Reading the NY Times piece. These things stuck out:

I’ve bought several books of bound copies of Life magazines from the 40s and 50s. I love them! For those that love the ads, taschen (I think) has a series of books with print ads from the 1910s to 1990s.

My parents wouldn’t purchase magazines for me as a youth, but they would get old back issues for free from the public library (at least, I think that’s where these came from). So I grew up reading magazines that had been published at least 4 years prior. I remember them very fondly and committed several issues to…

Kate Moss’s first cover (The Face, July 1990)

No fuck that, nobody is “surprised” at all. In fact, a lot of us have come to expect this shit and if you think, “oh well they got him, case closed” you’re incredibly wrong and not paying attention. Nasser in jail is like a band-aid over a headshot wound; sure you’ve stopped leaking blood over your eyes and can see…

“As tragedies are politicized, blame is inevitable”...oh go straight to hell, please. Calling this “politicized” is beyond disgusting.

I didn’t say I agreed with anything. I said I think I know what she meant to say. That’s very different. Just because you *understand* something doesn’t mean you *endorse* it. I understand racists’ points. I think their points are stupid and awful. These are not mutually exclusive.

Do you really think there weren’t woman that were willing to fuck him for roles? Its all shades of gray, don’t exclude the shades you don’t like. It all fits together into how a man could of gotten away with it for so long. If all sides of this aren’t acknowledged, the problem will never go away.

It’s deeply frustrating to me, living in a ‘Muslim country’, that there is so much resistance among the center-left about genuinely tackling the issue of the veil in the context of patriarchal and misogynistic norms in various cultures. It’s lazy and reductive to dismiss it either way.

Are you seriously saying that Pakistan as a whole does not have an issue with Islamist fundamentalism? It’s not just the Taliban, it’s a significant aspect of the government itself, and regularly manifests in general society. I am not endorsing whatever link that other person posted; they are pretty clearly speaking…

And you’ve lived in the Arab World to know that? I’ve lived/worked in Jordan and Turkey and literally heard no hatred expressed towards Israel. People in the Arab World are working for peace as much as anyone. People in the Arab World understand that we are global citizens as much as anyone. People in the Arab World…

I was just watching someone’s YouTube video on why she took off the hijab and she kept having to justify it, which tells me, another Muslim woman, she’s feeling loads of pressure to keep it on in the first place.

Or realize that even as a tourist, the world doesn’t revolve around you and that most locals you encounter will have enough of their own shit on their minds to spend much time trying to figure out if you’re a Trump supporter. I spent 16 days in the UK and Paris this past fall and if anyone gave a shit that I’m…

This movement of shittiness is not isolated to the USA.

I know, right? How, exactly, are those women different from the Duggar-like Christian women who claim that dressing modestly “empowers” them because it prevents males from objectifying them?

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…

It’s not just countries like Pakistan and Iran it’s also right here in Europe. In several neighbourhoods in France for instance, girls and women of Arab descent (not going to call them Muslim because some of them are not religious) who don’t wear a headscarf/hijab get catcalled or shamed or harassed by their…

Calling a state child murderers and illegal would definitely see her asked to step aside regardless if it was Arab or not.

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…

The current president ran his entire campaign about how shitty America was.