It’s also incredible how long we’ve been asking exactly these questions. I’m a teaching assistant for a an introductory English class. Part of the class is learning to close read (paying attention to language, literary techniques and conventions, etc) and we just finished a novel, published in 1797, called The Coquette…

This is a nit-picky thing, but why hyphenate the word bisexual? It’s been spelled without the hyphen for a very long time.

I’m a millennial. I am a Bernie supporter and I’m not going to go on a huge tirade about it. The two candidates are basically on the same page, although he’s more idealistic and she has some troubling ties to Wall Street and private prisons. It’s that stuff that makes me prefer Bernie to her. Yes, he’s idealistic but…

I’m a dominant woman, too, and I think your response is right on. I don’t think this piece necessarily precludes a conversation about dominant women and submissive men, though. Rather, to me, it seems like a great place to start these conversations.

Bookmarked! Thanks!

I’m not a mom. I have, however, been a nanny for many years and I just accepted a position (starting in May) with a very wealthy family with four children. The two older ones are mostly self-sufficient, but the two youngest, both girls, are the ones I’ll be caring for. I’ve cared for young girls before, from the ages…

Even fantasy literature does not exist in a vacuum. All art is a product of the society in which it is created, and thus can be suceptible to all the problems that society already has. I don’t see why that’s so difficult to understand.

And people are allowed to respond in any way they like. Criticism isn’t silencing, it’s a reaction. She’s obviously free to ignore the criticism. None of us are going to break down her door and carry her off into the night for a bad interpretation of some monolithic “Native American culture.” She’s free to create, but…

To be clear, they weren’t criticizing the term. They were criticizing the implication that there is some monolithic “Native American culture” that spans all of the indigenous nations of the Americas. They probably say that because it’s true. And they’d probably know more about it than a non-native person.

Because, as native people will tell you (and I think they’d know about their own experiences), there is no such thing as Native American culture. There are different cultures for each nation of indigeous people and lumping them all together ignores the many nuances of each individual group. That’s literally all anyone…

Look up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk on the danger of the “one story” for marginalized groups. She’s far more eloquent than I can be on the subject.

To be 100% fair, I think people create those kinds of ships because there is so little real representation. Of course they’re forcing characters together in their minds - it’s either that or nothing at all. I haven’t seen the movie, so I won’t throw an opinion in about Poe/Finn. But I think it’s important to remember…

This is so fantastic. I’m going to be studying library science starting in August (yay, grad school!) and I wouldn’t mind being like this lady when I grow up. I’ll be concentrating on archives and preservation, but thinking about being in charge of all of those wonderful pieces of history is making me swoon a little.…

I’m gray forever, but I still want to throw my two cents in. I love this article precisely for passages like this:

I understand what’s being said. They are upset because they believe that the basis for this study is being questioned unfairly. I’m arguing that, since scientific research does not exist in a cultural vacuum, that it might be prudent to ask why such a study was conducted at all, if not to gauge the usefullness of…

Scientists can and do impose their biases on physical evolution. For centuries scientists claimed that African and Asian people were biologically inferior to Caucasian people based on evolution, some even still claim this in the face of overwhelming evidence. There is no science that is removed from the society in…

Sciences exist within society, though, not outside of it. Scientists are as capable of bias as anyone else who exists in society.

Science doesn’t exist outside of society, looking in. It is also a product of society, and can therefore exhibit all the failings of society, sexism included.

I’m 23 and I’m very aware of all the issues you raise. I know there are young women out there who fit your description, but I don’t think you’re giving young women enough credit. Don’t talk to BernieBros about why they’re voting for Bernie. Try talking directly to the young women. You’ll find they’re more…

I don’t disagree that a lot of young women are trained to be subservient to men. I do think, though, that if you talk to young women who are for Bernie (myself included), you’ll find them more well-informed than their male counterparts. Bernie has been more consistent on feminist issues, as well as on youth, LGBT,…