Thanks so much. I am actually an aspiring writer (isn't everyone) so that means a lot. If I end up starting my own righteous feminism website, it will be partly because of your kind words here! :)

Can I be honest? I've lurked here silently for so long and I'm a big fan of yours, so when I saw your avatar in a response to my post I was like OH MY GOD. NO. WAY. Thank you so much!

Thank you to you and everyone else who has commented. I don't know who to reply to, honestly, since there are so many, but you are first, so..!

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…