Care to look up the quotes for the causes of the Philippine war? Iraq? Afghanistan? Any war fought in modern history. They are full of quotes about the supposed reasons for the declaration.

Slavery most certainly was a core reason for the conflict. The South feared slavery would be outlawed or limited due to Lincoln's…

But he's half right: Lincoln's role in ending slavery is largely mythologized. The principal reason that the North declared war on the South was that the Confederacy had made off with land and resources belonging to the US government. Slavery was the factor that caused the South to split, but the Union didn't declare…

Thank you for making this point.

Articles like this one and responses like yours are the reason everyone thinks feminism is about man hating. Jesus Christ how naked is your hypocrisy. Can I get a feminism that is, you know, cognizant that blasting people of either genders for gender-related self esteem issues is 180 degrees from the goal point?

So, men experiencing negative self esteem are whiney babies, but women are hold the phone, stop everything, trigger warning, patriarchy is everywhere.

Since you insist on taking on the psuedo-intellectual angle, Mr. Webster, the argument that Nicki herself is making in that video is that there is a difference between "assertive" and other terms. What you are trying to claim is that there is no difference between assertiveness and more negative terms like whiny,…

Get off the internet, Nicki.

RE: Not a pepper.

The Spice Girls are the highest charting female group of all time. Sales does not have any relationship to quality. Quite the opposite in fact. Bananarama is in the top 10.

Maybe you missed the "retaining humility"part.

So there's a way we can get the wigs sans Nikki Minaj? Sign me up.

And BTW, Miss Minaj. Aretha Franklin is assertive. Millie Jackson is assertive. Even Debbie Gibson in her way was assertive. You are not assertive, because to be assertive you have to stand your ground while retaining humility. What you are is a…

Gross when explained that way, but overall not terribly different than a plant grown in manure.

Although this is satire, it should be noted that most people's negative reaction to it is because visually it comes very close to resembling a bleeped word. For example: sh*t and f*ck are not going to be read as "shot" and "feck." Interestingly sh*t won't usually even be read as equally offensive past tense "shat."…

To build on this—and the reason I frequently comment on a blog I don't particularly agree with on a number of issues—Jezebel has influence on national conversations. This blog is more than just an opportunity for individual writers to speak their mind. The comments section is really the only way for the general public…

The good news being they'll stab you in the back long before you pass of a heart attack or stroke. :)

I wouldn't disagree that there is something wrong with white communities that leads to them shooting each other.

You are fooling yourself if you think black murder victims with black shooters elicit any kind of public sympathy or particularly high conviction rate. Black shooters with white victims, possibly. But no one outside the immediate community cares about black on black murder, least of all this website or the people on…

You don't understand. Saving the lives of black teenagers is nowhere on the agenda around here (it very much is in other online communities who discuss gun violence). On this site, it's all about the opportunity to claim one isn't a racist, and to do that the only scenario you need pay attention to is white (ish)…

Umm.. since it's more than slightly implied that the two women in the ad are single, we'd have to imagine that they do their own ironing. It's also really interesting (okay, actually not all that interesting) that you've somehow managed to flip the blatant objectification of men in this ad as somehow being anti-woman.

Gay and bi guys say that kind of thing to other guys and it's kind of whatever. Anyway reading this site is always such a revelation to me. Mainly, that straight sex sounds like a jockeying rally where a dominant party spends his energy trying not to offend a subjugated party with a "history of oppression." Jesus…