Not when they're expressing frustration by constantly comparing their bodies to hers.

Yeah, as a fat woman, I don't magically get a right to make my thinner friends feel uncomfortable or bad about their bodies. How does that help anybody?

The single best thing about this shit-show is the commenters. You guys give me faith in humanity. <3

This is something that confuses me, based on my very limited experience in China. I spent 6 months as a visiting student in a lab in China, and every one of my lab mates had a sibling, and a couple of people had multiple siblings. I didn't go around asking in case it was a rude question, but people would ask me how…

This is ridiculous. I can't believe that this is happening AGAIN with Dr. Cooper. To echo her words from this piece:

Obviously people care about men getting beat up. The whole point of the article is that black women are allowed to be preoccupied by the struggles of black men, but black men often dismiss the struggles of black women. When black men are violent it's "indicative of problems in the home/community/nation" but when…

It's like it's open season on black women. I am so fucking sick of it. Black men get to dog the shit out of us. They will cape for white women and talk about us like we are less than the shit on the bottom of their shoes. I have had my male cousins discuss why they are not going to mess around with black women because…

You know, between the rampant misogynoir and Gloria Steinem brand feminism (aka white feminism), I'm really beginning to understand Zora Neale Hurston's claim that black woman is the mule of the world. It's like we exist in the blind spots of feminism and black rights.

This is what just happened in this comment box: "Are you serious? (Delete) I can't. (Delete) what the fuck? (Delete.)"

About this:

The most bothersome thing about this to me isn't even that he thought to look for rape porn to prove that porn gets through, even though rape porn is illegal in the US and typically left up either because authorities don't know about it or authorities are using it as a honey trap. The most bothersome thing is that he…

I posted this in another thread, but I think it deserves it's own.

Even better is that I know people who live is district (and are appalled by him and will be voting against him) and they pointed me to this article:

Absolutely. Don't forget this either:

At this point, if you're a woman and you're voting for these clowns, you should lose your lady-ship card. Just...get out of my gender.

WHO WILL THINK OF THE MEN?

"I thought the store was into it actually. In fact I remember thinking, 'these alarms are so loud. I must be doing a really good job taking these diamonds!'"

Don't forget this part:

It's absolutely insane that many of the same lawmakers who want to ban abortion also expect women to have a baby on a Friday and be back at work the following Monday...and of course, the cost of child care be damned!

Um, hello Jezebel writers/mods. REALLY AWFUL RACIST THREAD ON THIS PAGE (right at the top, too.) Might want to think about greying that shit out. Just an idea. Ta.