Malala also has some great Instagram banter. She and her husband did a story where they read tweets about them, and one of Malala’s picks was something like, “Everyone said don’t be a feminist because boys won’t like you, and then Malala and her hot husband said ‘that’s not true.’” The woman doesn’t take herself…

So women aren’t workers? Letting 46.6% of the labor force make their own economic and bodily decisions IS pro-worker, Bernie. FFS

Pregnant people will absolutely die horrible, painful and bloody deaths because of these laws — not because they will self-inflict abortions, but because doctors won’t save the life of the mother if it means ending a pregnancy. All you have to do is look at countries like Ireland and Poland to see how this plays out.…

Every time you lead a Dirt Bag with Kardashian news, I open the article and scroll straight past the lead story to get to the non-Kardashian items. This has been the case for the last three DBs in a row. Before the Oscars provided us with a brief Kardashian respite, it was true for six DBs in a row. The fact that I…

I think you’re really reaching with these comparisons. Netflix didn’t just “fudge” the timeline on the show; they completely faked it, with Christine herself narrating. “A few days” after flatlining and needing an emergency C section, she’s shown swanning around her house with the baby, wearing a mini dress and…

I mean yay for you, but every single one of those things happened to me personally and it wasn’t even an exhaustive list (the blowjob guy and the girl who smashed my windows were white, but nice try). I worked in the Tenderloin — I spent 9 hours/ day there instead of just passing through it like you do. I also didn’t…

That’s fair, I’m happy to say nobody ever pulled a gun on me there either...

Are you a woman though? I worked in the Tenderloin for two years and was sexually harassed on a daily basis. People on drugs trying to touch my hair, strange men asking me for blowjobs, men pissing on the bus stop at 6 p.m. so I had to wait halfway up the block during the evening commute, a girl on drugs who smashed…

“Sure, women can send the first message, but it is largely more of an invitation to send her a message and win her over.” What’s your basis for saying that? It seems like a stereotype to me and I don’t think it fair to read into women’s thoughts like that.

We also pay for it with emotional labor. We listen, we engage, we take an interest in your lives. Weird, I know. I have had SO MANY men I barely know pour their hearts out to me because they had nobody else they could talk to about anything non-superficial. Toxic masculinity is a bitch.

Counterpoint: how old are you? Millennial men absolutely do not woo, court or do anything else you’re describing. (Which I’m not complaining about for the record, just noting.) I’m in my early 30s and don’t know a single American couple that got together following the man’s pursuit. On the other hand, I moved to…

I do know how those women feel. This is a classic example of “when someone reveals himself to you, accept what he says.” Diaz himself says he left a trail of emotional destruction — complete with objective details such as a broken engagement — so why do you refuse to believe him? Because he’s a genius writer and you…

For everyone saying he “just cheated” on his girlfriends... read the piece. He was borderline sociopathic in the way he treated just about every woman he ever came across. My heart breaks for him and his childhood trauma, but it does not justify his actions as an adult.

A lousy boyfriend is one who is late all the time and doesn’t help do the dishes after dinner. Junot Diaz is a serial emotional abuser who destroyed people’s lives.

Dude read the piece, seriously. I would rather be hit in the face by a partner (which I have been) than experience the shit he did to his partners. His cheating, gaslighting and ghosting was other-level.

Read the piece before you jump all over her. He absolutely abused these women emotionally. He cheated on, gaslighted and/or ghosted every woman he “loved” for YEARS. I’m sure it took some of them years to recover from that treatment. Plenty of women are raped and don’t destroy lives the way he did. And the way he…

The maddening thing is that so many journalists don’t even realize how little they know about law — and they don’t want to know. Vox especially writes some insanely superficial “analysis” of Supreme Court cases. I applied for a job there as a reporter specializing in legal affairs (I was a journalist who then attended…

This is not a thing unless she plans to never return to America. In which case, good for her.

Counterpoint: my “washed-up” J-school professors were brilliant editors who savaged my work and made me better than most of my “learned-it-on-the-job” colleagues by Day 1 of my first real reporting job (as judged by my boss, not my own self delusions). The reason? My colleagues didn’t have Pulitzer Prize winners…

Yes. Also Orthodox Judaism. Basically any culture that imposes modesty constraints on women but not men (notice I said culture and not religion because if you want to be really textual about it, Muslim men are supposed to dress modestly too, not just women). I’m also not crazy about any religion that separates men and…