*Reaches over and starts the Cultural Relativist Clock, which begins counting down the moments until someone arrives claiming how wrong it is for us Cultural Imperialists to judge other cultures and their practices.*
Dee Kay
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I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but here goes... I am a mom to a 3-month-old. So I get the need to feed. It's important. It's natural. But really, I don't think it's too much to ask someone to cover it up in public. Politely. It shouldn't escalate into a brawl. And if the person refuses, then you should just walk…
I get where you're coming from, and I think a lot of post-colonial feminists would agree. But the term DOES come from African people, and it's not wrong for westerners to use it in alliance.
Is all the focus on make up and clothes? I'm all for self expression with whatever gender you identify with, but I wouldn't send my daughter to a camp with such a heavy focus on appearance or one where she was applying make up several times a day. These aren't teenagers. It seems a little age inappropriate. Can an…
No, see, that's the scary part. They're not saying he didn't stalk, shoot, an kill and unarmed teenager. They're saying he was justified and within his legal rights to do so.
It was pretty much guaranteed from the beginning, because Trayvon committed the worst crime one can commit in America:
Oh god, can we just not? Please? Because this only ever ends one way. The people with kids will turn into instant sanctimommies, all like "If you aren't a parent you will never understannnnddddddd!!!!!" and the people without kids will be all like "Why can't I apply for maternity leave when I get a new kitten, cats…
It strikes me as a bit ridiculous for a contributor on a feminist site to deride the work of a woman who is one of the most successful, beloved, and critically acclaimed authors of all time. What? Are her books too "girly?" Because they detail the lives of females, they are mere fluff and nonsense? In reality, she did…
Austen's novels aren't political or historical, the fact that they're so insular is part of what gives them their charm and what has made them so timeless. She wrote some of them over a period of twenty years, with loads of revisions - any mention of specific events of the wars would have instantly dated them.
why don't we wait until the actual trial before we second guess everything?
I kind of thought Game of Thrones WAS the girl-power version of Game of Thrones.
It's not that an adulterous woman is portrayed as a villain. It's that he always writes women as villains, as whores, as the reason why men fall. I haven't seen this show either as I really dislike his work but he is not kind in his portrayal of female characters.
Gah. This guy is clearly way too smart and reasonable for the GOP. Five years from now, he'll either be out of the field, or running around telling anyone who'll listen that the HPV vaccine turns your daughters into lesbians.
The abuse messages in Beauty and the Beast get brought up a lot and I find it a little frustrating because while I can /absolutely/ see how a message of "be patient and your captor will eventually turn out to be a swell guy" is really damaging, the assertion that Belle has this attitude ignores a big part of the plot.…
The fairy tale, if I understand correctly, was written as an allegory for young brides at the time. The beast, or the new husband, is older and can seem cruel and scary. Not to mention the girl, in the marriage situation, was also usually shipped off to a strange home and became closer with household servants (like…