hmm, you’ve destroyed my theory, because my look also involves being not good with makeup or hair. i always thought american guys were into a really polished look (and also that they don’t like that i don’t smile much). maybe we’ve just encountered a totally different set of american guys and a totally different set…

At least three of those could pretty much be rephrased as: JANE has tragically decreased her value as a decorative object by living her life as if she were a human being.

Reverse experience of your reverse experience: I’m a white American woman, have lived in Europe and Asia, and find that I’m generally considered much more attractive abroad than in the US. My theory about it is that there’s a certain highly polished beauty aesthetic that’s prevalent among white American women that…

Speaking as a VT resident, this is one reason I think it’s kind of hilarious when people are like, “Bernie’s just doing well in NH because he’s from VT.” Sure, if you’re talking about similarities between NH and VT re. both places having a lot of white people, then that’s a good argument. But if you think it’s because…

Yep. See also: studies showing that many white Americans who receive government benefits, whether student loans or EBT or Medicare or whatever, believe the programs they’re benefitting from are *literally different programs* than the ones black people receive, because what black people get is this other program named…

winner winner chicken dinner! this is it exactly — she is sincerely clueless about the economic hardship most of her generation is experiencing. and yes, there was indeed an elite manhattan prep school before yale (brearley).

The author of this article is an investment banker’s child from the UWS who is a Yale and Brearley grad — that is to say, she has lived her entire life in a bubble of extreme economic privilege. Which I think is fair game to bring into the discussion of this article, because this is the most excruciatingly…

I agree Ted Cruz is lacks all human empathy, but I think that while being a slimy, corrupt sociopath he does actually genuinely believe the Christian Dominionist shit that he was raised with, or at least the part where his batshit preacher father convinced him that God has specially chosen him to be president. Ew, Ben…

Definitely. I mean, one of the things that makes people like Cruz and Huckabee so scary is they literally believe that the apocalypse is coming soon *and that this is a positive thing.* They don’t expect or even want human existence to have any future — that’s part of the reason they’re so blase about climate change.

Yeah, me too — I’ve always worked and that’s such a huge part of my life experience. Whether rich or broke, if they don’t work, I can’t really relate to them or feel like they understand where I’m coming from.

Yeah, and even if it is all about the class struggle, um, wouldn’t the revolution have better chances of occurring if it were inclusive of the 70% of the population who aren’t white men?

Yeah, after having lived with a dude who lounged around on the couch being a half-assed philosophy grad student while I went to work every day — and for too long felt like I had to be OK with that or else I was materialistic and shallow— I finally realized that it was fine to want a guy who worked hard and could earn…

Yeah, the Berniebros pain me deeply as a feminist Bernie supporter. Their misogyny strikes me as typical of a certain subset of white male progressives who are very mansplainy and convinced their lefty cred exempts them from any need to reflect on race or gender. I’ve experienced a similar type of bro in the…

Yeah, it was cute when my born-in-1923 grandma used it in reference to her friends. From dudes, not so much.

Yes to all of this, and also the fact that the US has one of the worst STEM gender gaps in the world is a reason to focus on the specific sexism of the scientific community.

Yep, my strategy in my second pregnancy has been:

Re. the anecdotal “why,” the lower level of female rivalry seemed to be specific to the workplace. In my American workplaces I’ve periodically heard women making comments about other women along the lines of “well she’s pretty and she got tenure so young and her book got great reviews, so of course I/other people hate…

I was curious about the US/France difference too. Anecdotally, my experience as an American woman who lived in Europe (albeit not France) for a long time has been that while both places are sexist, the particular form of internalized sexism where women view all other women as inherent rivals/enemies is worse in…

When a headline starts with “Male Kansas Senator...” you just know it isn’t going anywhere good. Also, given his claims to want women cloaked in modest attire, I wonder how this dude would feel about women testifying in hijab. Wild guess: not OK, he’d begin shrieking about Sharia law.

yeah, my reaction reading this was “no, what we need is a fuck-off fund for everyone. it’s called a social safety net.”