Let’s review this conversation:

If I knew what culture you were talking about and had lived there or otherwise had a deep understanding of the culture, I would feel comfortable criticizing it. I'm not going to condemn an entire group of people based on a random Internet comment.

I’m not going to pass judgment on your ex’s culture without knowing anything about it, but there’s a huge difference between someone who decides that adoption is not the right choice for their family and someone who mistreats or stigmatizes people who have been adopted. Fertility treatments create one set of…

I think you’re conflating two different issues here. That person you’re talking about sounds like a jerk, but it’s very possible to go through fertility issues without ranting about crackheads or prostitutes. A lot of people who are having fertility issues do find it frustrating that they can’t get pregnant when so…

If you think "military training" works best for your kids, then by all means use it. Make them do push-ups. Make them keep their rooms really clean and make their beds with hospital corners. Make them shine their shoes and go camping in the rain. Fine. But you know what we don't do in the U.S. military? We don't hit…

Wish you both the best!

I'm no expert, but I'm not sure why people are telling you to wait until he's five - there are a lot of early-intervention programs available for autism spectrum children who are younger than that. I'm not telling you what to do, but there are resources out there for children your son's age if you want to use them.

Unless it's a very small wedding, banning kids seems odd to me - I mean, a wedding is typically a family event, and kids are part of most people's families. We had kids at our wedding, including the evening-reception-with-open-bar part, and they were great - our flower girl was adorable and my husband's cousin's…

It's the role Matthew McConaughey was born to play.

There must be some seriously weird chemicals in the water where you live if the twelve-year-old boys look like Miley Cyrus.

Yes, she regrets being a girl because she wants to do stereotypically masculine things like becoming a jockey or a scientist, and she doesn't like "dances and dresses." She's not "ashamed of her femininity." She's annoyed about the restrictions that are being placed on her because of it. She doesn't mention "not being…

That's not what this little girl was saying at all. She isn't "ashamed of her femininity" - she's upset that, because she is female, she's being prevented from doing all the un-feminine things she actually wants to do.

Telling me to fuck off, however, is definitely a calm and logical way to have an important discussion. Also, no, in fact, I don't think that a post about racism against people of South Asian descent is the best place for a discussion of the terrible, terrible racism that white people experience. You're changing the…

Nobody said you should feel guilty and nobody said anything about trying to be cool. And sure, feel free to be EXTREMELY UPSET about this .gif of a white guy dancing. No one is stopping you.

That's nice, but in your original comment you complained about "being associated with two-stepping yokels," not about discrimination against rural working-class people.

I'm Ashkenazi Jewish too, and yes, we are part of the "white hegemony" too. We benefit from having white skin and Caucasian-looking faces just like all other ethnicities of white people.

Having known a few sexist creeps who happen to have daughters, I'm pretty sure this is going to put zero dents in his sexist creepery. He'll probably just be one of those fathers who feels the need to be incredibly controlling of his daughters because he "knows what men are like."

Fair point, but maybe it's still positive to depict women who are average-sized or slightly bigger than average as cute and sexy? Idealizing extremely thin women probably hurts fat women the most, but it also hurts average-sized women who are constantly made to feel that they don't measure up.

Agreed! I think the problem here is the gender segregation, not the idea of a workshop on cosmetics in general. As feminists, I think we need to be careful that we aren't giving our daughters the message that there's something inherently less cool about "girl stuff."

Glowing in the dark for science > sparkling for science.