person in my office (all over 40, all with weight issues) is falling for this marketing ploy. It’s not fatphobic to point out that most people in this country do not understand the concept of “moderation” and many companies profit from that. 

“I am not surprised that nobody (except for me) is talking about this. Women don’t get called out on sexism (especially on Jezebel), and people of color don’t get called out on racism (especially on Jezebel), and especially when it is intraracial racism.” - yeah, I guess I should have clarified that I’m surprised no…

I am surprised no one is talking about this. I lived in California for ten years, so all of my friends were either Persian, Latinx, or Asian. And, dear God, all of my Asian female friends would *explicitly* super grossly admit they were only willing to consider white men as romantic partners, and then go on to…

Great response. Also, I’d imagine discussions about (potential) health issues would have already come up several times already anyway before you were at the point where you thought “this person is THE ONE.” In fact, I’d imagine that would be one determining-factor in making the decision that s/he *is* the one. Not…