Well, no, it's not. I mean, sure, it may be personally annoying but it's demonstrably not insulting to be called "cute". Fat shaming is actual discrimination or body policing, such as humiliating a teenager in a store and telling her to leave because of her size. This is NOT about how it's supposedly only okay for fat…

Stop. This is a completely different issue than something that is, at worst, a mild inconvenience for you. No one is dehumanizing you if they say they don't carry your small shoe size. Telling a teenage girl she is too big and must leave a store IS dehumanizing, humiliating, and unethical. They don't know what she was…

That seems subjective, though, no? The original song has a lot of rapey lyrics, like "tear your ass in two" and things that, taken as a whole, perpetuate the general idea that women are sexualized things, not people. While castration would be extreme and awful, it's clearly a reaction to the original lyrics and ideas…

Acting like rape only counts as rape if it's violent, or that it needs qualifiers, is deeply problematic when we are talking about adults and children. Sexual molestation is not always violent, but it IS always an abuse of power, and a violation of a person's body. Pedophile's rationalize abusing children using the…

Well, I did actually mention part of the relevance, in that it was implied that somehow she was complicit in her abuse, and the fact that neither the Jez or WaPo article even mention her race is also problematic. Beyond that, as the other commenter noted, girls of color are generally victim blamed for reasons white…

This piece blew UP my twitter feed over the weekend for many of the reasons stated, and several that aren't. One of the things not mentioned here: the mother of the girl was alerted to grade drops and depression in her daughter by other teachers, and then told by a friend she confided in about the rape. Before the…

Anyone else really disturbed that someone who says the things she says doesn't know they're racist? How does that happen? How can you be confronted with the. things. you. actually. said. and claim it's the "perception" of Southerners? I mean, what.

If you really don't know why you were being an ass then it's a good thing I commented because it should be relatively clear by now. You were walking into a conversation with no information, declaring your opinion, and then preemptively dismissing anyone who does see it as a problem based on your lack of information.…

Thank you. As another fellow white person I'm really glad someone else is pointing this out, too. I have the luxury of not having to see this as an issue if I want to, but it's pretty clear with like two seconds of reading up on it what it's all related to and why it is a problem. I really wish other white people…

Uhm, you've mentioned several times now that you're white dude with little to no understanding of black culture or why appropriating it for the purposes of pop music might be problematic. I get that you "don't get it" but that's really not a valid excuse for you to keep saying it's "stupid" or "lowest common…

I'm not seeing justification so much as consideration for a "might have" scenario. If access to abortion had be legal and safe, it's more likely this situation wouldn't have gone this far. I mean, she hid the pregnancy for 9 months so she was able to cope with it for that long AND hide it. But now once she gave birth.…

Yes, but, someone who really doesn't want to be pregnant (we don't the circumstances of this pregnancy, but she was hiding it from her parents so obviously it wasn't good to start with) who is unable to access an abortion might very well spend 9 months barely coping and then snap when they give birth. It's a traumatic…

Well, the fact that she was likely mentally unwell would probably be why she did this. Mentally ill people who kill a newborn aren't thinking rationally, so it probably didn't occur to her to leave the baby at the hospital or elsewhere. Also, I think the article got some facts wonky. It says she gave birth in her…

This is pretty much the crux of much of the anti-choice movements true motivations. Their "fee fees" about abortion are more important than, and apparently should be legislated OVER, other people's body autonomy. Even when actual facts about reduced abortions are right. there. That's not what they want. They want no…

It's also interesting to note that the show is very, very, very, very critical of Piper. She sort of starts off sympathetic, though clearly entitled and privileged. And as it unfolds you realize she's kind of awful. She's racist, she's manipulative, she's judgmental and even flat out mean. As the show progresses,…

I never had The Talk, because sex was something my mom was pretty open about from the get go. Like, we didn't have one dramatic convo because we'd been having smaller conversations about it since well before puberty. Sometimes there was some TMI (I didn't need to know about HOW she and my dad use do it, thanks) but…

Sure, but, what's "attractive" is subjective. Not everyone is attracted to the exact same body type. That your partner is turned on by you is great and that you like to be attractive to them in a way that you also like for yourself is also great. But that's really not the purpose of your body or where its worth lies,…

Even worse, she had to cancel doing signings because of actual threats to hurt her OR people threatening to commit suicide. Anyone doing that is about as far from a "fan" as possible.

Yeah, PETA's "ethics" have been in serious question for a while now. How you get attention for your cause should matter and this stuff is gross. Know what else is gross? Their goal of doing away with pets/domesticated animals and preferring kill shelters and euthanization than any attempt to find loving homes.

Actually, it's well known in animal rights circles that PETA not only does kill shelters, but wants to do away with domestic animals/pets altogether. They think it's better to kill animals than have people care for them. They're pretty vile. And I say that as a two decades long vegetarian and ethical treatment of…