I think it’s entertainment culture. people wanted to see what would happen ‘n forget there would be permanent consequences.

Any kind of disability definitely makes it harder. Honestly, though, likability is the kind of subjective bullshit used to measure this kind of thing.

Oh TOTALLY. I just quit my job cuz they expected me to do all the emotional work, never get angry, and were planning to call me in to shame me for violating this apparently set-in-stone rule. meanwhile I work harder than just about anyone else, and all the other women either tuned out emotionally or just played the…

Plus anything works for a short period of time, if it shocks people and keeps them interested. you could kill or maim someone on tv and folks would tune in and claim it was dramatic and artsy. Give it a few days, though, and suddenly people remember why they, y’know, don’t hate women, just THIS particular woman...but…

True-they’re obviously already feminists. It’s NYC for heaven’s sake.

Yeah, the truly oppressed folk.

Isn’t this the entire issue with blaming women for never pushing for promotions or higher salaries in the office? When women actually behave this way, we get fat-shamed and our other marginalized identities get called into center focus, and we’re not taken seriously. If we’re not young, thin, conventionally attractive…

I think also that folks are way overanalyzing. People make split-second decisions all the time, even stars—and she’s obviously not into being all planned and plotted. Maybe she said it in the moment cuz she wanted to, and didn’t think too hard about who she was representing or what any of it would mean. Like we ALL…

I get it, though. It’s hella confusing to figure out what your sexuality is, especially when you have to deal with your relationships in the public eye. Let her figure it out in her own time.

HAH.

I relate to so much of this. My mother makes me feel totally claustrophobic and completely neglected at the same time—like she’s desperate to love this perma-child I never was, who would be attached to her and dependent on her forever. Any move I made towards independence, she resented; any attempt I made to get…

People have successfully suggested that women wanted to be raped by dozens of men, so I could see this working.

Because after all, discussing playing out a rape FANTASY with one’s intimate partner is totes the same as hoping they beat you into unconsciousness and nearly kill you.

It’s so much more than fat-shaming, too. Outside of the social sciences at school, I have a harder time making friends or bonding with people—I mean the two women I sit next to in Biology are both “fat” and I don’t think that’s a coincidence, that “somehow” we all found one another and started sitting next to each…

I disagree, really. The idea of being better than someone else, out-competing them? I think it’s totally natural, biologically mandated, and can be quite joyous. I think the real problem is folks trying to achieve completely useless goals [like being the thinnest] as though it’s a reasonable and worthwhile goal. As…

I definitely had two uber-thin parents who successfully shamed me out of eating ANYTHING, to the extent that I was starving all the time, obsessed with food, and bound to purge anytime I could in order to store up calories for the days on end when my parents were feeding me about 1000 calories or less...and I was a…

Definitely some ad involving different body types and the suggestion they’re all okay, acceptable, and beautiful—and then maybe all those kids on a team playing basketball together?

I mean it’s definitely been that way since art about naked women by fully clothed men became a thing, so that’s the Renaissance...and that’s only European history, I’m not sure what it was like for other cultures. However, we ought to be socially aware enough as Feminists to recognize that this is a bullshit argument.…

You know that sooner or later this is going to prevent travel from the U.S. to these countries. Not to mention, what about all the U.S. citizens who will inadvertently be trapped thanks to this ban.

I don’t think it makes her activism more effective, practically speaking, but I DO think that it’s going to make it more difficult for her to gain professional respect amongst NGOs and make it less likely she will gain speaking assignments with the UN. She chose that kind of activism—a very high-profile,…