Not just that, but it seems they changed something about her wrist and then forgot to properly reattach the hand.

I don't understand the 'I got spanked, but I turned out fine, so spanking is not a problem!' argument. If I were to say 'I was born to a smoking mother, but I turned out fine!' (which is true) would you apply the same argument?

I didn't know anything about it, but the parallels between this and the Dutch Pink Ribbon organization are staggering. Not so much the salaries - as far as I know - but very much the spending all the money on 'raising awareness' through elaborate gala's and activities that put real breast cancer patients off- instead…

I'd like to do some skewering myself right now, so...

I read through this whole thread and I think I'm a bit in love with you. Do you mind? :)

Thanks for this. This whole debate (not just here, locally too) sorely lacks voices of people with actual experience and insight. I don't have it, but what you say makes only too much sense.

I'm Dutch too. Just for my information, are you?

One can attack these laws and religiously based misogyny at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive. At all.

Niqabs are a problem in the Netherlands? I think I've seen one once, maybe twice, while I live in one of the major cities in the country and work in the capital. What is the problem exactly? And whose problem is it?

We're being hijacked. Few people actually believe for one damn second that this has anything to do with the liberation of muslim women, but when you try to argue that your hands are bound. "What, you mean it isn't bad when women are forced to hide from the world?" Anyone who cares to fight women's oppression just…

Agreed. It's an economic thing, isn't it? When girls need dowries to get married while boys have a right to receive money upon getting married, it's easy to see where it all goes wrong. The cause of it lies in traditional gender discrimination - women not being able/allowed to support themselves - and the effect,…

Thanks for that! Mmm...

That ep was perfect, from Buffy's initial reactions to Dawn - soundless - and Willow and... oh.

I thought exactly the same thing. It's pretty much the starred episodes of this site [www.criticallytouched.com] the 'ditzy blonde usually murdered in an alleyway' trope subversion was Joss Whedon's oft-stated reason for creating Buffy. It's far from an original observation.

I think you're on to something in your first paragraph.

And don't even try for decent yet elegant flat ones that aren't ballerinas or sneakers.

Calves aside, I fear that over 15 years walking in heels that get higher all the time have well and truly fucked up the second joint of my big toe, you know, the one that attaches toe to foot. It hurts now even when I'm going barefoot. I severely cut down on the hours in heels and the height of them, but it feels like…

You're not wrong, I think.

Thanks for that info! I had absolutely no idea and was kind of stunned by the stats.

In the Betty/Peggy get-up, I look like a little girl. If there's anything I'd like to avoid at all cost...