I love this more because you've posted about your mother-in-law before and it sounds like she thinks this story isn't as romantic as I do...although when I first read it I WAS imagining a burly 40-something deadbeat operating a school theater in a wife-beater :)

Stories like are what makes me angry when conservatives argue that poor people in America are fine because they're not starving. When I find out McDonald's has cancer-causing ingredients in their food (and I doubt this is the only chemical like that), I have the privilege to choose to eat something different. Not…

How is being so entitled to think that a professor should change her grading system a mental health issue? If you have social anxiety that means you can't be around girls, you don't fix that issue by crying about GENDER discrimination.

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His anxiety might be legit, but his entitlement to sue and think that the reason he failed was due to discrimination because his special scared-of-girls feelings weren't the #1 consideration of the professor is pretty MRA-aligned.

Um, you seem to have misread that the class was all women - OF COURSE they want more men, why wouldn't they want the perspective of the greatest gender to help them fix all their issues on women and gender studies?

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YOU are the one that said race is an accumulation of experiences. I agreed with you. Because it is, and so is gender. Black women don't have the same experiences of Blackness and femaleness across history and cultures. Our understandings of ourselves vary within the frameworks of race and gender. You could say race is…

Because you aren't a valid person because you aren't just like meeeeeeeeeee and I am the only experience that matters!

THANK YOU. I feel like the "I am a [x] because it is true." is VERY difficult for many people to grasp. It's not "I am an [x] because you decided it was true."

Sex and gender are not the same thing. Race and gender are more similar (in terms of being an accumulation of experiences).

THANK YOU for this. I need to stock up my arsenal of data before going to battle on this issue!

Perhaps you aren't meaning to tone police me, but you are and it's insulting. I'm not sure how you read indignation in my comment. I assure you I am a reasonable person who is interesting in having a rational discussion and you don't need to imply that I'm too emotional to bear listening to - let's talk about content…

Ew why did you link this! I'm on my work comp! WAHH!

Where have you seen that statistic? You mean you've read that somewhere? Can you cite it, or did you just remember it? Is it from the Wikipedia article that cites studies that are 10+ years old, or somewhere better?

No it's so good! I've eaten there! #yeahimfamous

Right? But I feel like having gender segregated bathrooms, using gendered pronouns...all those trappings of a system are more destructive to gender recognition and equality than someone using the t-word or the c-word. It teaches us to internalize gender binaries.

Oh I see - thanks for linking. I wonder if it matters that those sources are between 13 and 26 years old. I can't imagine it would affect the rate that much - still seems super high. I will continue checking those out.

When people tell you who they are, believe them!

THE WIRE.