Yeah, what’s with the snark? It’s a minor thing, but surely we all understand that “minor things” are how patriarchy persists. Kind of shitty to make fun of a good-natured call-out like that one.

My old job was 9-5, for real—people would remark if you stayed past 5. With an hour lunch break. And a fifteen minute break in the morning, and another one in the afternoon. I got sick time/personal days, as well as four weeks of vacation. I also got a pension. When I was not working (before 9, after 5, weekends,…

The gender of the particular doctor isn’t really the issue (though it’s sometimes an exacerbating factor)—it’s the history of how the medical profession as a whole has treated women. Surely there are attentive, wonderful male doctors, just as there are dismissive, inconsiderate female doctors. When you zoom out past…

This is super ignorant.

Sounds an awful lot like you’re just redefining “retirement.”

I’m actually crying laughing right now. “I went from paying $2500 rent on a studio to paying $1900 for a place with a roommate” is just evidence that, and I don’t mean to be rude, you are either wealthy enough or dumb enough to have a $2500/mo studio in the first place. This attitude is basically “save hundreds of…

When I was in elementary school—I couldn’t have been older than ten—I was given an in-class assignment on clouds, and ended up making my project about clouds ... and fixing the hole in the ozone layer, to my teacher’s alarm. Not all parents sanitize the world for their kids, and lots of kids are incredibly passionate…

This is a good take.

This is great analysis, thank you. I really do worry that this kind of thoughtful and productive criticism is going to get characterized as “Bernie Bros” ruining shit again, and I am not looking forward to it. Regardless of your opinion on Sanders, his run definitively showed that there is a real appetite for more…

You have to be really careful that you’re not bringing dirty boxes or roaches into your house, but yes, booze boxes are great for this. The Trader Joe’s near me gives away their wine boxes for free, and they’re the perfect size and sturdiness for packing books. It makes for boxes full of books that aren’t a totally…

I really do understand what you’re saying, and it seems impossible to discuss this on the internet in a productive way.

If someone makes an exquisite dessert and throws a shit nugget on top, you can’t really be surprised when people won’t stop talking about the turd, no matter how amazing the rest of the dessert is, you know what I mean?

I get what you’re saying, and I think there’s a pretty big difference between deliberately de-centering white women’s experiences and going out of your way to invalidate white women’s experiences. If I’m being really honest, it seems like the author has some really good and important things to say, and also seems to…

Yes, for sure. But see, here you are proving MY point, which is that there is a discussion worth having about racism/colorism and beauty standards when it comes to body hair, and that having that discussion doesn’t require going out of our way to explicitly tell white women that their issues with patriarchal beauty…

I don’t know if it’s a deliberate ploy to generate clicks or what. It’s a bad look. The unfortunate thing is that I’m very interested to see some conversations about destigmatizing body hair that de-center white women’s experiences, and also meta-conversations about who we tend to center and who we tend to exclude in…

Any struggle against it to create normalization is a step in the right direction that will make its way through all parts of society.

I dunno. When we talk about sexual harassment that women have to put up with, for example, I feel like it’s pretty shitty to do it in a way that denigrates male victims of sexual harassment. Likewise, I feel like we should be able to have a conversation about how we unfairly exclude and erase WOC when it comes to…

I’m sorry, what? Like, yes, white women not shaving their pits in January is not the most courageous thing in the world. Of course, women who are not white/cis/straight/able-bodied/educated/wealthy have it easier than those who are not.

Honestly, I think a major part of adulthood is realizing in a fundamental way that there are no responsible adults in the room, and that WE are the responsible adults. (Or irresponsible adults, depending.)