Couldn't edit my post so I put in italics what I forgot to type above:

Ah, okay, got it now!

Why the sad face? Because he's not trans? I'm genuinely puzzled by that.

Thank you. I'm appalled that the more I read trans bloggers like Kat and many others online, the more I gather that these authors seem unwilling to listen to what people who are gender non-conforming or cis feminists are saying when they criticize a certain aspect of trans* philosophy re: reinforcing gender roles and…

Meanwhile, a certain part *ahem* of the gaming community are showing their true colors yet again in their neverending quest to reaching new lows: Anita Sarkeesian driven out of home by online abuse and death threats.

No, I totally agree with what you've said there. We need to focus on both, absolutely. I just found the gender-specific namecalling jarring when it didn't come (at least as far as I'm aware) from a troll and/or MRA but was just someone giving their (controversial) opinion. The awful implication of said opinion, imho,…

True, I fully agree with that. But "crazy bitch" isn't exactly reasonable, is it? That's what I was weirded out by.

This is fucking terrifying. I'm not from the US but I'm watching this unfold with utter disbelief. Yes, this tension has been brewing for a good long while (to say the least) but these major violations of citizen's rights (understatement of the year) are shocking to see unfold in a place that calls itself a part of a…

So, you just called a woman (cis or trans, doesn't matter) a "crazy bitch", one of the most gendered combos of misogynistic slurs out there (one step below "hysterical cunt", I suppose), denying her experience because she didn't show proof in a public forum that she has been harassed (!) and because she criticized a…

Thank you so much for posting this! I went there when I was ten years old and have supported the Park ever since. It's an amazing place with amazing people and of course, amazing elephants.

Your comment is gold. I'm rather disturbed by the amount of LGBTQ people (and allies) fighting tooth and nail in this thread because "what will the GOP say now" if we even acknowledge this particular scientific set of data (!) and using an argument that is focused merely on their desire not to have to deal with…

You're being overly presumptuous in your quest to find something to critique here. In almost all of the languages we use in the EU (Swedish as well), the word "race" is defined very differently. There is for us, linguistically, only one race in humans: the human race. We only use "race" when it comes to say, dog…

You know, I have chronic nerve pain and have had a lot of medical problems in the past so I visit doctors and specialists constantly. I've met shitty ones (the "oh it's all in your head kind" - coming mostly from middle-aged or older men) and fantastic ones (most of them women, some of them younger men). You're right…

You seem to be forgetting that UN workers at the scene had asked multiple times to be given some time to evacuate the people in the facility when they (too late, unfortunately) got intel that the school had just become the IDF's next target - that plea was summarily dismissed by Israeli authorities and before anyone…

Thanks for these links. I never knew that. :(

I'm not an American and didn't really follow the Democratic primaries in '08, so may I ask what she did? Do you mean she was courting the, um, racist voters who were opposed to Obama or something?

The majority of people are ultimately either lacking in empathy or downright ignorant of pain and illness to the point that they inflict emotional stress in seemingly soulless, cruel ways (even if they think they have good intentions) to people with chronic illnesses and chronic pain, especially when the cause (or the…

You know what, asshole? I'm a 22-year-old virgin but I've been on BC since I was eleven. Without them, I'd have died four times over in 11 years' time. Even with those pills, I used to have menstrual bleeding that lasted for MONTHS and caused dangerous levels of anemia (not to mention the migraines and crippling pain…

Totally agreed there! Every European country has a long, looooong way to go still, absolutely, and that's shameful. It should be exposed and be seen by everyone.

Well, it's not only the UK. For some inexplicable reason, during the last couple of months (a lot of it happening on Gawker/Jez/io9 articles too sadly) it's become somewhat of a trend to derail conversations about racism in the US to go on and on about "Europe" (as if we're a country!) being so awfully racist and the…