Ah. I guess that's why it's called Saturday Night Social. Somehow I never noticed this before. Thank you.

Thanks for correcting me. I'll have to look some of this up. Obviously I knew about the Japanese American concentration camps! I suppose I was thinking more of the popular press. Even today, my Japanese students are surprised at how little censorship of American comic books there was during the war. Censorship in…

I didn't mean to imply that, and I'm sorry I gave that impression.

Ummm...Is it me, or do the comments here have absolutely nothing to with Rupert Grint being a sexual freak? Is this a bug? Am I seeing comments for a completely different article?

And yet, ironically, the right of evil scumbags to say what they want was one of the precious rights your grandfather (and my father) fought for. And that's what made them so remarkable. There was very little government censorship of speech during World War II. Even American Nazi sympathizers (though carefully…

I don't know. I'm an American born and raised who lives in Japan, another country that is very reluctant to restrict speech. I totally understand why Europeans feel that certain types of speech or expression should be reigned in, but that approach is not problem-free, as the bans on Muslim women wearing veils in…

Every. Last. One of them.

Hah!

Ugh.

Am I the only one who read Woolf's not-very-well-thought-out essay and wondered, "Has she really recovered?" Because she does not sound like someone who has made a full recovery from an eating disorder and learned the lesson's about society's demands for thinness (particularly from women). As other commenters who have…

Doh! Apologies. I completely missed that link of yours. I suppose great minds think alike, huh? Okay. I see what you mean now. Yeah, it's true that the default feminist position on abortion is that the government has no right to tell a woman what to do with her body ever, period. And *in principle* that's my own…

Wow. If I heard this on the radio, I would just assume it was a cover by a male singer or a woman with a Cher-like deep voice. And then listening to the original right after hearing this version, the original actually sounds like a speeded up version!

Hmm. Do you have some specific poll results in mind when you say the abortion issue hurts feminists with "moderates"? Here's a whole bunch of fairly recent poll results on opinions about abortion, and I don't really see that trend in there. Also, just between you, me and the Internet, I have always had the impression…

Thanks for the serious response. I suppose it's a given that when a movement flounders, the people in that movement need to look within and talk about what they could do differently, rather than simply laying the blame on others. As for the association of feminism with liberalism, well, I'm not sure what feminists…

You offered a more kind and generous response than I would have. I'm really losing my patience with the men's comments here. If they were obviously MRA trolls, I could just dismiss them, but I get the impression that these guys imagine themselves to be progressive and supportive of women's rights. How about instead of…

Ditto. I was surprised. It almost made me think the half of humanity I unfortunately share a Y chromosome with might not be completely hopeless. Then I read the comments by male trolls here and immediately reverted to my default pessimism.

Straw-man (-woman) argument. Nobody is asking for paid maternity leave without paid paternity leave. What we're saying is that *at a minimum* women should get paid maternity leave. As the linked graph shows, almost half the countries that have laws mandating paid maternity leave also mandate paid paternity leave. And…

Maybe you could try to actually learn something about feminism before telling the members of a feminist site that you don't like feminism because it starts with "femi." The Bueller-ism on "isms" is cute enough if you're a white, male, middle-class, high-school senior leading a life of privilege most of humanity can…

She almost certainly has Unitarianism confused with the Unification Church, no? This is a weird thing that happens sometimes. Two groups that are polar opposites, and yet are mistaken for each other because they share a "Uni" at the front of their name.

We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools.