I probably shouldn’t comment without having seen La La Land, but wasn’t that part basically the manic pixie dream girl, with a slightly sardonic twist [like most everything she does]?

I really like this. People are so much more complicated than that one shitty thing we say in the moment...and I think it’s entirely possible to use your privilege to get ahead [which a lot of us do, maybe even all of us] and still try to fight the isms.

I like that latter part.

Yeah it’s amazing how much stupid shit I said as a young twenty-something [and still do]. Trying to articulate your feminism while simultaneously living in a [formerly] country music brand and dealing with probably hush-hush advice from one’s publicist must have been awful. Trying to articulate anything given…

She is my very favorite of the celebrities right now. Her response to all this was pitch-perfect. I think she doesn’t get enough credit for being thoughtful and well-intentioned, and this all shows how very much she has grown as a human.

A seventh grade girl at my middle school was sexually assaulted in a bathroom by several eighth-grade boys, and that happened relatively often—she was just the first to speak about it. I’d imagine that in an all-boys school, the rape of boys would become more common.

That was so utterly depressing—and so very likely.

I agree with everything you said, and I don’t think it gets said enough. I love horse racing and I hope to be involved with it someday, but literally any horse not pulling their own weight financially get sent to auction, or sometimes straight to slaughter—including horses ruined by over-racing, bad training, a bad…

I am so with you, first of all, and second, “perfectly good zoos” and “elephants” are not terms that belong in the same sentence. Elephants are almost as self-conscious and emotionally complex as whales—actually, they’re whales closest land-bound relative. Zoos are terrible for elephants, and even if the only change…

I think your questions are fair, but I also think you’re doing an excellent job of poking holes in what is a well-intentioned start to a plan to end an abusive program. Do we have a full-fledged solution? Of course not. So how about you get to work on that, instead of implying those who want to move forward on the…

There are also lots of increasingly inexpensive whale-watching options. A ticket to Sea World costs just as much as a ticket to watch whales in the wild. There’s no real reason why someone could fly across the country to get to Sea World but couldn’t make it to a whale-watching tour. People just want the convenience I…

It’s the height of arrogance for these trainers and Seaworld reps to continuously discuss how much they “love” these orca whales. Manipulating someone into performing to feed your own bank account is no different from pimps who insist “their” women get raped for money, then beat these women black and blue for making…

THIS IS WHY PEOPLE HATE WHITE LIBERALS. These people DO insist there are two sides to every story, both people were in the wrong, etc. NO. The person with power in a given situation has more responsibility to ensure both people’s safety. Plus if you sign on to be a cop, you absolutely ought to be of a mindset to…

I never saw anything like that while I was in jail, but I was also a young white woman with a college ID. One of my friends in there did tell me about her arresting officer raping her, and the nurse who inducted us into jail told me one-third of the women who entered jail said a cop had sexually assaulted her.…

I tend to assume anything cops do is going to be excused, or deemed legal after the fact. Cops are a tool of the state to defend their monopoly on property. That’s literally what they do and what they’re intended to do. Constructing POC as a threat to that means cops will attack POC. Has nothing to do with anyone’s…

I know he owned slaves and was a rapist, but Jefferson still produced the Constitution and did some real good in the world by nurturing the burgeoning democracy of the U.S. Not sure comparing him with a man basically only famous for being a general in the Confederate army is really particularly apt.

Amazing how the more I learn about Brad Pitt, the more he seems like one more white-guy man-child. The man is richer than Croesus and he can’t afford to pay his interior decorator? Entitled, no?

I was really disappointed in this article. This is supposedly a feminist site, and the article doesn’t mention the reality of how different power dynamics are between men and women regarding sex. The article is also very heterosexist and hetero-centric. In reality, many men pressure the women they’re married to by…

Molesting a dog somehow doesn’t seem all that much better morally from molesting a child.

Um, I spent the last year actually making change on my campus and making space for POC to speak up about racism. What have you done to fight racism?