A “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” is a type of female character in movies who solely exists to teach the white male protagonist of the movie to learn to embrace life.

You won the internet. Here take everything! I am constitutionally incapable of trolling, but I wish I could do this. All I can do is, “Oh honey, oh sweetheart” them, and even that gets them seriously riled up.

She really is the best comedic actor alive. This is not up for debate!!!

To each her own. We have moved about 15 times across 4 countries and 3 continents. We have close to 2000 books and they move with us. When we last moved, I could not bring most of my books (due to some very weird circumstances) although the rest of the family did. I understand if someone wants only 30 books in their…

Eating disorders ARE attributed to the toxic norms of femininity by feminists. Why would I, a feminist woman, find this offensive? I find it liberating.

True. I loved this movie. And I barely remember the guys or the romance in it. It was so not about that.

I miss Grunge.  I will always miss Grunge.

I know she says that mostly in jest, but people keep saying, “nobody tells you your vagina is going to be wrecked. Nobody tells you how hard it is going to be. Nobody tells you how it is going to change your relationship. Nobody tells ...” You know what. They do tell. It’s everywhere. This is not the 1950s. There are…

Nobody cares about those things, and this is not going to give her a bump. That’s not at all what I argued. This controversy is giving her visibility, which is a good start for a presidential run. She probably hopes that by the time 2020 comes, this will be forgotten. In this current political climate, you want to be…

I think she already achieved what she wanted: visibility. We think everyone know who Warren is, but more than half the American population at any given time cannot name the VP. If you are going to run for presidency at this time of celebrity politics, you do not need to be more credible, you need to be more famous.…

I worked at a university. The street from the campus to the parking lot was short but dimly lit. I was once followed by a car on the weekend (although it was daylight, it was deserted). A cab driver saw me trying to run away the car and he came to save me. After that I always had security escort me to the parking lot.…

She’s impressive in a way many contemporary activists. And I don’t mean that other types of activists do not impress me, but she is different from many activists in my generation and around me (including me). It’s a more focused, more other-centered and less loud activism which relies less on visibility and more on…

Same here. I knew that very second that he had many other victims. And not all of them could escape his “attempts.” This type of behavior does not happen once. The story had the marks of a repeat offender.

How do they not have a choice in the matter? I’m never holding a woman while my husband rapes her. I’ll die before I do that. It’s a choice. It’s always a choice.

This is a very powerful piece. Thank you. I must add something. The way society craves to forgive these men can only be understood in contrast to the desire to punish the weak for much lesser crimes. People who spend years in prison for nonviolent crimes, people who have not hurt anyone are never given a chance to…

“Take comfort in law enforcement.” He’s funnier than you give him credit for.

The richest 100 people could end world poverty four times over. And if you distributed the wealth of all billionaires, we could end world poverty 7 times over.

The solution is very progressive taxation. Gates also suggests that he should be paying higher taxes. The tax code is full of intentional loopholes, so the…

I always thought we were supposed to dislike Kevin Spacey’s character in American Beauty because he was a piece of shit. A middle-aged man perving on a high school girl was so disgusting to me, I could not sympathize with whatever he was going through, and his wife didn’t seem that bad at all. I didn’t realize we were…

There are better health care systems that are way cheaper. There is a vast literature, tons of data and research on what works and what doesn’t and some of them are so basic, it’s mind-numbing. We know exactly what drives health care costs up and some of them are completely preventable/reversible without leading to…

I’m not crying, I’m not crying. I’m not feeling fully represented for the first time in politics, though I cannot even vote for her. I want to vote for her!