This really made me roll my eyes — I grew up a couple towns over from Colfax and it is not this ominous, hillbilly backwater that the author is making it out to be. Not everyone is on meth, not everyone is armed and looking to prey on solo female hikers. This isn’t deliverance. I get that that isn’t quite the dramatic…

Jesus, she’s not pointing the finger at skinny women. She is speaking of the nebulous alternative of her own body. People have GOT to stop taking things so personally. Isn’t it exhausting? If she was responding to someone who slammed her for her body, we could have a point of comparison, but she’s not. She is just…

As a self enlightened individual, you have to understand the irony of the male feminist showing up to tell the ladeez to keep down the snark.

Nope. No chance at all. But at least it made her feel better, and that’s the important thing.

I don’t understand how you have a BA in international relations and yet still manage to post something this tone deaf? Surely there must be a class that teaches people how to discuss cultural differences without coming across as some sort of western savior? Perhaps my idea of international relations and what a degree…

It’s a typical narrative of wealthy white women who reduce India to a series of experiences. Same song, different tune, I’ve heard it all before. The people she encounters aren’t really people with their own hopes, dreams, and lives, they’re magical shamans on the path to her enlightenment. There are versions of the…

I am sorry, but I rolled my eyes so hard that they may have popped out of my head and are probably spiraling in a mad circle somewhere five feet east of me. The stunning insensitivity towards a foreign culture, the youthful arrogance with which a personal experience is projected to symbolize that of an entire nation…

No, not only must you complain about his orthodoxy, you should say things like: “ I had never felt consciously confronted by sexism! It was strange to discover the reality of patriarchy on the other side of the world.” and “I genuinely wanted to respect his bible belt culture, but this was too much. I’d also been…

Uff, this is such a terribly condescending article. As an Indian urban woman from a city, I find her tone patronising to say the least. I have no desire to defend the deep patriarchal mindset that most Indian men, and several women, in my country swear by - but c’mon, this is ridiculous. She goes to a semi-urban part…

Sports bra:

*snort* - wearing a crop top makes a girl feel "powerful." In patriarchy. Allrighty, then!

You know what’s really keeps me cool in hot weather? Cotton dresses and strappy sandals. I avoid chub rub by using the Monistat silicone cream, and I can wear a dress to work without my boss getting mad at me, unlike a crop top and shorts. So I’m really smh on this whole “It’s hot and I need to wear less clothing.”

Right? Maybe I am an Old but I’m on the school’s side on this one. A sliver of midriff is one thing but asking students of both genders to wear shirts is hardly a draconian rule.

I also spend a lot of time on Tumblr

I understand that the administration has said that revealing clothing is distracting to your male counterparts. And that there’s been pushback for boys sexualizing females because of the clothes they wear. But aren’t the girls also sexualizing themselves?

Crop tops fine but some of those are just bras. You cannot just wear a bra to school. That is inappropriate for almost every occasion. School dress codes seem weird, like you can wear sweats but crop tops are unprofessional, how does that work? Like if there was a smart/casual type dress code I would get it as a…

Oh it’s talked about, but it’s just painted in the form of a book or movie about a dude’s fucked-up relationship with his father and how he goes on a deep, spiritual journey in order to reconcile the emotional trauma it caused him because like you said, we’re supposed to believe that men are strong and us ladies are…

Jezebel writers suck at taking criticism.

Thanks, DM me and I’ll give you my address so you can forward the extra $1,000 for each way every time I fly.

So someone faces a different set of issues than you and your response is to say “oh boo hoo”? How are their problems somehow less valid than yours?