A male executive can step into an already successful company and make it slightly more so, and people act like he's the Second Coming. But a woman like Oprah or Martha Stewart builds an empire from nothing, and people act like she got lucky or that she's a bitch for doing so or that it's just a passing fancy. Mmm hmm.

I am all for TV programs that portray minorities in a positive light, something that is seriously lacking in the mainstream media. But seriously, you're not going to find that with ANY story that Tyler Perry writes. I read a Jezebel article about his last movie really opened my eyes to his disdain for sexually…

"Franks' sponsored Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"

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I suspect it refers to the theory that "you'll feel differently once you're holding your baby in your arms". The rose-tinted fantasy that no women ever, anywhere could possibly regret (or feel ambivalent about) giving birth.

I thought this tank top had a moment in the late 90's, am I wrong? I remember having a couple myself. I think I wore it with overall shorts, glitter, and those long side-bang things.

Please. The gays have been rocking that thing for a couple of years here in Fort Lauderdale.

I fucking love him for this.

Awwe, c'mon, those ANTM girls were just being bitches! Fabio seems like an A-OK dude to me!

My moms friend C is a writer of supernatural romance novels (I KNOW!) and one of her bathrooms in her sort of ridiculous Texas house is wallpapered in classic romance covers. John Waters would cherish this woman.

You're approaching this from the angle that everyone who asks a question is actually asking in good faith. I am sorry to pop your optimism bubble, but they aren't.

This is a great response!! I love it. It reminds me of what I tell libertarians who yell "it's just SIMPLE SUPPLY AND DEMAND" at me when I get into economics arguments with them. I'm like "You are aware there are more advanced classes than econ 101 available? Perhaps, since you're so interested in the topic, you…

I'm a college professor so I started answering: I get paid a lot of money to explain these and other important concepts and facts to college students. If you really want to know, go to college and enroll in some classes. It would be good for you.

Hmmm. I don't know if the POINT is whether or not we are obliged to educate people who are willfully turning their back on the knowledge that is easily evident and accessible. The POINT, maybe, is that it is too easy to shut down any conversation by asking for citation again and again like a two year old asking "why…

Information is out there for people who are genuinely interested in the topic. When I was starting out, I asked close friends who were far better read than I to recommend books or blogs; I Googled for resources; I started taking in more media, like documentaries and video series talking about this subject in which I…

Educating through conversation is one thing. Talking to the brick wall that is MRA's is something I will leave for you to do then if ya want. I personally think they can go choke.

right but, what if they just googled it though? sometimes i have to google stuff. they should have the same google i have, yeah?

She was not saying there is anything wrong with people staying home. She said there is something wrong with asking working women WHY they are not staying home and how that will affect their children,when the same question is not asked of men. That was it.

I feel like Lindy was pretty clearly directing this toward the mouth-breathers who use this tactic as a method of undermining feminist interventions into structural inequality, not all straight white men in general. There is no need to take it personally if the shoe doesn't fit, you know?

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