Kind of a hard thing to do when part of activism is getting others to join you. I continually post and talk to my friends about ways they can get involved with this cause, either giving to Tamir Rice's family fund, or joining a walk out with me or attending a rally.... how do you distinguish that from…

Cynicism is exhausting, isn't it? Always trying to work out the angle, the motivation, how someone is not being sincere but really out to get you or actually mean or base in some way. Always assuming that a "good" white person is just a self-aggrandizer. Always trying to figure out if a rude person in an airport or…

Does SNL think that the Ferguson cop's name is Darryl Wilson? Did someone misspeak in the part of the sketch with Franco? Seems as though he should have been Chef Darren to warrant the dude removing his name from the books and the hosts backing away in the horrified the way they were.

Yup. You nailed it. Went in with an agenda, came out with a stupid reactionary article. Jezebel in a nutshell these days. And I say that as one who used to love this place. Now it's just a repository for reactionary thinking and fashion/celeb/kardashian bullshit. I just hope that Jezebel's reputation for being a…

Wow, I knew outrage was easy, but I didn't think we would always start from there. Whatever you think about Swift's music (if you disdain anything that pop culture latches onto), you should at least know (as I know Jezebel does) of her industry smarts AND her reputation in the media which feminists should decry (a…

Agreed. I was so disappointed in this post. I came late to this video, just saw it for the first time today (same with the album) and I think it is great. She is tackling so many things here.... her own reputation about dating too many men (listen for the giggle in the song after that line), about cultural…

The answer to the birthday question when you live in the northeast is mid-late spring. Birthdays are best in HS, college and your early 20s, and everyone comes alive in the spring when snow has finally stopped, it gets warmer and midterms are over. My birthday is in mid-April and it was epic for many many years. 20…

We as a culture need to get over our Puritanism when it comes to sex. Most BABIES discover their genitals feel good, and the second hormones get into the picture, it's on. I was reading purloined Penthouse Letters at 11, figured out how to make myself orgasm at 12, and dealt with some shame about those things due to…

I could not love the idea of Lizzy Caplan and James Marsden dating more. Maybe they will fill the hole that Amy Poehler/Will Arnett's split left (and also Heidi and Seal).

Sorry, it's one of the most hideous ensembles I have ever seen. From top to bottom. I include hair and makeup in this assessment.

Yes, and where's the attempted rape charge? I hope that the reason it's not there is not because of either her employment or the fact that she is/was his girlfriend.

Where's the attempted rape charge?

Any time! See ya around the salt mines.

Agreed. And thanks for the well-reasoned and written reply. I align with everything you are saying. And truly I was not attempting to turn this into a feminist thing, or turn the conversation to women's rights. It was a potentially stupid way of simply pointing out the increasing role social media has in uniting…

And the officer in the photo released by Anonymous (Bryan Willman) *looks exactly* like the officer in a witness cell phone photo standing over the body of Mike Brown, completely uninjured and blase. The very same photo the Ferguson PD Chief came out on live TV and said *was absolutely not* the shooter. The lying,…

That's a fair and good point, thanks. I wasn't actually trying to leave white women blameless, nor conflate two issues. It was late, and I wasn't being clear. I was actually attempting more to social media bearing witness to cultural change, and having a role in giving voice to important movements against corrosive…

Yes, because all significant cultural change in history has happened peacefully over tea and cucumber sandwiches.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Breathless with anger and helplessness. Thanks for posting.

And let's not forget #yesallwomen which trended for 6 days. I hope massive uprising and change is in the wind for all those who reject these (hopefully) last awful gasps of white male power.

That photo made all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK is going on in our country? How are we not ALL rioting in the streets? I wish I knew what I could do aside from scream on Twitter at St Louis journalists who are "confirming" the officer was "injured" and credulously letting the…