THANK YOU. What about the weird fundamentalist cults right here in the US where teenage girls are basically brood mares? Why don't we harp on those religious sects continuously?

That's preposterous. Anyone who makes broad statements about the lifestyle of "Muslim women" that would encompass everyone from rural Somalia to Kuala Lumpur to London doesn't know the first thing about Islam or women. If you think that 1 billion people can be reduced to an undifferentiated monolith, we can't have a…

Don't you think that's a massive generalization? The things you're talking about are awful, but they are also regional and not exclusive to Muslims by any means.

I also believe that a lot of white women need saving too, mostly from blatant ignorance, but I digress.

Get them to help what? Muslim women can think for themselves and make their own choices. Maybe you haven't been listening, but Muslim women don't want to be "saved". They want to be treated like equals, both in their own culture, and by women like you who think that the parts of their culture they choose to embrace…

Lol White women to the rescue, I guess then!

*Transposes sentiments to western women trying to "save" Muslim women from their oppression*

I'm of two minds about it. On one hand, I cringe at all the rhetoric about women as shy, passive, the ones in charge of caring for children and the elderly, and so on.

I really like what they did with playgrounds- making more and more varied sports' spaces. It always has bothered me how if there is one field/ basketball court, it gets commandeered by boys or young men. I remember playing with my daughter and some other toddlers with a basketball, and these teenage boys just started…

You could argue that gender mainstreaming could encourage men to participate in some of these stereotypically female activities (like running errands related to caring for children or other family members) by making them less annoying to do.

In my humble opinion, I think Trish Summerville has done a far better job with the costumes than Judianna Makovsky did in the first movie.

This. I wouldn't wanna live in, say, Victorian England, but I can still treasure the fuck out of a beautifully accurate bustle or a modernized version of that aesthetic. You may fully understand what the Capitol represented and still love ridiculous, ostentatious garb.

I love how the men in the capitol aren't any less ostentatious.

I never thought of this before, but is anyone else worried that this book tour might bring out some in-the-flesh MRA trolls?

Not surprised. Many conservative groups seem to strive for the most juvenile arguments ever. It usually goes like this:

I can not laugh hard enough at this or I will start crying.

I'm an engineer and I find this opinion to be hilariously stupid, FTR.

At 30 I can tell you: very few.

I'm sorry, you don't have a very high opinion of the liberal arts? Because literature and arts and languages and mathematics and science and philosophy and history are just so pointless?

Yep. I suspect a lot of "Leaning In" comes from this feeling that it's "rebellious" to not want it all, and that maybe we really are meant to be in the home if we can't all be CEOs. I get down on myself constantly because, at 25, I'm not in my dream career. And for months and months I was beating myself up over it,…