You and 213+ other people must not have bothered to read the article. Always a bad sign when you're defending one form of barbaric activity citing another, BTW.

Kudos for putting this much better than I could have managed.

transgendered person

Holy shit — you're joking, right? If I misgender someone or call someone "transgendered," that's on me. If you don't understand Title VII and its terminology, that's on you.

Flat wages do work in virtually every country other than the US, so I see no reasonable argument to indicate they wouldn't work here.

That and the referee's obvious favoritism has me rooting for Germany and Argentina of all places in the semis (assuming Netherlands gets through.)

No joke. This guy has accomplished an impressive feat — getting himself banned from the bodybuilding.com forum. Anyone who manages to be offensive enough to pull that one off has incredible prowess.

A few months back he had a ludicrous post about the "mating habits" of PoC that sounded like it was pre-1900s. Why people continue to pull him out of the grey baffles me completely.

She lives in an ultra-conservative county in Utah that is 98% LDS, and she called something relatively mild (I get that it is problematic in terms of objectification) "pornography." Religion is involved.

And already this thread (and similar threads for this piece) have proven what you said about anti-sex work feminists throwing out generalizations and fighting straw men to be true, several times.

Serious question — don't you think her child will have access to much worse in other teen-oriented pop culture stores? My teen years occurred during the height of the CD craze, and I can tell you there were album covers in store displays that were significantly worse than this, and I have seen video game covers far…

Please — that's a clear insult to Dworkin. However controversial her viewpoints were, and however much I disagree with a subset of them, she spawned more genius and original thought in a single day of her life than the surviving social elites that rode her coattails produced in their entire lifetime.

And one more thing (in general, not necessarily to the OP) — if anyone thinks this person is genuinely interested in female autonomy and sexual agency, they need to study up on the LDS faith.

I was born and raised in Utah. Orem is 98% LDS, and probably one of the most conservative communities in the entire nation. We're all free to have our support/objections to her behavior, but let's not pretend she wasn't a religious crusader intent on making a statement about what she feels to be, in her own words…

The headline is not great. I would think better would have been "Ultra-Orthodox Jews Furious at Natalie Portman Filming in Israeli City" or "Ultra-Orthodox Jews Furious at Natalie Portman for Existing."

There is a segment of the conservative faction (probably even outside the conservative faction) in Israel commonly referred to as Ultra-Orthodox. Among other things, they object to women being doctors, and opposed the presence of female OB/GYNs at a physicians' conference a few years back. A "trollop" like Natalie…

Hey — there's that South American paradise for Brazilian "trannies" that Suzanne Moore pointed out for the rest of us. What easy lives they must live!

I totally get where you are coming from, and appreciate your consideration for learning the correct terminology. It's definitely the case that a subset of transgender people occasionally "attack" preemptively because they feel like they've been placed in a very small, very unsafe corner by the rest of society, and…

Eh — her issues were less with the questions* and more with how the interview was presented on TV, complete with salacious graphics and misinformation (ex: "Was a boy until Age 18").

When it's absolutely necessary (and it bears repeating that trans women don't need to be reminded they are trans women every other sentence), "Male assigned at birth" (MAAB) is the most common terminology, and one with which Mock has said she is comfortable.