I'm not going to say it's naive but I can kind of weigh in here. Part of it is because masculine things are considered 'better'. So in some places, a girl that acts masculine is considered 'better', which is a problem. I didn't wear skirts, or admit I liked pink until college (!) because all of my friends were guys,…

Ok.

Thomson's gazelles are dependent on short grass. Their numbers are highly concentrated at the beginning of the rains since the grass grows quickly. They follow the larger herbivores, such as plains zebras and blue wildebeests as they mow down the tall grasses. Then, the gazelles spread out more.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I think people who say tomboys have it rough are kind of full of crap. Maybe 40-50 years ago, but these days, they are rewarded. Tomboys are glorified in dozens of young adult books, television shows and other media. Girls who play sports in their high schools are rewarded with social cache.…

No. I'm heavily implying that there really isn't a genderflipped version of tomboy because although the patriarchy tolerates (and sometimes even encourages) masculine expression by female assigned people, it absolutely loathes feminine expression for male assigned people. In other words, a more concise and poignant…

You act like capitalism and communism are the only two options. Both are mid to late 19th century to early 20th century ideas. That said, just because early socialist thinkers were sexist doesn't mean socialism is inherently sexist. In fact all the socialists I've ever known were far more progressive when it comes…

"As a man, success is everything. If you aren't successful in a way that is socially laudable, then you have to be good looking. If you aren't that, than you're a failed man. Other men don't want to be with a loser. Women don't want to be with a loser. And despite the social stipulations on how men should treat women,…

Jesus. That must have been hard to write.

The older I get, the more I believe that capitalism and patriarchy as so intertwined that we can't get rid of one without getting rid of the other.

I'm genderqueer, too, also forcibly socialized as female. Also raised in an abusive home. Also felt so, so, so isolated most of my life. I came into the world just one month before Suz, and on the other side of the country in rural Oregon. My dad always said I was the son he didn't have. I remember how my boyhood…

German President Joachim Gauck has praised her bravery, writing to her family, via BBC: "Where other people looked the other way, Tugce showed exemplary courage and moral fortitude."

Consent isn't the absence of no. When you consent, you're actively saying "yes".

I hate that I have to outline this.

Look, if someone had picked up a gun and shot him, would it not have been murder? Taken his watch, that's still theft. Punched him in the face, still assualt. Just because he allowed himself to be vulnerable does not mean that anyone should take advantage of that. Also, arousal of any form is a biological response to…

My mom's side of the family is Sami by way of Sweden, and my stepfather is first generation German-Polish. I worked in Finland for years so I'm the only one of my cousins to have really touched our ancestry in such a way. Sami herd reindeer in the sense of keeping them in herds, some are more nomadic than others, but…

And to be precise - Czech journalists in general are much more progressive in gender equality issues than the rest of the nation. They are usually well educated people with a broad range of knowledge, following foreign media outlets and events on a daily basis. The media I work for do not have "readership" as the…

Yep, a feminist and gender sensitive journalist from Eastern Europe here! I opted to write for independent or progressive media that allow me to highlight topics that bother me. For example Radio Wave, which is a public online youth radio station within the huge public Czech Radio, is a medium that supports gender…

Rides, you are right that people shouldn't generalize. You are also right in that in the US women's rights to safe and legal abortion seem to be (for lack of a better word) highly regionalized. What a woman in NYC might take for granted, in terms of choice, a woman in TX couldn't even dream of. And so on. If…

also moffat should be allowed to have a lot of ideas

Yeah, I like the idea of Martha, particularly how she joined The Doctor of her own accord and for her own reasons (rather than being destined to be a companion or swept up in events) and decided to leave him of her own accord and for her own reasons as well. It's just that middle bit that got muddled up.