There is no such thing as an ethical breeder. The world is overflowing with suffering and unloved dogs and cats, most of whom are loving animals and beautiful in their own right. Breeders are racists, plain and simple, and over-breeding has filled this world with fragile designer dogs, to the point that people think…

Yes, the kitten herself is adorable, but she is the victim of heartless and brutal genetic experimentation. Why do people do this to animals? It always comes with health problems. Anyone who purposefully gets two domestic animals to reproduce is should have all their animals taken away, and anyone who does it to…

Selfies, just like food, sex, exercise, fashion, pets, drug use, and nearly every other human activity, are not the same thing to every person. Every one of them has the capacity to be dangerous and self-destructive, or to be positive and useful.

I definitely want one every time. More would be better.

I love this! Why can you throw the word for male genitalia around in a ton of different forms, but the word for our junk is too deadly taboo to say? This is great on every level.

As a scholar of ancient Greek and Latin, I can tell you that this is a very stupid position to take. Every word, even the most commonplace, has many different meanings, and when non-native speakers are trying to understand things, they often need to see a whole range of meanings before they find the one that fits. …

Is no one else freaked out by the age difference? 23 and 52? For BDSM? Some degree of age difference is fine, but I've never seen one that big that was healthy.

I just can't buy the argument that kids pick these things up from the culture; if that were true, why would any kid have issues with their gender identity? Surely they would just soak up all those gender messages and get "fixed", right? I was born with an obsession with princessiness, and a hatred of all things…

I am really looking forward to seeing "Twelve Years a Slave" and I think it has the potential to be a deeply introspective moment for American society. In order for that to happen, though, thoughtful and caring people like Jezebel readers need to watch it, and then, instead of dissecting out the horribleness that we…

I'm sorry, but those pix do nothing to convince me that that guy raised a squirrel. I see a lot of pix over a few days of a miserable and unhealthy looking baby squirrel who never gets any bigger, and then an undated photo of an adult squirrel. I'm not going to fawn over a guy who very well may have just carted…

"And it's like they never let you watch women fall down."

I'm teaching an intro writing course at a women's college right now, and my guess is that yes, many of these young women will come out of college with lower self-esteem than they have now, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Most of them have come to college with an inflated idea of their academic potential. I…

I'm a tenured professor, and this guy is an embarrassment to us all. Everyone knows we all just teach what we like; what you really like is what you are equipped to talk about, and what you can do justice to (unless you are teaching departmental basic courses with a required reading list). I'm a classics professor…

You basically can't win with doctors. I came down with MS. I got sick, with fatigue, dizziness, episodes of i, muscle spasms, everything. I went to a neurologist who told me I was fine. I went to my GP, who sent me to an ENT, who freaked out and ordered the MRI the neurologist should have ordered. It showed a…

Why don't we at least stop breeding them until the shelters aren't full of unloved ones and there aren't thousands of them sitting uncared for in the homes of kids who no longer want them and don't pay attention to them? We have a long damn way to go before they die out. Rabbit breeding should stop until the only…

Let's say we stop breeding until the shelters aren't full of loving, healthy beautiful dogs who have to be killed because people only want specialized inbreds with fancy pedigrees and genetic disorders? If we can get to that point, then I would be willing to re-open the breeding question.

The other thing you can do is eat really healthy and exercise all the time. In my 20's and early 30's, before going vegan and exercising all the time, I had bad skin tone (grey and tired-looking) and looked puffy, and I needed to style my hair to flatter my face, and I looked bad in the mornings. Now at 44, I eat…

I totally agree with you. There is nothing touching or heartwarming about stuff like that. Rabbit breeders (or anyone who causes two animals of any non-endangered species to reproduce) are jerks. People who make animals do things for reasons unrelated to the animals' own safety and well-being are losers. Animals…

I was 15 when I started sleeping with my boyfriend (same age). My parents let him sleep at my house, and me sleep at his house, and they were always nice to him. It worked out perfectly: we didn't have to sneak around, birth control was easy to keep on hand, etc., etc. Time we might have invested in partying or…

"Bernie knows just what to do/Bernie lays it on the line/Bernie says we sue, we sue/Bernie says we sign...we sign."