I think prostitution should be legal. And I also think that if a politician is good at his job and isn’t doing anything illegal, who cares if he’s banging hookers or is unfaithful to his wife? I also think people can be great at their jobs and awful in their personal lives and that electorate should only care about…

“This person” is the adorable and hilarious, Jack Whitehall!

There’s a double standard here, too. White musicians wear Che Guevara t-shirts so much it’s a cliche and nobody thinks it’s much more than a fashion statement, but Beyoncé puts her dancers in black berets and suddenly she’s a full-on Black Panther? It’s ridiculous.

The fact that it was barely satire tho.

Canal? Banal?

Something about his language bespeaks exactly that mindset to me.

Are you implying I didn’t read the article and immediately jumped to the comment section to make a tidal joke??

This is the quintessential GG response. Well done for inadvertently demonstrating my warning. Now scurry away, little one.

Sorry. Pure sarcasm. But I’ve heard it before.

poe’s law

begs the question do you use the finger emoji

A lot of this also can be traced to the values real women had in our lives. I developed an eating disorder in my late teens/early 20s, but I was ALWAYS obsessed with my weight and my looks. I don’t necessarily blame Barbie, but I do blame the constant images coupled with women (mostly my mother) being fixated on…

I have a very distinct memory of being something like five years old, and getting a doll as a gift, and I distinctly remember feeling disappointed that the doll didn’t have blond hair. At five years old, I’d already internalized that long, silky, blond hair was the ideal. Nobody ever explicitly told me that blond hair…

Please tell me more about what I, as an aspiring super feminist, am allowed to think about and what is a “silly distraction”.

THIS! And it’s more than just the body. Maybe you wished for her long, straight hair. Or her unfreckled, white-but-tan skin. Or her tiny, perky nose. Or her bright blue eyes. While maybe no one specifically sat around longing to be 7 feet tall with a 15 inch waist, there were parts of her that could make just about…

I think the concern is more that we only market one kind of ideal of beauty and that can mess with kids heads when they grow up. I had an eating disorder when I was younger and it wasn’t necessarily just Barbie, it was everything that was marketed towards me reinforced the same one ideal of beauty and that as a woman…

It’s not a “silly distraction.” It’s not the biggest or most pressing problem, sure, but it’s not inconsequential. Despite people like OP who seem to think that influence doesn’t exist unless it’s explicit and conscious, Barbie dolls still account for one more thing in the avalanche of patriarchal messages that kids…

You have to buy a set grouped for diversity and empowerment?