It's very rare for me, too. I only feel this if I dislike that person, and sometimes that dislike isn't consciously acknowledged until I feel this feeling and realize that I really don't like them very much. It also drives me crazy when I think about someone who is just an horrible human being whom "karma" has never…

Thank you for saying this.

This thread caused me a weird moment with a friend of mine who invited me to a black hoodie protest. He's black. I asked him if I shouldn't wear a hoodie because I'm not black. He looked at me like I had just said the craziest thing ever. Yes, he thinks I should wear a hoodie, too. It makes me wonder if the woman…

I am not black but a black friend invited me to go to a black hoodie protest and said to wear one. How do you know that the woman in the photo above being criticized wasn't invited to wear one at a hoodie protest, too? She might have been told that she should wear one, like I was.

I agree with you that it is important…

I have always thought that Rihanna was gorgeous. She pulls it off!

Wait- did you say Anne Hathaway bleached her hair? How did I miss that?

I think we have a problem within our culture with this, but every time I bring it up, nobody responds and my comments get dismissed and are ignored. I think to be stronger as a group and as a movement, we could learn to be more supportive and encouraging so that people aren't afraid that they'll be flamed for engaging…

As soon as you said it, I wondered if you were talking about Nashville. A few of my deep south friends moved there, but I don't know if they moved into that particular community in particular. I've been told there's a healthy liberal community there. It sounds nice.

And now I'm trying to guess where that might be! I bet you know what I'm talking about then about the kinds of southerners people who aren't from the south don't really believe exist? For one example, people who fit the stereotype of "redneck" by with their accents/hairstyle/clothes but who are actually closer to 60s…

Most of the people from high school that I remained friends with moved away from the South after high school, first going away for college, then settling elsewhere. I'm not close to any of them. There are no get-togethers. I made a new group of friends that reflected my own political beliefs in my late teens and early…

So am I! I also have pastor friends! FROM HIGH SCHOOL! The friends flooding my newsfeed with anti-religion posts? They're in the Deep South! Now, I realize that it's just a being reactionary to a culture that is majority Christian, but that doesn't make it any less obnoxious. I also have gay friends on Facebook who…

I want to like this a thousand times!

Katie, I don't know if you'll read this, but thank you for the reminder that other people are sensitive to criticism like myself, even writers brave enough to write for Jezebel.* I suppose because of my self-esteem and insecurities, I thought that I was uniquely vulnerable to those feelings, which has probably made me…

Yes, and the irony is that people who say things like that are more likely to defend someone white who does do something racist by claiming that "people of other races are racist, too! A black guy called me a cracker three years ago!" It's an argument of convenience. The target being defended is not racist because…

Maybe it's the constant flooding of my Facebook newsfeed with condescending and mean anti-religion posts by friends that I otherwise enjoy, but I thought it was spot on. I don't consider myself to be an atheist dick and I wasn't offended or felt like the article was addressed towards me but towards them. That kind of…

I also loved both of those!

It's for this reason that I agree with Lindy regarding my own atheism. I consider it a belief. If it was logical, I would have to be an agnostic, but I'm not. I don't believe in God.

I think that this article was called for, and so is that one. Everyone on either side of any coin like this needs guidelines and reminders about "how not to be a dick." For this publication, addressing atheists would be more relevant because I'm sure that there is a large faction of them who read Jezebel.

I'm really…

You are so wise and have provided an excellent example of how to talk about politics, feminist issues, and handle uncivil discourse. I hope that others will follow in your footsteps towards being civil in online discourse and fostering communication.

Thank you for saying that. I've been attacked a few times trying to be an ally to black people and gay people, and it genuinely hurts whenever I am attacked because these are issues that I care very deeply about down to my soul. Those experiences do make me scared to speak up and even try because they hurt so badly…

Trader Joe's has a great one. http://www.amazon.com/Trader-Joes-Sp…