It's amazing to me how those topics about racism ALWAYS end up turning into "your country is more racist than mine!" All of that mixed with good old fashioned xenophobia of course. Isn't that wonderful? "Oh yeah, those fucking Germans, I lived in Germany for two years and all the people I met were so racist". Those…

Thank you. Can we save our outrage for actual outrageous stuff? Jesus.

"You don't hear that much about women having relationships with women outside of Sappho, though". Well that's because who wrote history? Who reported it? Men.

I disagree. Criticized? Sure, when it's about those religions as institutions.

Yep. Exactly what I thought. Women just can't win. I have to say everytime I watch one of those British panel shows (and so many are great), my favourite ones being Would I Lie to You and QI, I'm super aware of the pressure the women (and often the sole woman) invited on the show is under, to be funny in order to…

Actually Le Figaro is a big fan of Obama. "Conservative" newspaper by French standards, not American ones. So they're pretty much in line with what Obama stands for. That's why the idea that the newspaper is trying to make it easier for Hollande is utterly ridiculous (well, besides, anything else): Le Figaro would…

I completely agree with you. Is there anybody who thinks Lupita isn't absolutely gorgeous? Because I haven't met them so far. Even people (in my circle of friends) who don't tend to be attracted to black women (for whatever reason) acknowledge that they can't take their eyes off her. She is, by all definition,…

Thank you. This whole thread is full of people patting themselves on the back for feeling "guilty". Which amounts to them saying that they're fantastic human beings who have so much empathy for past events and that's why they feel guilty for events they've never participated in.

Oh great, linking to a website called electronicintifada, which is, I'm sure, totally impartial (hence the name) and is totally not trying to push a particular agenda.

They're called "Première Dame" but there's actually no legal status. Which makes things tricky. She has people advising her on her attitude to adopt, clothes to wear when she has to attend official ceremonies, stuff like that, but all the previous presidents (up until François Hollande) were married and their wives…

I agree. But why do they always have to be princesses? I know that Disney uses lot of European tales and in those stories there's often a prince and a princess. But it's not like Disney hasn't made major changes to an original story before, for example The Hunchback of Notre Dame (is Esmeralda considered a princess…

THIS. Why waste each other's time? Why pursue someone you know is not on the same page? I've been on too many dates (online dating) where I've realized that the guy was absolutely not interested in a relationship. Even though it's clearly stated in my profile that that's what I want. I'm sure there are tons of women…

Here we go again. Every fucking time there's an article about Europe on Jezebel, commentators always end up playing this wonderful game of "your country is more racist than my country" or in other words "I'm better than you".