Eeeeeeeexactly. Calling him the saviour implies YA was on its downfall, and it absolutely wasn't when The Fault In Our Stars came out - in fact, quite the opposite. Sales had never been higher.

This is what pisses me off about the way YA is treated. It's a genre written mostly by women, mostly about women, and mostly for women. And yet, who's the most successful YA author? John Green, hailed as the "saviour" of YA. It didn't need to be saved. It just ~was in the eyes of the critics because "oh my god,…

I will take this opportunity to point out that Samantha was the only one who actually saved the fucking day.

What do you MEAN, the Samantha of the franchise? Surely you're not referring to Samantha Parkington of the American Girls collection.

Both seasons of Breaking Pointe, a reality show about Ballet West, are on Hulu Plus.

I agree. I think that this doesn't bother me because it was included as a part of dance styles in general - she recognized that hip-hop is a legitimate dance style and gave it no more disdain than any of the other ones. And if the point was that she doesn't fit in there, then is she really appropriating?

I am pretty certain there were white women in the mix anyway. I thought it was a cute song, throwaway pop, sure, but still cute. She represented all kinds of dance, didn't seem to be "appropriating" any of it, but rather was just having fun traveling through all the styles. She clearly wasn't in earnest as a hip hop…

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

Taylor usually announces her album title and the first single during a livestream, so all the clues say that it's going to be August 18th at 5 on Yahoo.

We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together (After You Kept Me In A Sex Dungeon And Chris Meloni Couldn't Find Me)

This book had such a formative impact on my elementary school brain. PLEASE BE GOOD.

this is what i hate. i'm an active mormon but fairly heterodox in a lot of my thoughts on the faith. kate kelly is being accused of damaging people's faith and leading them away from the church. from where i'm standing this action by the church is doing a hell of a lot more of that than kate kelly ever did. i know…

As an agnostic who dislikes organized religion, it's easy for me to react with, "Don't like the core values of your religion? Leave." But it reminds of me radical feminist nuns like Sister Simone Campbell who, to me, are complete bad asses for challenging a patriarchal religious system while also saying "but I also…

I hope the Feminist Mormon Housewives prevail

i am really bothered by the percentage...percent of what? it makes no sense...

Thank you for posting this. I stopped attending church a while back, but I still have a great love for my faith and the gospel, and I think that for those who feel like they can and want to stay, it is worth fighting for.

Well, I hope for your sake, and Kate Kelly' sake, that the Church does become more progressive. For an atheist and a feminist, it is a double-barrel of maddening to have women shut out of leadership in a church because of God and their gender.

Yeah, because when I participate in what a thread that has an ongoing conversation I am simply "white-knighting" her.....I provided a thoughtful, articulate, constructive response.....you could have left at requesting me to leave it between the two of you....

I'm supporting you! Personally, I've chosen not to participate in the church but I've learned to be supportive of my LDS sisters. I admire you and do not believe Mormon Feminist is a contradiction. "Sisters in Spirit", a collection of feminist essays by LDS women, was my first introduction to feminism. http://www.amazo…