Yeah, I can imagine, and that's awful that you've had to go through that, and will continue to have to go through that so long as you present arguments with nuance.

You just perfectly articulate all the ambivalence I feel about this issue. Thank you.

Hi Kat,

Not focusing on the body isn't a luxury most women get to enjoy, what with rape, violence, and control over our own bodies being stripped away constantly.

I mean, I think it's obvious. Those are inert objects or depictions, detached from the male body and person and what he signifies in our society, and in the case of sex toys, things over which women have 100% control and power and things which are meant exclusively for female pleasure, at the discretion of the…

GT: "I was reading about the controversy surrounding the "Night of a Thousand Vaginas," which was fighting restrictions to abortions in Texas, a very worthy cause. The following problems arose. There was a protest to using the word 'vagina' because it leaves out the women who don't have a vagina, creating a…

I don't have a solution to every issue that could possibly arise with this; I was trying to suggest WHY it's important to have an all female and female-bodied space - it could be an honor or good faith system.

Many radical feminists see trans women as yet another example of people with dicks demanding access to their spaces, telling them they know their shit better than they do, dismissing their feelings and thoughts, and then explaining to them how to feminism.

I've had this thought before, too. Like, in transwomen telling women they can't use words like "vagina," in insisting on access to women-born-women spaces, etc., it's REALLY hard not to see it as men asserting their male privilege and telling women to shut the fuck up, as per usual. And that's what I see it as,…

To others: "Oh, I'll just have a little tipple!"

Hysterical

Yeah, how scary is it when you can't even name or discuss an objective fact backed up by statistics? I notice authors on Jez do this a lot—avoid placing any blame or even disingenuously implying that white people did it to pander to their readers—I recall in an article on the poaching of elephant and rhino ivory that…

"Goblin Shark" I Googled it. DAFUQ is that!?

While you can get the soup in the US, it's significantly more popular in China.

Yep, the social justice internet activism part of the left is generally full of, as one person put it regarding the whole #CancelColbert incident, "professional umbrage takers." Really, really dumb ones who are like 19 and spend too much time on Tumblr.

Yes, there is a scene where Lucy shoots a taxi driver for not speaking English. That is also not an uncommon action movie scene. Main character walks up to group of people, asks for something, one individual doesn't have it, they shoot them, everyone now takes the main character very seriously. It's hard to tell…

I found this post rather juvenile. I'll modify my opinion depending on what happens in the movie, but that's *just it*. I'll see it and decide for myself first. You're taking the word of a 19-year old with a Tumblr at face value, and I find that disturbing.

I just read the critique and it reads as extremely juvenile—like SJW Tumblr 101—and with quite a bit of stretching.

Iggy DGAF and is laughing all the way to the bank. But keep hating.

Then write the fucking book yourself or stop whining. Sorry not sorry that you can't hijack something you don't even have a fraction of the imagination to create yourself.