I'm actually against male circumcision as well, but I don't think it's anywhere near the urgent issue Female Genital Mutilation is. I'm also against piercing an infant's ears. But imagine a world in which cultural practice called for chopping some children's entire ears off and in a conversation about that, I popped…

I just really, really love North Carolina (though their politics are awful). Really want to move there in the next few years.

He's not necessarily wrong though?

Cosigned,

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

Hi, I'm new, can someone please explain to me how using another woman's body without her permission to prove some stupid point that everyone already knows is a really cool and feministy thing to do?

I don't understand. Put the cat down? Unless you suddenly caught fire why would you put the cat down? It's your duty, privilege and honor to pet the cat. Putting a cat down is like hanging up on the president when he calls to tell you he loves you and wants to be your best friend and return all your tax money.

I got a confession Burneko. Don't mock me.

And men! This is the kind of research my dissertation is going to be based on. What do you do for a living?

Quakers! I went to a Quaker college, they are pretty awesome. It's different meeting house to meeting house, but my college's was accepting of pretty near everyone and fantastic.

For me, the Duke case is a story about prosecutorial misconduct, not false rape allegations. That guy went so far off the reservation that he was fired, disbarred, and then sent to jail for that shit. Prosecutors play dirty and send innocent people up the river all the damn time, but rarely, if ever, are they held…

My ovaries are doing a happy dance. Loves me some boy with the bread.

Thank you. I read though all the comments this morning. I'm grateful for your honest answer. I come to Jez to read, learn, and communicate. Everyone got really mad and assumed I was trolling but I honestly was just seeking answers.

I always thought the friendship bracelet thing was more of a summer phenomenon so that you could show off your anklets.

Perhaps I should've added that I really didn't get much outside opinion on the photos - I wasn't getting many comments on them, therefore outside opinion wasn't even a factor for me.
I'm defending something that, as dumb as it sounds, really improved my self-image and how I lived day to day. I'm sure I'm not the only…

Okay, this is an issue I hold dear to me for stupid reasons, and I have to defend my selfies. So I'm just copypasting from a little thing I already had written. Apologies for the long post and its almost narcissistic vibe, but I mean what I say here.

Herpes.

It's amazing... I am a veteran combat engineer. I have seen so much misery throughout my life. A family torn apart by horrible tragedy. I never shied away from the fact that life has made me harder than I wanted to be. I feel emotions, yes. I display those emotions, sadly... not very often. Yet, I am sitting here with…

Considering how bad she is at dealing with the issues of women of color, I would say that Miley Cyrus is already pretty good at feminism.

Ever since I saw an epic flower girl meltdown at my cousin's wedding (she vomited, turned on her heel, and ran the other way ... the flower girl, not my cousin), I have been completely unenthused by small children dressed up as miniature brides and grooms, walking down the aisle, holding chalkboard signs that say…