It was never about actual morality, but about power and control. They simply want to ‘seize the means of production’ - the most fundamental means of production that exists

Everything I need to know about purity culture, I learned from Elizabeth Smart.

A friend of mine used to be a network admin at Minnesota Public Radio, so spent lots of time around Garrison Keillor. He said one of the things Keillor was known for was going into a bathroom and basically turning it into a toxic waste dump, and people would whisper to each other what bathroom he’d been using so…

Oh, they seem to understand two things that matter: 1) any publicity is good publicity and 2) people love drama.

We absolutely should not empathize with every person and every action.

Uhhh he did more than just laugh along. He made crude comments alongside Trump, egged him on and encouraged his comments, and even used Trump’s presence to get away with flirting with the lady and getting a hug from her. His demeanor was definitely not that of somebody who was uncomfortable, but someone who was…

The problem is, he IS doing this in hopes of one day getting back on TV. And it kinda sends the message that you can get away with these actions if you apologize and use your family connections to get a spread in People.

Sorry about your shitty dad :( hope you’ve gotten far away from him and his damaging attitude

So what... I’m supposed to put up with systemic misogyny, harassment, discrimination, sexual assault, etc, and I’m supposed to do it using only some impossibly inoffensive words and a polite smile on my face, while solving all of men’s fucking issues, too?

For once, just for once, I’d like to see men actually deal…

Seriously! There’s a lot of people in these comments saying this is body shaming but if some asshole spits in my face (or anyone else’s) then takes his pants off, he absolutely deserves to have a crowd loudly mock his baby dick. Some of us are trying to have a society over here, he forfeits the benefit of the doubt…

You actually sound insane. Just FYI.

Are you being serious? This woman is an Iraq war veteran who lost her fucking legs piloting a helicopter that went down and you’re going to drag her like that? Consider your bullshit before you share it, please.

What a ridiculously uncharitable reading. She explicitly says she cared about it, but noticed new things about the issues when she was undergoing it herself. This is natural, and exactly why we want all kinds of diversity in our representative bodies. She never refused to sign an airport breastfeeding bill - she just…

If you pull your pants down in public, you waive the right to be insulted by observations.

Wait a minute, Gal Gadot is Israeli; of course she is pro her own country and it is a legal requirement for every Israeli citizen to serve in the military. You are being deliberately disingenuous and obtuse by acting like those are war crimes.

Some women promote genital mutilation, other women perform that mutilation. Many other women marry their daughters off to old men in arranged marriages.

In essence, being a woman who does something of her own free will doesn’t fully exonerate that practice from patriarchy. It could simply mean that you have…

I don’t know. Calling a state child murderers and illegal would definitely see her asked to step aside regardless if it was Arab or not. At least in Europe much of the population is definitely more sympathetic towards Arabs such as Palestine than Israel these days.

Sure, some of you do - because some of you are able to choose to, by not living in countries where the act of not wearing a hijab isn’t regarded a crime by the legal/religious system. Countries such as Israel, ironically.

Or have you forgotten this act of defiance in Iran recently?https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-ne…

What it means to you personally or culturally is beside the point. The hijab isn’t required by the quran so just because someone is against hijab doesn’t mean they’re Islamophobic. The underlying meaning of “women remaining modest so as not to tempt men” is still problematic and the fact that hundreds of millions of…