if you don't win the pissing contest, I have lost any residual faith I have in humanity.

Buy not butt.

Yeah, it's unfortunately rampant in a capitalist society. unfortunately we're almost all doing some sort of advertising with what wear, what our reusable bags say, who we butt from, what we deem acceptable etc. 😐 I agree that that is a bit more insidious than a shirt or bag, and would have preferred a focus on…

Haha. My Barbies were everything! They were nuclear physicists, spies, diplomats from other countries, kindergarten teachers, and I think I once had a dictatorship over the trolli dolls. But, I was just a child, how tyrannical could she really have been over the oppressed trollis, right? 😉 In retrospect, that…

Exactly. It was a TOY. My peers had more havoc to wreak on my self esteem than my toys.

I loved Barbie and somehow I managed to grow up to be a feminist, not have an eating disorder, and be enthused about math AND science. I wonder how that could have possibly happened? Could I perhaps have gleaned some positivity from a doll that can be anything and isn't just pretty, but was president, and astronaut,…

Yes! Finally! My search is over! I have finally found myself the perfect fella! Oh, Ken!

I've been a long time reader of Jezebel, but never a commenter (what for how I make kinja work good?), and I will comment for this. I know it's from yesterday, and idk how many commenters will revisit, but can we make a freaking big deal about this beyond our own aghast moral outrage? Can we try to get some hashtags…