Why is it that it's useful advice to look out for situations in which assault might occur, but only from the point of view of the potential victim, and never the perpetrator? If it's tautological and idiotic to tell people not to rape, yet useful to tell people they might be raped, and useful to tell people how to…

I've sort-of done my duty as a woman with an MA who has 2 girls, but I think I was supposed to have more, and have them on my sister's behalf as well (she's not able to have children) in order to stave off Idiocracy. Allegedly. Obviously IRL the children of people who aren't well-educated can just go on and get a good…

OK, that's bizarre. The U.S. does have a declining birthrate among its native-born population but will be averting Japan's fate for quite some time via immigration. And the U.S. can turn on the faucet whenever it wants more people by just opening the borders; I personally feel there should be a lottery so that…

Yeah but uhhh they can't really be...no, I didn't say that. My life experiences have been particularly bad in this regard but there are many trustworthy, kind men in the world who don't deserve to be blamed for the acts of an...um...substantial minority? Majority worldwide but, hey, they're working on it? Uh. My…

I live in Singapore, and just before I clicked over here I read a comment with a video, and the ad preceding it was an ad for children. Like, the government was saying, women: have children. The ad acknowledged there were problems; "it's hard being a women...[blah balancing blah whatever]...but we're missing out…

I was sort of hoping it would be "Free Fix For a Fuck" by El Duce and his army of Men, The Mentors, but I'm kind of crazy like that.

I'm sorry I reacted in an overly angry way. Honestly, I was annoyed by the article, but that wasn't your fault, after all. I didn't mean to jump down your throat about it. Apologies. It was clear at a certain point you were talking about it in good faith, not just a pointless derail.

Absolutely true. But you yourself admit in this account that there was a significant period during which white women did not, for the most part, wear their hair in intricate braids. On the other hand, during that same period, the social changes that let those white women enter the work force and cut their hair off…

For the most part, recommendations in discussions of this sort that guys pay for sex seem callous and ill-intentioned. And I personally don't regard it as a morally acceptable thing for men or women to have sex with prostitutes except in some very rare high-end circumstances, where it's clear the woman or man is…

Oh damn, Jezebel, why do you always have to be like this? The site notices blatant racism in the fashion media oriented to New York City women fashion consumers; immediately there are about...12, I didn't count perfectly, white women in the thread explaining that the article is not, in fact racist. (That's a load off…

I feel sympathy and sadness reading this. I am a currently-slender, previously-heavy person who loves the beach. I went to the beach fearfully at times. (O HAI all my cousins who've lost all your baby weight after baby 2 while I weigh more than when I gave birth! Let's oil ourselves and lie, glistening, on towels!)…

Naw, it's because a lot of feminists strongly dislike reading Hemingway, considering him part of the Updike/Roth/(OK, hate me for this, but y'all know I'm right in your hearts) Gaddis/Bellow/potentially Miller but-that's-not-really-fair-because-he-wrote-that-shit-in-1930/No-One's Mad at D.H. Lawrence Anymore,…

I'm don't want to contradict the "it's all good in your 30s" guy below, as there's plenty of merit there. When you've got a ton of company it's not as big a deal. That said, as a woman I can see why this would totally suck for a dude. A lot of women go gray in their 20s—I had a friend with seriously a ton of gray by…

I'm not a huge musical fan despite having been in a number as a teenager. I just watched the Music Man with my 9-year-old daughter, though, who loves it. It would be really interesting, actually, to have the "trouble in River city" that the all-boys marching band is meant to fix be something that looks like "thuggish"…

I feel so disheartened when I read someone whose writing and thinking I respect a lot say that she wouldn't identify as a feminist, and will never identify as a feminist. This happens a lot. If white feminists want to understand why this is happening they need to look at things like this. What else was Hugo Schwyzer…

No, see, but she's not. She's coming across as a person who is a Jezebel reader and wonders how the hell they kept him on here after his attacks on WOC. Just like plenty of white feminists have shown up and asked how the hell they kept him on here after he admitted to attempted murder of an ex-girfriend. Every single…

Every single time he had an article up here, I explained about his history, with quotes and links. Other women (who clicked on the greys LOL) were always horrified. This is someone known to have COMMITTED THE MOST SERIOUS FORM OF INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE: MOTHERFUCKING MURDER. His addict girlfriend, who had either had…

WHERE IS THE APOLOGY TO WOC LIKE BLACKAMAZON, ANGRYBLACKWOMAN, FLAVIA DZODAN AND OTHERS WHOM HE EXPLICITLY ADMITTED TARGETING BECAUSE THEY WERE "IN THE WAY"? Where is the acknowledgement that he admitted to trying to murder his ex-GF on his blog, before taking the (cached and reproduced a million times) disturbing…

Oh, Wolfe, God, hand me a glass of fucking arsenic. And fuck a bunch of Gore Vidal, too, though one must admire the man's talent for evisceration.

Yeah, Vonnegut doesn't suck like that. And Gaddis is so sexist you can't appreciate his manifest artistry, but Pynchon is still amazing. Truly, Hemingway is a great author; the cult made him insufferable, but just pretend you don't know who the fuck he is and go back to read the early worlds. Hemingway is hot shit,…