What is up with the mermaid unitard / neck brace outfit? That is hideous.

Right? When I read the part about the "perfume section" I really lost the thread on how any person could be the wrong size for the store, unless they are a giant whose head keeps crashing into the ceiling and breaking the lights or something.

Naked yoga.

Really? It smacks of L.A. and the internet and Craigslist a lot more than "Persians," whatever you mean by that. (And I use the quotes in a normal way, not as satire of all of the above).

I think this article at Salon hits on a good point about the performance. http://www.salon.com/2013/08/26/mil…

I love the look in the eyes of the woman pictured above.

For me, as a young woman, I found the healthiest response to the deluge of negative media, advertising, whatever influences about women's looks and body image was to just tune it out entirely. I refuse to engage in a lot of conversations that to me derive from this form of oppression, and whenever I find myself…

It's very much in line with the way that men and women are advised about rape and sexual assault, too. Last January, Latoya at Racialicious wrote about an experiment she did comparing women's and men's magazines' advice about sex and gender relations. Cosmo has rape prevention articles in almost every issue. …

Tipping, when calculated as part of wages, as it is for most servers in restaurants in the U.S., is an awful, coercive, discriminatory, sexist, racist, and thoroughly appalling system that should be abolished. A waiter or waitress's livelihood should not depend on the capricious judgments of random diners. They…

My sister's boyfriend slept over all the time when she was in high school. My parents' rationale: A) Teenagers have sex; help them get birth control if they need help. B) Better that they feel that it's okay to come home than stay out somewhere unsafe or spend more time out drinking. C) That way you get a better…

The Village Voice said it was published in 1999. So that is not before the internet, as in the world wide web, search engines, and chat rooms, but certainly before the internet as we know it now.

I think the self-published clue might be that the top of the cover advertizes a "Forward" by someone, rather than a "Foreword"....

Are there no gay women in France or something?

Ha. What a loser. Nice work getting rid of him so quickly!

Is it already April Fools Day in New Jersey?

The fact that the court talked a lot about standing, especially in the Hollingsworth case, shouldn't surprise anyone. It raises novel, and rather bizarre, questions of standing that can't be ignored.

Prisons not only are unbelievably horrific places, they are places that 98% of people who enter will eventually leave. What then?

The point is, women are perfectly capable of victimizing other people, but they don't generally victimize men the way that this article is discussing. Men do, however, in groups, dehumanize and victimize women. Your own example is of women being harmed, not men.

Just like all the sorority hazings that end up in gang rape of men...?

And then they victimizing and dehumanizing men as a group...?