Also "Make Sure To Promote The Few Random Comments From Newbies Who Aren't Aware Of Your Sketchy History That Sort Of Vaguely Agree With You, Even If They Are Otherwise In No Way Interesting Or Worth Promoting".

This is one of the sneakiest and most pervasive ways that sexism is reinforced. There's this cultural assumption (in lots of cultures, not just this one) that a man's reputation is more important than a woman's...well, anything, really. Certainly more important than a woman's right to bodily integrity, or personal…

There's no doubt that some people have a stronger sense of aesthetics than others. It can be encouraged or discouraged, and because of that there are variations in how it manifests, but it's definitely not one of those things that's 100% environmental.

I can easily believe that some kids have both strong personal preferences and a good sense of what looks good on them (I was one of those!), but the idea that they're tiny little trend canaries? No. Fashion trends are tied to a whole lot of societal stuff that little kids are mostly oblivious to.

Nah, inquiring minds don't really want to know. Defensive white people who're annoyed that someone might notice that they're racist apparently do, though.

As another metal person, I agree. In fact, that imagery and how common and loved it is is why much as I like the music, I don't care for many of the people who make it.

"If we finally got rid of the idea that fashion is for victims, maybe we'd see fewer victimized women in fashion magazines. "

It's not revealing at all if the people wearing it are in, say, indoor lighting. When the sunlight is shining through, though, it can be distressingly revealing (to a tweener, at least).

Well, I'm nosy enough to wonder what you're hinting at. Do you think she's living beyond her means?

On the plus side, death metal titles are often hilarious. Not intentionally so, but still.

I'm loving the fact that as she gets older she's being allowed to be her true, weird self, rather than being marketed as sexy, sexy jailbait the way she was when she first appeared. I am not liking what it says about how our society views women, particularly in the entertainment industry, that she's only allowed to be…

Be glad that all you can see is the outline of the underwear. I used to live in the Kingdom and saw a lot more random balls than tweener me was at all comfortable with. Thin white fabric is rather transparent in bright sunlight.

It's not an accident that the clearest predictor for which groups will experience the highest rates of ED is "is attracted to and in relationships with men". I'm glad that people are finally talking about the way this stuff affects gay men, because nobody cares if it only affects women, but the social mechanism behind…

I'm not flexible about the way men I'm going to date/fuck look, at all. I guess the conditioning didn't take in my case (and I agree with you, women are actively conditioned to ignore their own preferences, and that's not an accident, it's systematic oppression). Now, I'm actually a lot more polite about expressing my…

Yep. I've met plenty of individual Japanese guys who aren't sexist at all, but it's really hard for one individual to fight an entire society. Most people who don't agree with the whole traditional family model end up just opting out and not having kids at all. So in a way the statistics are encouraging in that they…

A friend of mine from Hokkaido once made me incredibly sad when I had just interviewed a Japanese rock star and sent her some pics since she was curious about him, and one of them was of him cuddling his then-toddler daughter. Next time I saw her I asked her if she got the pics and she went very quiet, and then said…

It's really a shame that he can't get over that, because the comments are what make these sites worth reading, imo. Not to insult the Jez writers, because some of them are awesome, but it's the comments that really keep readers coming back.

Even if people don't care about being polite (and let's face it, people like the OP don't), you'd think that they would be able to figure out that if they want to see changes happen in the Muslim countries in which there are serious gender issues, that goal is very unlikely to be achieved by randomly snarking at Islam…

I've been saying since I was a kid that sometimes I want to transform into the Feminist Avenger and show up whenever a woman or girl is being harrassed or hurt to scare the crap out of the man doing the harrassing. The cape is optional, right?

I wonder how many former Gawkerites have fled. Also, I suspect that that was the plan all along, since boss-dude has said in the past that he doesn't like comments. What better way to drive commenters away without actually banning comments than make the comments section incredibly annoying to use?