I work in development, and the “places to worship” bit got a raised eyebrow. In my experience, people living in abject poverty don’t ask for churches, or temples, or mosques. They ask for schools, clinics, wells, training programs, cash, etc. Anyone that tells you the people requested a church usually wanted to build…

The Democratic party had best do something because right now it’s doing nothing and it’s professed care about PoC on social issues doesn’t match what it does for PoC when it comes to economic issues. I don’t need politicians who say the right things about civil rights then allow employers to screw me in ways that doesn…

“Who in the hell is this Democrat-come-lately to scold Democrats on all they’ve done wrong?”

I’m glad someone is talking about it... I have so many period problems that I feel like I can’t talk about lest I be cast as some sickly, wimpy woman. The more women talking about women’s health issues, the more seriously it will be taken by the medical community.

Not Lena’s biggest fan, but endometriosis is no fucking joke. I appreciate the fact that she is very open about it, because the attitude of “just shut up and deal with it” when women have extremely heavy periods/awful cramps is still too prevalent.

Yes; I had no objection to the music. Nor, in fact, am I generally one to call appropriation as mostly I believe that global culture enriches through art, inspiration, and exchange. Where it feels particularly hard is a culture on the verge of extinction. We lose Berber languages, every day, just as we do Native…

I don’t know. Somehow the psuedo Middle Eastern/North African/Berber (referring to certain tattoo designs, here) veils, jewelry, and facial tattoos were off-putting to me. It is an actual ethnic background from which some of us come, and I do not throw around ‘appropriation’ a lot but anyone with the smallest…

Everyone who insisted Kim faked the robbery can queue up here, I have your crow. Eat up!

He’s mentally ill. And he’s certainly more talented than Beyonce.

People like to pretend beauty privilege isn’t a thing, but it empirically is. Better looking people, including people who use make-up to look good, are generally treated better, get higher raises, and hired more often than those who don’t. The fashion industry, looking the make-up sub-industry is largely apart of that.

How is femininity and makeup equivalent?

Lets stop pretending that women who wear makeup get any kind of real shit thrown on them. women who don’t wear makeup are denied jobs, promotions, and sometimes institutionalized (depressed women are sometimes not released from hospitals until they do their makeup because to not wear makeup is viewed as a symptom)…

Could we maybe also drop the idea that if you don’t wear make up you don’t care about how you look or that you don’t care about yourself in general? Can’t we just make the choices we want and not worry about the different choices someone else makes? I know I know crazy. But I don’t wear makeup. I just never have.…

My mom did the caring about your appearance shows you respect others thing too, and I’ve pretty much rejected that and not taught that to my daughter. We owe the people around us to be clean and tidy (not letting long hair trail in food, get in other people’s faces, etc) but that’s about it. No one is owed a pleasant…

I will try to reply honestly and to the best of my ability despite knowing full well that you probably won’t read all of it, and I’ll get a reply something along the lines of ‘nuhuh, you’re stupid’ or ‘you hate her because you’re a sexist.’ 

The thing is that people in developed countries take up far more resources than those in developing countries. It’s not just fossil fuels. It’s our whole lifestyle. Better get that new Iphone! Who cares about the terrible conditions the people who mine and make the phones? Not to mention all the habitat that has to be…

I really find it funny in a way. The best way to see how silly people are is to compare how they treat animals versus people.

Funny. I saw a bunch of people commenting on this on another article. But I think it is a really good point that it is disturbing we keep pumping out more humans knowing about overpopulation. Our whole economic system is built on buying useless crap, and we need young people to buy and make it. So in the end keeping a…

I disagree. I honestly do not think that Erdely should ever be able to get work as a journalist again. She wanted to write a sensationalist article and she did, without doing her due diligence, and in doing so I genuinely think that she set back the national discourse about campus sexual assault.