Jez,

I don't usually care about award shows, but Tatiana Maslany absolutely MUST win. #Tatianapocalypse of 2k14

If you loved the book but hated the ending, you really oughta read her earlier two books: Dark Places and Sharp Objects. Dark and addictive, just how I like things. :)

The discussion definitely has to be broader. Right now, our culture is such that we're more pressed for time (companies squeezing every last drop of productivity out of its employees), there's an entire industry dedicated to getting people to eat food that is over-processed and unhealthy, we're becoming more dependent…

That's part of the 'fatphobia' that Dodai was talking about. Some people are terrified of becoming fat so they look at somebody who is and can't help but place their own insecurities onto them.

The same reason that you see MRA groups and white pride groups - fear of losing privilege. For women that have bought the idea that they must be small above all in order to be valued, it must be terrifying to see larger women revelling in their bodies and infuriating to see one garnering admiration. After years of…

Quite honestly, I think some people are threatened by the notion that appearance, which they work really hard to get/maintain, is not everything. I think they feel threatened if a person simply does not care about being overweight or chooses not to spend hours in the gym or eat a restricted diet in order to get a…

Okay. Is the note the most tactful way to bring this issue up? No. But this article seems to imply that it is completely outside the realm of appropriate to bring up the problem. And I'm not sure I agree with that. Stinky kids wearing dirty clothes is potentially indicative of some problem at home. So what…

I respectfully disagree. I honestly don't (and never have) felt bad on either count because I don't think there is anything wrong with having an abortion. But that may just be me.

I never regretted mine, not for one tiny instant. And I have never once thought about how old my possibility would be, not ever, not even once before right this moment when I shuddered at the thought. You're definitely not alone.

I'll just leave this here. Sigh.

Yeah, I feel the same way when people are like, "Oh, you don't eat meat? We'll just get pepperoni on our half, then."

I try not be an annoying vegetarian. I never preach, I don't make a fuss, and I don't flip out at restaurants (though I will politely send something back if necessary). But seriously: Picking animal…

I think it is a mistake to assume most white women are culturally descended from slave owners. Attitudes between the races are much more complicated than fearing your man would lust after a black woman. I would rather look to a much more widespread cultural fear- that one's precious young white daughter would either…

If you mean this at all literally, you are getting carried away. Southern planter-class woman were never representative of American white women. I don't think this is even typical of the experience of planter-class women, whose husbands were usually more discrete and less obsessed. If you mean sexual jealousy as a…

KNOW HER GLORY AND BE AWED.

Wow, I couldn't disagree more. I mean I think the performances were tragically beautiful and obviously heartfelt but I also think it was wildly inappropriate and extremely creepily voyeuristic to put real people's obviously really intense grief on display for public consumption (not to mention profit) in this context.…

Oh, christ, THANK YOU. She was THE person who called out the Catholic Church long before the sexual abuse scandal——and it wrecked her career in the US. She never gets credit for that or for calling them out about the Magdalene Laundries, either. On top of which, her music ranges from brilliant to genius. Miley knows…

If someone co-opted my art to create something that I considered an abomination of the principles which guided my art, I'd speak up too. Sinead shaved her head to subvert the expectation that she'd sell herself sexually as a female artist only to, twenty years later, watch someone who claims to be inspired by her…

As an aside, to get through these comments with my sanity intact I've decided that everyone accusing Sinead of trying to piggyback on Miley for attention must be Miley's age. You can't know even two things about Sinead O'Connor and believe that.