“fast metabolisms” and little straight noses, perfect teeth and big breasts.

It’s certainly true that some feminists have spoken clumsily and that those feminists were older and white (Gloria Steinem & Madeleine Albright). And they apologized, profusely, after the implications of what they had said were made clear to them. They apologized sincerely too—not just saying, “I didn’t mean that” or…

Thank you! Yes! A simple diet tonic water and lime is delicious! It scratches my “I would love a chardonnay” itch without the fuzzy numbness of alcohol. And some of the non-alcoholic beers are actually drinkable (Beck’s and Krombacher). I will try the bitters + soda.

Oh Shit! Here we are in the middle of a bias vagina versus bias skin color bias debate. And in the meantime, SHIT. IS. GOING. DOWN!

I will be borrowing you “skin color/vagina thing” turn of phrase. Kudos!

The ultimate in mansplaining...Explaining how you just don’t understand that your clit IS in your vagina. Explaining that in fact you DID cum when you didn’t.

The words say “stand by your man,” but the pictures and rhetoric say “stand behind your man.” Hillary was too literal.

I hear you my cunta crona!

Don’t we need to use the possessive? Wilmore said “my y “n***a.” Do women say “my bitch?” When I say “my cunt” I mean my cunt, which I love to talk to and about but is not the point here. I don’t know. I think there are a lot of women who refer to Hils and other women as cunts and bitches and mean the slur. How can…

The year I graduated from U of M, Michael Moore was giving the commencement address at the big, widely attended undergraduate ceremony. I was tucked up in the grad school watching Roger Smith get an honorary degree. If that doesn’t capture the corporate “market to the masses and pay homage to the masters” approach to…

I feel so sad for the contestants, or any person, who has pursued this approach to weight loss. I hope that the results are disseminated, and that this means the end of program approaches like The Biggest Loser. “Professionals” who continue to prescribe or offer any sort of treatment that includes crash diets and…

Thank you for that clarification. Stars to you!

You are so welcome. I was inspired by what Rebecca Skloot accomplished with her writing. She deserves a lot of credit for weaving the very personal side of the story into the more sterile terrain of biomedical research and ethics. Some of the researchers described in the book deserve to feel the sting of judgment for…

The book does a really good job of spelling out the issues. For example, the doctor (George Gey), who developed the HeLa cells from the sample taken from H. Lacks’s tumor, shared the cells widely with any researcher who needed them to pursue a program of research. Gey never asked for payment for the cells. He did ask…

Can we use this moment as an opportunity to start taking gender apart completely? Doesn’t every cis-gendered person have some traits that don’t completely conform to the gender with which they identify? Why not deliberately refer to this man as “ma’am” and pointing out to him the things that are gender non-conforming…

Has anyone seen my mid-rise dance pant? Is it in the laundry? I guess I’ll have to wear my full-rise dance pant. (wah-wahh horn plays softly).

A. Fucking. Men.

I haven’t had sex for so long, my gyno told me I get to reset and start again at 0. That’s my story.

A million stars for you. I am glad you were able to leave and that you have so clearly described the situation and the oppressive silence around it.

Only a sister wife can braid your hair like that.