This is why people treat feminism like a joke. Eat and do all the gross things you want, but please separate feminism from that. It does not make you a feminist to make period pancakes, or bleed all over the place to make a point about periods. These are stunts to get attention. There is no dignity to any of this.

What I liked about her background characters were that they were well written and not just relegated to “Oh here’s another character”. You ended up -liking- her background characters as much as the main ones and caring about what happened to them. I also found it rather interesting that we went from the highest…

Oh, come on. Give her a fucking break. It was the 90’s when she started writing HP books. Things in terms of racial inclusion have really changed since then.

I just don’t see how it’s useful to double-down on shaming someone who fucked up, but then took the appropriate actions after the fact. I feel like if the way to overcome rape culture is to “have an honest discussion about rape,” this kind of extreme vindictiveness/persnicketiness is ultimately self-defeating. I mean,…

Who the fuck even knows

“Rape apologism manifests itself in infinite forms: we define it as any discourse that refers to sexual assault as anything other than what it is— unacceptable and appalling abuse. The statement recently shared [below] is, unfortunately, rife with apologism and we do not condone it or the violence it describes,”

Okay Nigel Farage.

I don’t know... she already used Shake it Off...

I really don’t get your point.

In my experience white people who study abroad in Africa have the grossest white saviour complex imaginable

Now that is very disingenuous. Both the US and the U.K. restrict speech (try yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre in either place). There’s a big difference between “we don’t possess freedom of speech in the UK” and “the scope of free speech protections in the UK is [not] equally as broad as those in the US.” Come on.

Or...we could stop censoring, editing, cutting to size women’s history to suit women like you.

Well they are THE BEST nation in the world, despite being top of no charts of education, happiness, earnings, poverty levels, health etc.

Yup. I was recently informed by an American on Jezebel that British people aren’t citizens, but subjects. I posted a picture of my UK passport where it explicitly declares us to be citizens, and asked her who I should write to so it could be corrected. She then confidently told me that we don’t possess freedom of…

The UK’s major immigration happened in the 1950’s. There were PoC in the UK but far far less than in the US in the 1910’s.

It was a movement mainly of Middle Class women in Edwardian Britain, it was very very white.

Fuck off.

I got told I was racist on gawker for not knowing that Fantasia from American Idol was reasonably successful in the genre of adult R&B/gospel. I explained that I’m not American so have no idea about who is popular in genres that do not cross over to the UK (our gospel/soul/R&B tends to be the American top100 stuff or…

Also Mary Wollstonecraft who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman considered marriage to be slavery. It’s not the same as being taken from your home, sold and shipped to a foreign country to work for no money but it did involve being passed a property from one man to another.

Black women were pretty much nowhere to be found in WWI England. Critizing the lack of representation of that particular group in that social cause is akin to critizing the lack of Uzbek viewpoints in popular histories of our Civil War.