Fortunately, praise is not a limited resource. We can write to all three senators’ offices and thank them, along with the 48 Democratic and independent senators who also voted no.

What proportion of women do you think are TERFs or even know what that means?

Do it! You may not always get a chance to work at home and treat your head as though you’re the only one who owns it. I’m 48 and have streaks of pink in my brunette hair (they’re sort of hidden in the under-layers near my nape), and I adore it. It’s not at all ridiculous if you love it — and for what it’s worth, I get…

How appalling that his “family jewels” mattered more than, you know, his actual, existing family.

This is such tired nonsense. How do you even know, dude? You aren’t privy to what female socialization means, how it shapes us, how it’s expressed.

Here’s a very good reason to speak out and not simply “stop the nasty with you”: People speaking out against racism on social media reduces the use of racist slurs:

That stood out to me too. How sad that the American press can’t call attacks on women for being women hate crimes or see them as their own misogynistic brand of violence. Hmm, we’ll just never know what it is that makes the overwhelming majority of murderers who kill out of sexual compulsion male and their victims…

I’m not sure I can take any list that calls New Orleans’ culture “average,” Minneapolis’ “good,” and Anaheim’s “great” all that seriously. The crime, weather, and health stats seem spot-on, but how are they defining culture?

I completely agree — but a female candidate faces something that male candidates don’t when going for likeability and relatability: the perception that she isn’t serious enough to lead. To a large extent, Clinton just can’t afford to let people in and unbend a little because if she does, she risks being cast in…

I agree with you: She doesn’t come off as “just folks” the way so many other candidates have, and both parties are littered with the empty husks of once-promising candidates who failed for whatever reason to be likeable or relatable.

I didn’t see this as directly body-shaming, precisely, but when you’re telling 8- to 12-year-olds how to “draw the eye,” you’re implicitly saying there’s something you’re trying to draw the eye to or from. Eyes shouldn’t even be on you at that age. I mean, yeah, we know they are — very few of us don’t have at least…

“Everyone’s pretty in her own way” has grown so threadbare to me. It suggests the unspoken corollary — “and being pretty matters” — and that just seems so tired and old-fashioned now.

I think there is a time to discuss women’s issues and a time to discuss men’s issues.

They were comparing Hepburn to Nyong’o and saying that both were like Eliza Doolittle, which...okay, that’s stupid as hell because neither of them were like the fictional character. But they weren’t comparing Nyong’o to Doolittle.

The weird thing is that Lupita didn’t even have this adversarial response to it that the Jez article suggests; she just shared a picture of her and her stylist’s actual inspiration. Nowhere is there any indication she was offended at a comparison to Hepburn or that she thought “nah” about it.

By the way, her “frighteningly thin” physique had a lot to do with having nearly starved to death as a child, leaving her with a lifetime of health problems that made gaining fat and muscle difficult. By all accounts, she ate; she just couldn’t gain. If designers loved her for her tiny frame, that says some concerning…

Thank you. I thought the same thing. No one calls an OB/GYN a “pap smear doctor” or a cardiologist an “angioplasty doctor” because of individual procedures they perform; why is abortion different?

I have seen sharks with more animated expressions.

Thank you for recognizing that there is another group aside from gay men who aren’t generally enraptured by cheerleaders in skimpy outfits.

Even if there are some parents who should take better care of their kids’ diets, is that “everything that’s wrong with America?” An overweight kid? Really? It’s not a problem with crumbling infrastructure, the rise of paranoia that’s led us down dark paths of torture, racism or sexism or any other kind of -ism, the…