That’s not hipster racism, she’s calling attention to the fact that it’s fucked up when people do that, through comedy, which is a much better way to turn people around on their thinking instead of berating them. SHE is the butt of the joke for being the racist person in the scene, not the black people for being…

I've noticed quality in clothing falling off across the board in like the past fifteen years. In high school I could wear a fitted navy blue tee without a tank; now I cannot wear even a dark tee without something under it unless I want you to be able to describe the pattern on my bra in detail. It's genius in that the…

Seriously! I hate shopping online (because I’m too lazy to send things back if they don’t fit, and also shipping to or in Canada is a nightmare compared to the States), and if I’m buying, say, a $200 blazer, I want to know how it looks BEFORE I pay for it. But now when you go into a store, it’s, like, fifteen pairs of…

I’ve worked in retail finance and the politics that go into these quarterly investor meetings are really weird. They’ll always focus on the optimistic, band-aid solutions to falling sales figures because this information goes to the general public and they don’t want to come across as a failing brand. Hopefully they…

I just looked at their website and saw a cotton romper that required dry cleaning for $455. How are they still in business?

It’s crazy when doubling the price of literally everything you sell while halving the quality doesn’t result in higher sales.

Every time I see one of those I’m not a feminist posts, I get so, so angry.

IIRC, she wrote it as her “entry” into a challenge between herself, her husband, and Byron. I feel smug for her that most people don’t know shit about the stories Byron and Percy Shelley wrote there, but everyone knows Frankenstein. The fact she wasn’t even 20 when she wrote it makes it even better.

I still have my very used copy of A Vindication of the Rights of Women from high school. Mary Wollstonecraft was a friend of the Quakers, and most of us teen aged feminists at my Quaker boarding school were quite taken with her, and she was taught a lot in our school. This is going on my reading list!

I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know any of these relationships! So Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter was Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley’s husband was the poet Shelley?

My only tattoo is a cameo style portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft. It’s on my right shoulder blade. It’s quite big, but that tattoo artist it had to be if we wanted to keep the detail. It throws a lot of people I think, it doesn’t seem in line with my personality to have one really big tattoo of a proto-feminist writer…

The hyena-in-petticoats thing is actually beautifully apt and we need to reclaim that for her. Fierce, predatory, highly intelligent matriarichal clans where the phallus-having females regularly beat up the scavenging lions that try to steal their prey? What’s not to like?

Yes! And she was a TEENAGE GIRL at the time, too.

There’s totally complacency in women’s rights - I have so many conversations with people who think feminism should just be called egalitarianism because women have it so great now. I like to think it’s better than it’s been in the past, but it’s by no means an even playing field.

Oh. My. God. Yes!

It’s like, my favorite thing in the world to inform geeky dudes that the first science fiction novel was written by a woman and what do you mean you haven’t read Frankenstein - you call yourself a scifi fan?!

I think it’s really important to “excavate” some of the Enlightenment and pre-Enlightenment-era feminists, and Gordon’s totally right that we’ve COMPLETELY lost track of some of them precisely because of the Victorian-era backslide into social conservatism that followed the revolutions of the Enlightenment.

Thank you for publishing things that appeal to feminist lit-nerds. Really geeked out on this one... the book is on my list.

This is awesome. It must have been so fun to talk to Gordon! I think it’s amazing that she didn’t know that Mary Shelley was Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter but then got so interested in it that she wrote a book. I have always found both Wollstonecraft and Shelley to be interesting figures, and for Shelley to have…

Pure speculation on my part, but.