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Yes, but it’s still disproportionately women’s fashion that gets criticized. Like WAY disproportionate.

Yes! Yes.

I know. I read GFY for YEARS before I got bored with it. It’s still worth talking about how this reinforces the dynamic where people in our culture are conditioned to automatically assess women’s appearances, but not men’s. (And yes, I know many of these blogs talk about men’s fashion, too, but it is still vastly

Critiquing her clothes is, I agree, better than critiquing her face or her body, but it’s still something that men don’t really have to deal with. Women who want to be successful actors don’t really get to opt out of fashion, but plenty of successful male actors skate by in standard tuxedos and jeans & t-shirts, and

Munn’s call-out was overblown and unfairly targeted and kind of eye-roll-y, I agree, but fashion criticism like this definitely has its problematic aspects that are worth discussing. It is true that women’s appearances, in our culture, are up for public critique in a way that men’s are not. I don’t think that that

Yesyesyes!

Jezebel has some WEIRD, WEIRD dynamics around this stuff. But yeah, there are sane progressives here who don’t want to just aggressively re-litigate 2016 and gnash their teeth about “bernie bros”.

HA. Yes, Scott Brown. Clearly I was distracted.

I’m with you. Warren and Sanders are at the top of my list.

The Buttigieg piece that ran in Current Affairs really turned me off of him, and I’d definitely recommend the read. I initially loved the fact that he comes across as a younger, more in-touch Bernie Sanders, and is an incredibly compelling public speaker. But CA pointed out that he doesn’t really have much of a track

Yes! She is great. I had the privilege of volunteering for her campaign for Senate and watching (in person!) her debate with Scott Walker, and she is just wonderful. She's my #1.

NOW is the time to demand the best of our politicians. Early in the primary season. Later on, we need to consolidate support around the nominee, but right now? When the Democratic platform for 2020 is still taking shape and the race is still broad? This is EXACTLY when we should be pushing the DNC and politicians to

I agree, which is why Warren is my #1 choice, and Bernie is my #2.

God bless Cardi B. I do wish Bernie was younger, but he’s a damn sight better than a lot of our other options at this point. (I’M TALKING TO YOU, JOE. GO ENJOY A QUIET RETIREMENT.)

You don’t have to have sympathy for people who have committed monstrous crimes in order to understand that it’s unjust and immoral for the state to torture and/or execute people, and to maintain institutions where violence like this is permitted. It’s wrong, regardless of whether or not you feel warm and fuzzies for

As a short man”

Don’t reply to trolls.

Fair enough! :-)

People are, in fact, allowed to point out minor issues of sexism that aren’t necessarily the WORST THING. If our choices are to speak out only against the MOST MAJOR INJUSTICES or pipe down and keep quiet, I’m not sure that’s going to help much.

The thing is, the original tweet doesn’t suggest that the show is fundamentally sexist or irredeemably PrObLeMaTiC, and it doesn’t call for a boycott or anything remotely like that. They literally just said “hey, come on, don’t use that outdated language, we know you’re better than that.” It’s the gentlest possible