I think that any movement requires a good deal of self-reflection.
I do not think "the problem is white women" is necessarily the most constructive way to preface that self-reflection. Just my opinion.

If you're going to make "it's worse for other people in other places," I expect you to immediately follow it up with HOW it's worse, WHERE it's worse, WHO it's worse for and maybe even go into the WHY and how you can make a difference. Otherwise you're not doing anything helpful. Talk about why XYZ is "worse" or "more…

Annie Lamott talked about this once on Facebook, and I loved the way she put it: "Pain is pain." (Or maybe it was "suffering is suffering"?)

Hmm, there's a lot to be said about this. On one hand, I agree that mainstream feminism focuses more on issues that primarily effect upper middle class white women. I remember reading an article on xoJane where a woman of color complained about the lack of intersectionality in Emma Watson's speech and the article was…

To be fair, its Game of Thrones. Horrible shit happens to literally everyone. White, black, tall, short, man, woman, dire wolf. The entire premise of the show is "everything sucks for everyone all the time and only bad things happen"

I never understand the "other people have it way worse" argument when it comes to feminism, racism, etc.
I'm always like: Great! If ours is not such a big problem then there's no reason we shouldn't be able to address it in tandem with the other "bigger" problems. Now let's get to work!

actually, i am side eyeing even more because GIRL THE SHIT THAT HAPPENS TO WOMEN IN THE SHOW YOURE FUCKING FAMOUS FOR ISN'T EXACTLY MADE UP, BRUH.

Oh noooo girl. Nooo.

It was not a good apology, considering it never actually contains an apology. Is it really that hard to actually apologize that we accept someone hemming and hawing and never getting to the "I am sorry"?

Oh, this was me too. Like the flashback in 30 Rock where Liz Lemon realizes she gave the bullies worse than she got. They'd be coming at me with like "Your hair is ugly" and I'd be firing back with personal stuff like "Yeah, go ask your new housekeeper/stepmom now that your dad left your mom for her". I am not proud…

I was bullied a lot and I only hate one person specifically - because she paid a guy to sexually assault me, and that crosses the line from "kids being jerks" into "OMG you're a fucking psychopath".

Good. For. Her.

no, sorry, I disagree. He and his friends caused her years of anxiety and eating disorders. I'm still not convinced he remembered her when he asked her out. As I said below, as women we're conditioned to put everyone else's feelings, wants, needs, desires - especially men's - ahead of our own. I'm thrilled she put…

The mature response is never to ignore shitheads. That's why they get away with being shitheads.

If people hadn't ignored these people picking on her, usually with the line "Ignore it.", then she wouldn't have to have put up with it.

The mature response is to make the world a better place. And if you can do that by…

Could we maybe not refer to her current attractiveness as a "transformation" from before? Isn't that the exact kind of rhetoric that somehow reinforces idea that the bully was right? How about this—she looked perfectly fine before, and she looks perfectly fine now, and only one of those versions of her happened to…

Other people thought that posts along the lines of "but she's not even that hot" are totally fucking ridiculous.

While some people are suggesting that what Manning did was... self-serving

He had the opportunity to not torment her every day for 3 yrs. He got stood up for dinner, she got tormented for 3 yrs. I know whose side I'm on.

Adolescence is hard, but really bro,

"Every day for three years" is not some isolated childhood bullying incident. That's deliberate harassment from the time they were about 13 to 16 years old.
He had the opportunity to apologize when they bumped into each other a few years later. He didn't. He had the opportunity to apologize with his first email &…