Can somebody please get these poor girls into a union already?

Seriously. I used to think that "I am rubber and you are glue" was a truly clever rhetorical strategy, but then I finished third grade and moved onto other things.

I guess Jezebel went to those dudes' houses and held a gun to their heads until they posted racist BS on the internet?

Is he buried in Colombia, SC? I saw that name on a tombstone there and was all like OMG WTF BBQ.

Agreed. I think there's some confusion about "unrealistic standards" vs. "real bodies." Expecting all women to look like
Angelina Jolie (before or after pregnancy) is unrealistic and damaging. But that doesn't mean that Jolie's body isn't "real."

Um, actually, the facts in this case are pretty black-and-white, even if what happened wasn't quite as gruesome as what was originally reported.

People worth dealing with treat other people with respect regardless of whether they're modestly dressed and regardless of their gender. For me, if I noticed that a guy tended to be disrespectful to women who were dressed in a revealing way, that would be a HUGE red flag, and I definitely wouldn't want my…

I got cat-called constantly as a young teenage girl (I mean like 12-14), even though most of the time I was wearing baggy jeans and t-shirts because I was uncomfortable wearing more feminine clothes. I understand your desire to protect your daughter, because the cat-calling I went through was scary and disrespectful…

I was the right age to be part of Britney's target audience back when she was a sweet teenage pop star, and I watched her melt down in public. Likewise with Lindsay Lohan. And yet my generation of young women mostly turned out just fine. As far as I can tell, Miley isn't doing anything nearly as self-destructive as…

I agree, but I would cut these girls some slack for being 14. Still, good on the LW for calling them out.

A) For a person who's completely over something, you sure spend a lot of time complaining about it.

But that was more than ten years ago! By your own logic, you should be over it by now. Just like we should be over the 2,977 deaths that are apparently a less serious issue than a late thank-you card.

I sympathize. I'm white and my husband is ethnically half-Korean, half-Chinese, and we've gotten every kind of weird comment - ranging from old Korean men on the subway who feel sorry for my husband's mother because I'm white, to the coworker who told me he didn't come say hi at lunch "because I was afraid that Asian…

Wait, so you think it's stupid that Americans haven't "gotten over" the deaths of almost 3,000 people, but you're still butthurt about a late thank-you card that happened equally long ago?

Dawkins, like most atheists, recognizes that there is a slight possibility that God (or gods) exist/s. He just thinks it's highly unlikely, based on the evidence he's seen. That is not a religious belief.

So if sexy clothes = no self-respect, what does that say about women who (GASP!) wear different sorts of clothes in different contexts? If I wear a conservative suit to work and then change into a latex bikini before I go out in the evening, does that mean my self-respect was high all day and then mysteriously plunged…

Ugh, I know what you mean. I'm in the military and my frizzy, wavy Jewish hair was ALWAYS considered to be in violation of the military's policy against "unkempt" hair until I finally gave in and got a pixie cut a few years ago. I love my short hair, but still - grrrr. Non-white women get even more crap about their…

All the way to 28? I'm 28 and currently deployed in Afghanistan. And to think, I had no idea that, in addition to missing Christmas and birthdays and my wedding anniversary, I also missed out on my last summer of cellulite-free booty-short wearing! OH THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE.

Oh, absolutely. I don't think people should go into debt for anything that isn't either a necessity or something that will increase in value (like real estate). But somehow weddings get singled out for hatred on this site, even though plenty of people also take on unsupportable and ridiculous amounts of debt when they…

I don't know what happened, and it is possible that she could have been drunk enough to black out and yet still have appeared conscious and consenting to the guys who had sex with her, especially since they were also drunk. It's going to be a difficult case to try for that reason. That said, your original suggestion…