Ergh. I'm so torn about this. On one hand, I understand the idea that feminism should be a woman-only place/movement. Maybe there are times when feminist spaces do need to be all female. But then I can't help thinking about how homophobia/transphobia/queerphobia is predicated on the same worldview as misogyny and…

That's probably the best 26 seconds of my life.

And I have never seen that level of a-hole from vegetarians towards meat eaters. And for me that's a fact.

Why am I feeding this troll?

I think you're getting your stories mixed up. You just said "I actually havent seen the level of that" in reference to vegetarians being aggressive about vegetarianism, and now you're saying you get accosted at least once a month by crazed vegetarians. Which is it?

The tone and content of the post from "30 minutes ago" is completely different than the tone and content from your original post in this thread. Because "espouse my point of view/troll because somehow what I think is more important or more right than anyone else's" is exactly what you ended up doing.

Right on. I eat completely vegetarian during the week, and like you, will order seafood in restaurants. I just eat what I like to eat, and don't eat what I don't like to eat. It's pretty simple, really. I just don't get why people who do eat meat feel the need to lecture me about my food choices. I can't tell you how…

Um, you initiated this conversation with a comment about how you have "never heard meat eaters say anything as disgusting as calling vegetarians murderers. I have never seen meat eaters do the equivalent of throwing blood on those who don't eat meat. I have never seen a meat eater go story about broccoli and start…

And meat eaters never make up stories about how insufferable other people's eating choices are, and never say derogatory things about vegetarians, like, say, vegetarians are always calling them murderers, throwing blood on meat-eaters, and lecturing meat-eaters about broccoli. Yup, my bad, meat-eaters are all innocent…

Has anyone in this discussion called you a murderer? Good thing you have that "almost" disclaimer...

This shit happens all the time. "Oh come on, it's just bacon!"

"seen stories about meat and vegetarians start calling people murders and the like."

Though I am not a skier, I too have a super hard time finding jeans that fit. I love wearing slim-fit jeans because "regular fit" look dumpy to me. Sloppy. However, I have gigantic calves. You know those guys who have huge upper bodies, and tiny chicken legs? I'm the reverse. In order to fit around my calves I have to…

Brilliant. Fucking brilliant.

When did Erin Gloria Ryan turn into Andy Kaufman?

I agree with Hillary that the video is problematic, but not for the same reasons. I think a bigger point is being missed in this whole discussion: Chola culture is pretty much the only representation of Latino/a culture in the media. This is what a lot of white people think latinos act/dress like. It's either cholo or…

Totally agree. You have to know when to stop. I do, however, know the pressure of feeling like "I have to finish this!" It's really hard in the moment to make that call.

I feel like most of the people in the care tents are there because they didn't properly train. I ran the Chicago marathon two years ago, and trained like crazy for it. I had a great run. I ran it again this year, but didn't train as hard as I had the previous year. It made a huge difference. I can't tell you how many…

This is a billion kinds of awesome...

I actually did understand that you were talking about her specifically. I just mentioned the different accents for background. What you're saying about Gershon's original intent is really interesting. I think it would have been great to play up Donatella's weird speech patterns.