It will most likely be cross-posted to The Root in due time, when someone with posting privileges shares it. The real question is why Jezebel’s first and only contribution to JezeRoot Pride Month appears the day after Pride Month concluded.

But by saying “Hey dudes! Think of how much money you’ll save if she has an abortion!” is encouraging other conversations:

The fact that they toss out around the word “groupthink” so freely while ensconced in a secret, private listserv where they happily jerk each other off about how great they are is pretty much the epitome of the problem.

I really want to like Ariana Grande but I cannot look at her without thinking of that scene in Community where Annie is doing the over-the-top “sexy Xmas baby” shtick.

I’m much more concerned that the memory of this period will make her hang about long after she should be on self protection mode. That’s the tendency in BPD couplings. You wait for the person you fell for to come back forgetting that alot of what you fell for are actually just symptoms of his idealisation phase. Maybe…

and Jon Snow are getting married today in REAL LIFE Ygritte’s family castle in REAL LIFE because she is of noble blood in REAL LIFE!!!

Ariana is the 30 Rock very sexy baby joke come to life and it makes me v uncomfortable. That’s probably the nicest and most Jezebel-friendly way I can respond to Pete’s assertion. And yes, I understand that taste is subjective.

I have noticed that most feminist websites need to employ at least one writer over 30 because the sites have no clue what life is like outside of academia or their echo chambers. This reminds me of them complaining that Dietland was sooo 2008 and that no one cared if women were fat anymore.

If they were talking about how more girls need to be the protagonist in “Bobby Goes to School!” type books I might be on board here. But, as you mentioned, these are kids books about real people, of course they are going to be about extraordinary adults, men and women, and gloss over the age-inappropriate parts of…

Hi. Have you met children? Have you tried to hold their attention during story-time? Have you spent hours at a library trying to direct them to books that weren’t filled with retrograde sexist garbage because that’s 90% of what’s been published since the invention of the Gutenberg press? No? Then kindly take a…

It’d be great to see people find a way to write kids’ books about activist communities! And daily life in whatever-time-period! I read some good daily-life books as a kid and they were truly engrossing.

Jesus Goatfucking Christ, we have FINALLY gotten a little representation in children’s books, and now you’re bitching that it doesn’t have enough torture in it?

This! I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on and the books I loved the most were the ones with boys as protagonists, not because they were boys but because they were having the kinds of adventures I wanted to have. I had no use for Little Women or Jane Eyre or Little House on the Prairie, not because…

I really do not understand what the problem Jez and Slate is trying to stir up about these books is. Boys have always had role models and icons who they were told made history. It is about time that girls get to understand that they can make history, too, and that they have always made history but it was hidden.

The format privileges the successful and the extraordinary, popping them out of their context and any social movements or communities of activism or mutual aid that sustained their work. Telling stories for children also tends to file away rough edges, and there’s also the matter of who gets included, which is rarely…

they showed him as a adolescent young woman first, coming through the revelation that he was in fact trans, so it needed to be played by a woman.

I don’t doubt for a second that any government agent directly involved in this process must be a complete sicko, but we cannot shift focus away from the people who have large-scale power in this situation. Sure, border agents could make a show of disobeying orders and create chaos that makes enforcement more…

We live in a country that didn’t blink when children this age were annihilated at Sandy Hook. Unfortunately, this won’t do anything either.

“White female nurses and school teachers are usually married to cops.”

I’m lucky in that he actually does school drop off, volunteers at the school, etc. I wish that I could do those things. On the rare occassion that I do make it to a school function, there’s always at least one snide comment from another mom about how they don’t often see me or thought that he was a single dad, and it…