I'm failing to see why it's relevant that she was single. If you mean to say she is survived by children and not a partner, just say she is survived by her children. The inclusion of her marital status stinks of some archaic, 50s-era "journalism". Gosh Jezebel, have you never read Susan Brownmiller?

Please stop missing the point and actually READ what I wrote.

You want to protect our children? With logic? You know what would be really great? Not shoveling into the heads of the collective US child how to logically devalue life so damn much. Have you any idea how detrimental it is to our psyches that we live in a meritocracy where income is so grossly unequal, where we exert…

Not a little fucking opportunistic, eh? Holy shit. Turning 20 bullet-riddled little kids into a sales pitch.

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No, I feel you. I get really squicked when folks tout our high divorce rate as evidence of how we're ruining the sanctity of marriage. Do we really want to go back to when divorce was incredibly hard to obtain? My mother divorced her first abusive husband (not my pops) in the early 70s and it was 1] absolutely…

For me it's irritation with how quickly we are to minimize the ways in which our culture normalizes violence against certain groups of people by designating the few who take that violence to extreme levels as "outliers", but *only* when the people they commit violence against are under a certain age, over a certain…

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This statement applies to those who have retorted to thecanto's comment with "this isn't about Afghanis or Irawis" or "this is about American soldiers." There is always a universal human toll to war, inclusive of both/all sides, and to deny the other side as relevant, to paint their deaths as tangential, is to…

It hurts my heart to read folks expressing that Jezebel is usually "anti-soldier"—this only a few days after an article providing perspective on the efforts of female soldiers to succeed in rigorous training programs that for so long have excluded them. Now, I don't believe feminism is about fighting for women in…

Yes! I use it to block vacation pictures from the owning-class 21-year-olds I know from college (good lord being a first-generation working-class 28-year-old attending a private women's college that used to be a seminary/finishing school = so much wanting to punch all of the pretty, privileged little faces). I have to…

Seems like a good teaching moment about trans folks. Kid has great perspective and seeing her wield it for a more trans-inclusive perspective would be a slam dunk. Never too early to be an ally!

Because heaven forbid panhandling be easier.

Well I don't know what the economy is like on your side of the planet, but your classist drive-by projection of remarkable contempt was a real thrill to read. Thanks so much for your insight.

Yanno what always fascinates and repulses me: the total lack of inflection one hears when women speak in front of large groups about shit in which they're total experts. Listen to a woman defend her dissertation, talk about what she does for a living, or explain the meaning of a word she uses with authority—it's all…

Yup, 8/10 here, too. I would ask myself "does this sound vaguely condescending?" and answer accordingly.

Singular they was once totes acceptable: [en.wikipedia.org] [www.nytimes.com] [www.visualthesaurus.com]

This is so fucking patronizing.

You don't seem to understand what " as a group" means.

"Why can't they fucking talk right!?!"