I mean, I think that's the important part of this story. Teachers get made and sometimes they yell. I've definitely told kids, "I don't like you right now because your behavior is really annoying." Kids are annoying and sometimes they are assholes. I've definitely been told be kids, "I'm going to call my sister to…

I mean, this kid could very well have been acting like a total asshole (it happens constantly). But this is a patently inappropriate response, because teachers shouldn't be yelling sexist insults at anyone. It models an entirely inappropriate behavior and sends the message that calling someone a "slut" when she's…

Fuck this noise. As teachers, it's our responsibility to model appropriate emotional responses at all times. That's why we try not to scream anything at kids - because that's not an appropriate adult response. Does that happen 100% of the time? No, but this teacher has modeled that this kind of sexist, shaming…

Sounds like there was so much there everyone got a second helping.

The already-in fraternity brothers ask the sorority members to come over for some hazing. Even though the women are the ones doing the hazing, these are rituals that are sponsored by the fraternity. Bro calls, saying, "Wanna come haze some pledges? Here's what you have to do," and the women come over to the frat and…

I think you have to look at spreads like this in the context of how women are always portrayed instead of in a vacuum. I also think we can consider how professional women might want to be portrayed in a widely circulated magazine and website. Yes, maybe this is one of the singular instances when the participants were…

I found this super relatable and the abortion bit in the sketch ironically mocking the perception that women are crazy flippant about abortions. What is it that you don't think is funny in the two bits?

As the person below you wrote, you've gotten the vision of feminism down. Glad to have you onboard, ally! What you need now is to understand the reality and history of feminism. I suggest reading Dr. Angela Davis' Women, Race + Class, which will highlight why the feminism movement for "equality" was actually one that…

From her perspective, I truly suspect that this seemed to be her only option. That's what I mean by the desperation of poverty - technically, I suppose there's always infinite choices, but for all realistic purposes I doubt she thought there was another option.

I don't think the participants owe readers anything, but I do think when women are consistently portrayed in these highly sexualized states - in a professional profile, no less - women have a right to criticize that portrayal because it really is a representation of the rest of us. Particularly in a women's lifestyle…

LORD. YES. People think women aren't funny not because of their humor, but because of the way they're portrayed as fucking ornaments. That's also why some dudes get so many when female comics are outspoken and loud..."but I thought you were just hear to be pretty and look fuckable - why you do talk?"

I think it's the same mentality of Victoria's Secret ads: Yes, they're targeted towards heteronormative ideas of women, but reinforce the way women are supposed to look in the eyes of men. Everything else in Cosmo is about how to have sex for your man so this fits pretty well.

Interesting points. I agree that music seems different, maybe it's because it's a less visual medium combined with - as you said - the influence of Black music in the American mainstream for so long that the origins of the music are fairly muddled. I don't know either! Great engaging with you though.

Use these use these! National sex ed standards - and pass 'em to ya friends: http://www.futureofsexed.org/documents/josh…

I think you can see the major difference between these two families in the pictures.

What is part of the problem? I'm not sure what your demonstrative is pronouning :).

But if it turns out that performing them to a public audience is a dick move, I'd rather not do it. It'd be a lot of effort to go to to prove that I can be an asshole.

Wrestling is the WORST. WI think it's different because while the act of deprivation is the same, it's not as inextricably gendered or tied in with social value as policing women's bodies is. But while the fires are different, the smoke is the same and I think it should be treated a lot more seriously than it is, the…

I wondered that too. It didn't sound like a learned body policing measure to fit in with a narrow and strict view of how to value oneself through one's body. If wonder if this also means that treatment would be different, though I have to think it would be very similar. I certainly don't think it is less relevant or…

Great idea! Ban all guns.