You guys do know that something else happened on Twitter today, right?

This is a beautiful poem by Leo Marks, a coder for the British during WW2. It was used as a poem code by a young French spy, Juliette Szabo, before she was executed at Auschwitz. Rumor has it, she recited it right before the gun. It was also read at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.The life that I haveIs all that I haveAnd…

Yeah...that was all in quotes. Portraying a possible position while criticizing it. You didn't get that from the context? Go back to community college.

I was criticizing any conflation of the relatively moderate attacks on American women with the wholesale attacks on Afghan women. You stupid asshole. Did you not even read my comment?

I've never understood that point. People often say that since the US is in bad shape in this or that way, we should be "focusing" on us. But what does that mean? What human and financial resources spent in Afghanistan would have been spent on women's rights if they had stayed here in our country? How would bringing…

I'm not sure what you mean by, "Should the US ignore human rights violations and not fight those wars?" Do you mean, should the US have invaded Afghanistan to begin with? People of course have varying opinions on that question, but one thing no one believes is that we invaded Afghanistan in order to stop human rights…

Sigh. He made it "a gender thing." He was mad. He had road rage. Sure. He may have even felt the same degree of anger if the driver had been a man — the victim could be wrong in her analysis that "he was angry that a young, female driver had stopped him from passing." But that doesn't change the fact that he made it…

Right, but whether or not she'd keep working with them was never the question. The question was always only about her "Angel" status.

Did he refute the claim that she won't be an "Angel" or won't work for the company — two different things? The rep said: "While her international commitments have kept her away from us more than we'd like over the past few years, she will always be an Angel to me" — hardly proof that she's retaining that particular…

Be my shrink? :)

I'm not comfortable fully answering your question on here, because my bf reads this site, but here's a sample: measurably taking on the symptoms of physically ill people I care about within days of learning *their* symptoms; hypersexuality; mania and depression (but apparently such that they don't fit the bipolar…

Yeah. I'm a hypochondriac of sorts, so I've had a ridiculous number of tests and full blood work write-ups. I've had every sort of diagnosis, and it was only after I obtained a copy of my files and saw the handwritten notes that I realized how baffled these guys were. "She doesn't present like anything I've ever…

Does anyone else fail to respond to medication that's supposed to impact their psychological wellbeing? Or fail to be diagnosable? I'm perversely proud of having stumped a couple famous professors of psychiatry.

That is fantastic.

Nothing about this piece makes sense.

Are there more pics than the three I'm seeing? Or is the entire story that precisely three celebs turned up at some Target designer's launch? Why are we supposed to care? I'm not trying to be negative, I just can't for the life of me see why this is newsworthy.

Muslimah Media Watch might be a good place for you to start your research.

The claim is that wearing gender-specific clothing that reflects one's religious values isn't intrinsically oppressive; oppression comes from being forced to wear that clothing, or forced not to. A feminist in a country that forces women to dress in a particular way — to dress in that way because they are women — is…

(Side note — the ancient Greeks thought that small and thin penises were preferable; they saw a smaller phallus as more elegant and aesthetically pleasing, which goes to show that admiring well-endowed men is not necessarily an innate human trait).

Amina herself has said that while she appreciates the support, and likes Femen in general, she doesn't agree with the topless protests outside of mosques; that that's going too far. (There are unverified rumors that her statements have been coerced by family and/or caretakers, though this seems unlikely to me as she…