Making gifts out of hair was really popular in Victorian England, especially as a romantic gesture. There'd be jewelry, pictures, clothes, all kinds of stuff. They also liked to make stuff with hair from dead people as a way to remember those that passed away.

I feel like Lori Petty and Yoga Jones (aka Patti Mayonaise) are secretly sisters.

Is anyone else bothered by the extremely problematic conflation of being the "bottom" in a relationship with being emasculated/lesser? Haven't feminists and activists in the LGBT community spent a LOT of time trying to make people realize that being on the receiving end of penetration doesn't make you "less of a man"…

While I think that something being "art" in some ways changes the message and the intention of the piece, at a certain point you have to look at what the object itself is, how the object is being used, and how the audience is receiving the message of the art. In the context of this photo, this isn't just a chair that…

Do you mean Mrs. Hudson?

I'm very disappointed in the way that you begin with something so progressive and then walk yourself back to gender norms. After asking "who [is] to say what is only for women, anyway?" you answer your own question by basically declaring that all of the men are wearing scary things that are only for women. There were…

Mia McKenzie had a very good take on all of this, especially the fraught relationship between white feminists and feminists of color: http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/12/defend… While I agree that it's counterproductive to have a fight that starts and ends at is she/isn't she a feminist, I don't think it's…

I think what she is trying to say is that the process of reporting a fraternity for hazing and the process that is gone through to punish (or not punish) a fraternity for said hazing is obscure and obtuse in a way that is similar to the process of reporting sexual assault, and the crime of sexual assault being…

Actually it doesn't come from that, either, that's just a twist to it that shopkeepers gave to it in order to make it seem less awful. It originated in the 50s to refer to the day after Thanksgiving when people would call in "sick" in order to have a longer weekend. Then in the 60s Philly police used it to refer to…

That is the exact opposite of my iPhone, which believes that every word that I'm trying to type is secretly "sex." Especially "sec." I cannot count the number of times I have accidentally told friends, "Hold on, I'll be there in just a sex."

The idealization and sexualization of bodies is a problem for both genders in games and comics. But they're problematic in different ways, that have a lot to do with power structures. Take superheroes for example: men are sexualized as images of power that men (or women) want to be— strong, muscular, etc. This can be…

Yay!

As a state, Wyoming is very particular about your "authenticity." If you lived in the state for less than ten years, you're a carpetbagger. If you left and come back (as I have before) you essentially have to prove that you haven't "lost your way" in the non-Wyoming world.

Here! (Well, technically from Wyoming and temporarily transplanted, but I'm chomping on popcorn from afar).

There's still a difference between your own experiences with social alienation and a belief that women are incapable of liking the same things as you. I'm not dismissing your experiences, but rather relating to them. As a young woman, I went through the exact same process of changing from an extrovert to an introvert…

That's like the argument that we shouldn't have feminism if we're arguing for equal rights. There's always going to be a space in between inequality and perfect equality where those who have been marginalized have to carve out a niche for themselves with some kind of identifying label. We have feminism because we have…

Wow. It's like you stared into my very soul, and have discovered me for the fraud that I am. Wait, no. It's like you've never considered that women are people, and that women have a history of being excluded from traditionally male fields, and that defensive men who have otherwise traditionally been marginalized (I'm…

It's not just about the condoms, though that's what everyone is focusing on. It's also about spreading knowledge regarding sexual health. A lot of the students at BC have come from Catholic high schools, conservative parents, etc. They've made it to college without ever getting a "sex talk," and they're not getting it…

There were multiple Valentine's Days in school when I was the girl chosen by the popular guys to ask out on a dare. They'd buy me the lollipops that were sold by various clubs, scrawl something about liking me, and hand them to me, then stand around expecting me to fall all over myself as I basked in their…