Regardless of whether we disagree about whether Manning should be in prison, can we at least agree that this is an egregious way to treat non-violent criminals? A person commits a non-violent crime, and then their entire lives are taken from them? And they can potentially lose any “privileges” for having a memoir in…

Yeah, I think the only time you can expect to see a diatribe beginning with something like, “I am the most feminist person I know. . . .” or “I am the least racist person I know. . . .” we can expect that the scribe just did something incredibly mysogynistic or racist.

Creepy as fuck.

That makes sense! Though, man, that is a convoluted insult. I can’t believe she actually spent time stitching something so un-funny into a t-shit. And that’s not even taking the fact that it was cruel into consideration.

Dear Selina, you’re a loser

I remember this story, and how it was awful, and I can see the awfulness/cruelty, given it was obviously directed at Vera . . . .but, I never really understood what “A Low Vera” was supposed to mean, as in, what is the the actual interpretation of the combination of the words “a” “low” “vera?” Am I alone here? Is this…

I have no idea what her music sounds like, nor do I have full knowledge of all of the things she is known for doing. . . .but I have a strange liking for her. I like that she has admitted when she was wrong: about feminism, about making Nikki Minaj’s comments about race + the industry all about her. . . . Not a ton of…

Spot on. I think one of the things that has shocked me the most about H&M, post-recovery, is how when I first discovered it, in like 2003, I was like, “FINALLY! I found clothes that fit me PERFECTLY!” And, like, they fit PERFECTLY.

That makes sense. For what it’s worth, just given the general conversation about sizing, other companies, such as Gap, seem to have more realistic sizing, from my perspective—I’m a small/x-small there. And I have never been able to find anything that fits me at Banana Republic. . . . everything hangs off me like a…

No, it’s not. Health complications are much more probable for BOTH infants and mothers when the mother is younger than 15.

Dear Mike Huckabee,

The most disturbing part about watching the GOP debates: how so many candidates are racing to the bottom in terms of women’s rights. Seriously, this is how they are trying to appeal to their base? It’s sickening.

I don’t really agree, although I will admit to only knowing a cursory amount about vanity sizing.

This is something I have wanted to bring up about H&M for a while.

I haven’t read the whole piece in New York, but from the summary here, it would not appear that she ever implies that connection.

But, like, THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS!

That burqa shit is incredibly freaking offensive. Particularly as they are banned in France.

What’s with the snark? Why not just publish a piece on the issue?

this awfulness:

I believe the article was about solutions to the HIV-crisis striking transgender sex workers in Jakarta, which, if it has some behavioral and/or medical scientific merit (by which I mean is not just a description of the crisis), is a pretty typical kind of article for Science. That being said, that cover is…