Can we talk about how shit the phrase (Vanity Fair's) "portrait that launched a million dorm-room posters" is? The portrait may have "graced" a million dorm-room posters, or perhaps "launched" a million wet dreams, to speak a little more metaphorically, but "launched a million posters" WTF?

I get really frustrated in the kinds of conversation that happen here on Jezebel because a lot of valid opinions get shut down immediately for being "slut shaming" (a word I like even less than prudish or sex-negative). I feel like it should be reserved for situations where someone is actually criticizing someone…

Sure but are you a real doctor, or the fake kind?

I thought it said "baby robots" and I was like OMG SO CUUTE BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP!

THIS. I mean, if there was such a social stigma about being a "bad mother" at all, we'd probably have a whole lot fewer shit parents out there, right? I'm sure it was abundantly obvious to everyone around this family that their kids were getting crap parenting (whatever underlying social ills may have contributed to…

I'm sad too. Mandy turned out so interesting and watchable after epitomizing grotesque child sexuality in her first incarnation (yes, 15 year olds are children, I'm so hungry for the candy that your feeding me *vom* no, it's not slut shaming, because I'm not trying to make her feel bad about getting laid or liking…

I'm finding the part of that review that pitchfork left in ("It is a nice bit of backstory that makes sense in hindsight upon hearing their minimally arranged, moderately morose and maximally loud debut LP Further Out") more cut-worthy (and cringe-worthy) than the removed part! Look Pitchfork guy, most musicians…

I insisted a dude I was having sex on the first date with pull it out with his teeth since he was so adamant about having period sex. I totally wanted the sex with the dude (I wanted to marry him for about five minutes!), in case anyone is concerned about the status of my consent from that statement, I just had…

Oh give her a fucking break. She even said she loves it on other people but does not feel comfortable with it for herself. Owning your own preference is not slut shaming!

It's fine, you just want to make quips about "dad dick" and be all grossed out... if you read the linked article (not the interview with the sad girl, the linked Guardian article about GSA) you'd recognize that it's not about the dick of it all, it's about intimacy, and the shortage of socially acceptable ways for…

But see, it wouldn't be like that at all. My father died when I was young, so I never knew him as an adult, and I feel robbed and sad about what I've missed. If he could be magically back and we started to get to know each other as two adults, who weirdly enough have all these brain and personality and literary taste…

I've been re-reading my Austen thanks to enthusiastic discussion read here recently.

I bet this dress would be better received if it were being worn by someone you like more and think of as a daring fashionista or some shit. It's cool.

Pretty sure it's the "elite yelpers." When writing yelp reviews becomes an end unto itself - I'm trying to attain elite status! I want to be invited to the parties and free stuff! It's not longer a fun free-for-all of people who want to share for public service - it's basically self-serving. The members want elite…

The kinds of upgrades that franchisers enforces on the franchisees can be very expensive and put smaller franchisees out of business or force store closures. That's also sad for the little people. I heard about this over the course of doing work for some fast food franchisees. It was kind of funny, because at first I…

They also do manspreading, leering and sexual predation. As separating the sexes except for close relatives would affect both men and women in the same way, you couldn't really classify the move (which I believe is debunked elsewhere in the comments anyway, but let's just go with the story...) as in opposition to…

So rich people do tourism in poor county where they don't speak the language, proceed to criticizm service people for attempting to do their job and not speaking English well enough to properly argue with them ("we were very clearly Americans"), and persist with delusion that a seat in another section of the plane…

I would be pleased to find a gender segregating policy on Greyhound. Or every form of mass transit. You know, unless the guy is handsome and smells nice, obvi.

I also feel like the expectation of informed feminism from celebrities is unreasonable (implicit based on how mad people get when they open their mouth and something half baked spills out). These women are in the conformity business. Their whole goal is selling out (movie theaters, concert halls, whatever). They are…

There's a special place in hell for fortune cookies like that!