Alice Waters is a fabulous chef, but she's weirdly gender essentialist (she has an annoying article in Lucky Peach about how women make food to nourish and men make food as art... even though she is only talking about chefs, really...). The binary she forwards here of female=simple/male=complex is just as annoying to…

I also wonder if the majority of fast fashion consumers are women. Thought I think the power of consumers is often overstated in an effort to avoid regulation, I do think we also need to take responsibility for what we're supporting with our money.

Actually, she is probably around the average for Indian skin color. I have noticed that a lot of Americans have a stereotype for what they think Indians look like and anyone who does not fit that "look" is immediately assumed to be an exception and "she/he does not look Indian". I am an Indian and I have been confused…

Yeah yeah I know I know, choice agency double standards etc. etc., but I'm personally getting tired of the constant sexxxy noise that clogs up literally every cultural avenue nowadays. I can't go to the corner store for coffee creamer without seeing it. Remember ugly famous people? Like Edward G. Robinson and Patti…

I think you are both giving Miley too much credit and not enough. She is selling an image, one that we have no assurance is of her own agency, and seems to purely exist to cover a lack of talent (and talent is what Adele has in spades) as well to sell records. I personally don't have an issue with what she's doing in…

Dear Penthouse Forum: I'd read these stories and never believed them until it happened to me! I'm a 23 years old jihadist, fighting for my rights (and Allah!). One night, I was cleaning my gun after evening prayers, when a black clad woman came into the corner of the bombed out building I had taken shelter in between…

Linked to this article from Deadspin and, as a white-privileged-man, instantly lost almost all of the respect I had for Jezebel. I had always assumed it was a feminist site that dabbled in things that its target-demo (young, feminist women) found interesting with a hint of smug attitude (much like Deadspin does with…

"A year later, adults in Steubenville still aren't very interested in having a productive discussion about rape culture. "

Gonna have to say a big NOPE to the phrase "Want more sex? Write some checks," because paying bills and doing chores are things that need to happen and I don't want to have to negotiate with my body just to get basic shit accomplished. I'm not just gonna reward someone with a blowjob because they washed a dish.

Aspects of a culture can be problematic and oppressive without being bad. I love to cook and even like to clean. It doesn't make me a bad feminist. It's when social pressure requires women to shoulder the burdens of cooking and cleaning that there's a problem. And the social construct is the problem, not my own desire…

Fuck yeah! Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl is teaming up with The Daily Show's Larry Wilmore to create a series for HBO. Rae will star, write and serve as executive producer. Related question: How far in advance can you set your DVR to record a show that's still pre-production?

I definitely agree it ended like a Law & Order episode, but I took the rushed ending with the sort of cliched villain to be a statement of how these situations in reality often play out: the perpetrator is more than likely a family member or trusted adult who doesn't set off warning bells in a lot of cases, and gets…

I am just full of rage and anger. My mother was on her phone and told me, "Zimmerman was not found guilty" I felt like heart sank. It just scares me, I have an older black brother and a black father, both great people, never been in trouble with the law and super friendly, it kills me to think how people can reduce a…

Vote. Mobilize your friends to vote. Don't wait for 2016, start in your local elections.

Sometimes, I will flick a stuffed toy at my dog as he tries to just get some sleep, man. At some point, he gets annoyed and grabs the toy out of my hand and chews it until he is satisfied that I won't touch it again until it dries. I believe the Texas GOP legislature just annoyed Texas.

Get people registered and then also make sure they have picture ID well in advance of election day. Because if that hasn't come yet to TX it will darn soon. Darn soon.

I'm going to echo what Subrosa already told you. I grew up in in the upper-midwest and lived in larger cities throughout the midwest, as well as east coast. I was terrified to move to TX. And I was so so so so wrong!

"is it really that much of a stretch to say that a lot of our behavior is rooted in evolutionary adaptations?"

Yes. Absent identifying specific mechanisms, it is pretty shitty science to hinge human behaviour - which is a fuzzily defined collection of hugely varied and almost always non-uniform traits - on conjectures…

Did anyone else happen to read about Texas State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R), and her absurd and baffling "pro-life" ideology? Ms. Laubenberg has always taken the position that life begins at conception, and therefore cannot be terminated. Business as usual for the GOP right? Maybe not. Things became very interesting…