Oh, now I understand. Yeah, lots of cultures do it, not just Muslims and it wouldn't hurt middle America to know that. The intent—keeping those sinful women from showing their sinful bodies—is still the same, though, which is why I don't like it regardless of whether it's Christians, Jews or Muslims doing it.

Yes. But not a soul patch. Aside from making one look like a hipster douchebag, they can be unpleasantly abrasive.

Maybe if it grows out that long it would be soft instead of bristly? And if they don't have moustaches and the area around the mouth is hairless...wouldn't that be less painful abrasion on the sensitive ladybits than a traditional beard-n-moustache?

The problem feminists have with communities that enforce modesty laws has nothing to do with believing that everyone in that culture is bad. The problem is that that the modesty tradition is based on the belief that women's bodies are need to be covered all the time lest they tempt men into sin.

In my elementary school years, I had the exact same bowl cut as that dude on the lower right in the blue shirt.

You must be living in that post-racial society I've been hearing about.

A completely legitimate question given that it's Boss Hawg Barbour we're talking about.

That bikini bottom looks like what I'd always dreaded would happen if my period suddenly started at the pool.

Brow lifts are notorious for giving you the "O RLY?" look. As we age, our brows lose firmness and start to slump downward. It will eventually kind of hang over or rest on the upper eyelid when we're elderly. The brow lift corrects that downward slump but the key is not to yank it back up so high you get the…

Meh. By that rationale we should end oppression by legalizing everything and allowing people to do as they please. Which might work for arch-libertarians, but it's not my bag.

OMG—-I bet if you looked at the address label it would read: M. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Paris, France.

I went to Cambridge and I remember the first time I was driving through there and saw those signs. Total double take. This was in the days before Google, so I actually wound up asking someone at my college WTF that was about. I felt way dumb when I was told that it was an agricultural product.

I'm jealous of you because my fashion sense tends to reflect my extremely non-edgy sensibility. I just don't feel comfortable in odd combinations or bright colors or big patterns. Which is probably why I love Dolly so much. She just wears all that stuff with such confidence and sass.

Dolly basically wears costumes for her larger-than-life persona. They're not meant to be taken seriously—-they're meant to be colorful and flamboyant and awesome. Anyone who got all snotty about her "fashion sense" would be missing the point.

I was mostly taking the piss. As for the "irony," in order for it to be ironic, you'd have to think that banning the sale of alcohol is act of political oppression the way disenfranchising women is, which I think is a HUGE stretch.

I bet you could find a relevant usage talking about the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate of Israel.

Yes, no one ever should have let those women vote because they might support an unmitigated disaster. Better to just let the men do all the disaster-making on their own.

Journalists solicit people's opinions—-i.e. their feelings—-on issues all the time. There were plenty of stories in the media both at the time and on the anniversary about how Arizonans felt about the shooting, about politics, about what it meant for their communities. What you're saying is that because this guy had…

I wish it had given you something more scandalous, then! :)

I dunno that it's EXACTLY like that, but yes, whenever you object to misogyny, there will always be someone who thinks that their personal cause is more important, and really, why are we so focused on the ladies when we could be focused on someone else.