@resplendent.bitch: You are too kind, Ms. B.

@Thus Spake Kate is effulgent.: Yes. This post basically tripped and fell over its own profound lack of consciousness of class privilege.

"And this is a pity, because it lowers the bar on the kind of woman it's okay to be. Whereas once young women might aspire to be eloquent, graceful as poised as Grace Kelly… well, now you should just be flustered, clumsy and cute."

HR 3 nicely represents the political bind that anti-choice politicians find themselves in. The rape, incest, and health-of-the-mother exceptions to abortion are nearly untouchable. Why? Public opinion. Less than 20% of Americans want abortion to be illegal under any circumstances. (More want it to be legal in all…

All this kind of advertising successfully does is promote the myth - obvious from some of the comments downthread - that one cannot be a good feminist and support animal welfare.

This shit grinds my gears.

@sequined: Loophole!

Aaron Sorkin should write a film about it. At least in 1965 his all-male vision of Harvard would be more accurate.

@cisum88note: I think you're just parroting back the free online dictionary definitions of "crisis" - which are not what the word "crisis" means - let alone implies - when used by news organization to describe social and upheaval. If you want to play the dictionary definition game, though, see definition 3 here:

@Irin Carmon: You may have misunderstood the thrust of my comment. I was adding, not arguing. For the record, I think that that meetings like the one you described attending are great.

Facts have a hard time getting in when they have to punch through fear. Anti-choice propaganda targeted at Black Americans, like the billboard above or the documentary mentioned, plays on historically rooted fears of the Black community. When you're a Black American, social and government institutions - including…

@cisum88note: Using the word "crisis" - especially early on during times of political unrest - adopts the perspective of the regime in power. It isn't neutral at all in a case like this.

I am glad to see Mona Eltahawy featured here. While I disagree with some of her analysis and predictions of the regional politics of the Middle East, and I think she is far too optimistic about what will actually come of a revolution in Egypt (not because Egyptians are incapable of realizing a revolution or governing…

@voteforme: That ship has sailed. Wikipedia already is the dominant repository of general information on the internet, due in large part to the way Wikipedia and search engines like Google are configured. You Google "swordfish" and the first results are from Wikipedia. If a Wikipedia entry didn't exist on swordfish,…

@Princess Leela: There are, like, five bazillion kinds of ideological anarchists. The belief that unifies anarchists is the belief that concentrated state authority is undesirable/evil/contrary to human flourishing/otherwise something we want to do away with. For most anarchists, the organization provided by the state…

I think Kim Kardashian would be able to achieve significant and lasting success if she applied her really pretty impressive marketing skills to other people.

@mgallagher713: OMG VEGAN CORNDOGS.

@onestrawplz:

This might be a ridiculous personal preference, but if you are the fuck going to buy me a camera from Urban Outfitters, just save yourself the trouble and buy me laundry detergent. Just don't spend $35 on it.

I think Mr. Starfish Octopus has a theme song he likes to sing: