It might be in the most technically stringent definition of the concept, but in the real word it's so laughably trivial, and that's of what they're expressing with that scene

Wow, you're really bad at interpreting everything.

See, he's done this before, expressing his personal distaste for petty inconsequential things in the form of cultural protest and Ilana knows it all too well, but she tolerates it 'cause they're besties.

Then why wouldn't he just say that they're tacky, the same way he just told the guy his mustache was hideous. The whole point is that Jaime is finally being honest instead of holding back his criticisms. Ilana also wears all sorts of tacky shit, so singling out the earrings doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.

Specifying "don't or can't cum during sex" also makes it sound a little 1950's "women who can't have vaginal orgasms are frigid and unnatural". Maybe he's talking about all sex, including acts which are replete with direct clitoral stimulation, but it's not like he's earned benefit of the doubt.

First she got it cut shorter and in a perm, and then she straightened it.

I don't think I'd mind her attitude so much if it wasn't combined with her describing herself as the "kindest queen in town". if she was fun-bitchy I could see it as just part of the joke, but as is she comes off as a bitch with no self-awareness.

You know, for all the blah-blah about how "unlike Glee" this is, Brittany on Glee was also "unlabeled" and also aggressively non-monogamous through the bulk of the show. "Bisexual lady simply 'free-spirited' and 'above gender'; also sleeps around a lot" is not a new trope in any way.

It's the same reason people get emotional about Hachiko in Japan or dogs who make their way home after being left behind at the Grand Canyon or whatever. Dog loyalty is heartbreaking, especially combined with the fact that they don't understand death or disappearance.

Clarke, at least as portrayed in this series, was also pretty surprised at finding herself being discriminated against as a woman, both in being assigned male co-counsel and in hearing how the public reacts to her as a powerful woman - and in both cases, she swept it under the rug and didn't even really acknowledge it…

My impression was that Darden wasn't referencing the voice in his head, but the voice of other people. He spoke about knowing that he had earned his place in law school, but feeling other people's eyes on him and believing that they thought he was just there because of affirmative action. It's only now that he begins…

I just think the problem lies in the old morality couched in our culture that forbids honest talk about what real, good sex is like rather than in people enjoying themselves, doing it to "tease the guys", engaging in sex acts for financial compensation or any other reason for exhibitionism.

In your reply, you skipped over any reference to my paragraph about strippers and porn stars and the fact that things that look sexy often don’t feel sexy. I assume that’s because you didn’t see it as particularly relevant to the rest of it, but I think it does explain a gulf in understanding between us.

Speaking as an actual bisexual, I find that sort of "everyone's really bisexual" thinking to be interesting as an abstract idea, but not particularly useful in practical terms. (Particularly if you're discussing it in terms of an attraction to "masculine and feminine”—if you’re a woman who is attracted to butch women,…

Thanks for making me want to reread Female Chauvinist Pigs.

I think if you're genuinely interested in arguing against or engaging with the concepts spoken of in the book, you should probably read the book itself rather than reacting to my one-sentence distillations of complex, book-length arguments.

I think McCowen's reading is accurate, but it's still not quite saying what you think it's saying, primarily because I don't think you can create a simple binary between "pro-sexual feminism" and "anti-sexual feminism." It's possible to critique some aspects of (what we think of as) "sex" without being anti-sex or…

I think it is the intellectuals like Ms. Levy who are sapping women of agency by saying they can't enjoy casual sex because they are being used rather than equal partners in a mutually enjoyable activity.

Yeah, as evidenced by the nominal plot vs. actual plot phrasing in my comment, I don't really agree that the movie accomplished what it thinks it accomplished, but I guess at least it tried.

Yeah, that's probably true. It's just an example of a non-princess movie with an eponymous female character. I'm not actually sure I could think of another one.