Women are free to feel however they wish about it. But opinions and feelings don’t change the reality that this custom only exists in the first place to dehumanize and control women within a patriarchal religious system. This is true of any misogynistic custom, I’m not singling out head coverings, it’s just the…

oh hear we go with the Islamophobia. Guess i upset the white feminist jezzie hive by actually acknowledging positive aspects of Islam

I cant use a male cousin to demonstrate Islams positive power on people because this is Jezebel? whatever

Nah, it’s about business 100%

this is about more than “business” - its about celebrating the Hijab and re-affirming that women covering themselves is a valid part of our society

This is great news. I think the US needs to be moving in a more Islamic direction itself and we can learn from this. I’m not Muslim myself but i think women covering their heads is beautiful - my cousin converted a couple years ago and Islam has done nothing but improve his life. If you watch some of Linda Sarsours…

Nothing smashes the patriarchy like celebrating a custom of a patriarchal religion meant to dehumanize and control women.

I see the resident rape apologist is out and already starred. Fantastic. Here’s why I don’t buy that men “don’t understand what’s going on with women”: because it’s bullshit. There have been multiple studies that have proven over and over again that men do understand body language and non-verbal cues, they just choose…

Neither men nor women are monoliths. The idea that an explicit series of rules around consent will ever be adequate to handle every given person and every given situation is a bad one, and litigating matters so that “consent” is about following a series of specific rules is never going to work.

I’ve never heard of this film until Red Letter Media reviewed it in their recent Half in the Bag. Hell, for a movie with such a big cast, you’d expect for this to get a huge marketing push. Hell, The Square had more advertising than this, and that film does not have an Affleck, a Mara and Rilo Kiley Ren Ken.

Exactly. Which is why Best Picture Academy Award doesn’t always go to the same film that won Best Director (in Driving Miss Daisy and Argo’s cases it might not even go to a film nominated for Best Director).

I hated the movie (not because of the female characters, but because of how incompetent everyone was, and the poor choices the RJ made). So if we state that the women were responsible for the movie, then I think we’ve just seen the proof of the equality of the sexes - the women have successfully fucked up as much as…

The world is full of little girls who’ve dreamt of sending the whole world straight to shit through greed and petty malice, only to be told they can’t because of their gender. Well I say it’s time that stops.

No she doesn’t. What the fuck are you talking about?

Being “sexually assertive” with someone who isn’t consenting to it is rape, champ.

It’s so bizarre that your comments are alternating between condemning all famous men as rapists and condemning all criticism of a famous man who is a rapist as racist.

Women need to explicitly say no, especially younger women. NO NO NO NO. I never had any problems saying that word. If they didn’t get what no meant, it was followed by a kick or a knee to the crotch. Women seem to give to much of their power away.

So that incredibly detailed story along with his confirmed phone number and apology isn’t enough? She needs to be outed and have people know who she is simply because she had the audacity to tell someone that Aziz Ansari engaged in sexual misconduct with her? Gross.

Not surprised. He always had a real dirtbag vibe to me.

The thing about the Aziz Ansari allegations, whether they’re accurate or not, is that so many of us can relate to a guy trying 50-leven times to convince you to have sex and because you don’t explicitly say NO, he keeps trying, despite your discomfort.