The last meal descriptions always depress me the most. Here, have some strawberry cake, I made your favorite because we are killing you tonight.

I was literally just at Dubai Mall, and, during the call to prayer, hijab-wearing women didn’t skip a beat and kept looking at clothing at H&M.

I’m no apologetic for the oppression of women by religion, but the arab world (which this magazine caters to, not just Saudi Arabia) has some diversity in terms of what women are allowed to do. Your argument assumes that covering from head to toe is required of all women who might be interested in reading this…

I’m reading a website filled with celebrity gossip and sex and fashion in a country where the president is a rapist. It’s not clear where you’re writing from, but it’s pretty likely that it’s a lousy place to be a woman as well. Middle Eastern women are capable of navigating these choices themselves, just as we are. 

But what those women wear behind closed doors in the company of other women would blow your fucking mind if you think their public garb is representative of their whole wardrobe.

Fashion mags are glorified catalogs. And Saudi is a huge luxury goods market.

yeah. i am sick of that argument. The right wing uses it all the time to try to shut down arguments about things they disagree with, as if people can’t care about more than one thing at a time.

Man you’ve obvi never been to Dubai. or Beirut. or Cairo. Or Istanbul. That all have thriving fashion industies. But all arabs are the same, we’re all al-Qaeda. Yep.

What? That doesn’t make any sense. There are ALWAYS going to be other issues that are more important than fashion, and that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be writing about fashion. You’re using a flawed argument. https://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/faq-why-are-you-concentrating-on-x-when-y-is-so-muc…

Say they didn’t air it and cut to a black screen during Tribal Council and just tell us that Varner was voted off. There would be “What really happened?” theories all over the Web. They didn’t do the traditional vote to get rid of Varner; everyone was so upset that Probst just asked for a quick hand vote.

America is so fucked right now because the Government has turned the keys to the kingdom over to corporations.

Ha! Great point.

Oh, I thought it was put together by this firm:

I was going to say (as someone who has worked in advertising my whole career) that this seems exactly like an idea a client would come up with.

Apparently, this ad was created by Pepsi’s in-house “content creation arm,” because Wieden+Kennedy or BBDO or a real ad agency wouldn’t be so fucking busy navel gazing that they’d let this one past the goalposts.

I am not looking forward to all the “New York is so terrible and only stupid assholes who wanna gloat about living in New York live there and haha I have a big house while you live in a closet that costs a million dollars” comments that flood this site whenever New York is mentioned.

Corollary: the people who tell me “I like to visit NYC, but I wouldn’t want to live there” are super fucking annoying. I just tell them “we don’t want you to live here either, so that works.”

I am 100000000000000% over thinkpieces, but the rate at which people read them and share them tells me that you and I are in the minority. Truly, I’m shocked at how many essays and blogs there are out there that cover the EXACT SAME TERRITORY that are none the less wildly popular.

Why I’m Leaving New York essays are the most annoying pieces of writing to me. It’s a place. Live here or don’t. Literally nobody cares, and your personal decision about whether to live here or not does not make or break the city.