Dear Lindy, I want to write you a love letter today because by just marginally participating in some #YesAllWomen conversations on Twitter, I've encountered all kinds of uneducated assholes who can't wait to tell me how old/stupid/fat/irrelevant/unfuckable etc. I am (and some of these people are young women who have…

Here's the thing. We do not now, nor ever want your sorry ass as an ally. Our needs, our movement, our activism does not revolve around flattering your ego so that you deign to throw some tepid support our way. Aligning oneself with a progressive social movement that advocates for justice and equality towards an…

bottom line- if a considerable group of people think a term or phrase is problematic, hurtful or just plain unwanted, why would you have a problem eliminating it from your vocabulary? Who cares beyond wanting to be a decent person that aims to treat others with respect?

I'm not saying that I personally hold Seth Rogan or Judd Apatow responsible for that kid shooting up a bunch of bystanders in Santa Barbara or anything, but am I the only one who finds the whole reaction on their behalf kind of irritating? I think there were some (some!) valid claims about men feeling entitled to…

are all humans human, and equal? Yes. Are all cultural modes equal? No. Can you compare modern Norwegian society, or Canadian society, or Uruguayan society with the slave owning cultures of Ancient Rome, or the kafala system in the UAE?

There are about 12 or 13 members here that repeatedly say "Respect all cultures". Fuck you. This isn't culture. Culture would imply something specific to people. It isn't. It is used as a tactic of war across all continents and all people. There is nothing "cultural" in rape or murder.

It was very frustrating to be a young man though and see the same alpha males get 90% of the casual sex

In all due respect, I disagree. I think humans are an invasive species, like itchy algae. Things were just fine for a few billion years until we came around a couple hundred thousand years ago and screwed up a nice place. Humans are horrible, cruel, short sighted, ego driven animals.

Solange's music sales saw a pretty solid spike after that whole elevator thing. As in they jumped from 600 track sales/week to 2,000.

Oh, I got it, you are white privileged pseudo liberal woman who discovered the horrors of Islamophobia from her nice liberal bubble in the US.

Yes, exactly! Islamic law is beautiful and complicated, and when racist bigots cite exactly what the people doing these things point to as justification, it's just racism. I mean, for example, the verse that orders 100 lashes for fornicators (24:2) can be interpreted in so many complicated ways. Also, it was…

I don't think you can compare those two things at all. Yes, a Muslim woman in Europe might be the victim of a violent crime, but that violent crime would be the act of a criminal- it wouldn't be the fucking government having her flogged for giving someone a tiny kiss in public. I hope you can understand the difference…

Given the choice between a public flogging and not being able to wear a veil, which would you pick? When was the last time a European government had a muslim woman flogged? The western world isn't perfect but please stop with the BS, it's nowhere as bad as anything you would get in an Islamic country.

Thems fightin' words! You aren't allowed to criticize any element of any culture other then your own. It just isn't done!

The obsession with chastity is the embodiment of the male ego. The fact that men think they're penises are so amazing that one entering a woman alters the value of her as a person is disgusting and egotistical. Human life does not go up or down in value based on whether or not a person has had sex or how many people…

Nope still dont believe it, Im fully convinced people can be swayed by the facts!

"Sexism isn't real. Vaccines cause autism. Barack Obama is a secret Muslim Kenyan socialist terrorist. Fat people are lazy."

Rather than not being a perfect example, I don't think this article has anything to do with your statement. Nobody was allowed to decorate their caps with anything. Nobody else was "celebrated" for having feathers or beads in their graduation cap. There was no cultural appropriation going on here at all. And nobody…

Honestly, many young women only wear bindis for fashionable purposes these days. The meaning behind them is not really paid attention too much. Older women still hold onto the tradition, but the religious meaning isn't so important anymore. Relax. The white women aren't stealing it from us, we are sharing it with them.

And if you'll look to your left, we have a great example of the difference between the idealized male physique and female physique: