Anyone remember back around 1997/1999 (post-Ellen, pre-Rosie coming out) when Madonna appeared on Rosie’s daytime show live and outted her on accident?

Yeah Meg!!! It’s not like anyone else uses an avatar around here or anything!!!! Just who are you Meg?!?!? I bet that’s not even your real name!!!!! The Internet people want to know!!!!

I’m not really Tina Belcher, either.

My family first came over on an H1-B - my dad is a highly skilled engineer with a niche specialty. My mom, siblings, and I came as dependents on his visa. When people say “hire Americans first” they don’t seem to realize that’s already past of the H1-B law. Companies have to aggressively advertise the job to Americans…

Op keeps dismissing people who comment that wrongful convictions are common as hell. So here's my comment! If you are black or brown in America, wrongful convictions are common as hell! Don't be such a racist Tina!

Because as women we’re not required to “stand up for others” every time we clap back against sexism. We can do it just for ourselves. Everyone who experiences sexism is qualified to critique it. And she wasn’t even speaking out about sexism in general, just one SPECIFIC type of sexism aimed directly at HER and her…

Thank you. I just straight up distrust “feminist” arguments aimed at policing and critiquing individual women’s survival strategies within misogynistic systems rather than the systems themselves. That is not my feminism.

To me it reads like she was trying to make an argument based in intersectional feminism but misunderstood/misrepresented what intersectionality means. It’s intended to reflect the complexities of how oppression and privilege play out within various women’s lives, not divide women up into demographic groups and…

Damn. I have been with y’all for a long time, reading and loving your articles. And then every now and then you have to drop some mess like this to remind me we aren’t really on the same team.

It reads a little like she had an argument already plotted out, and waited for a current event to hitch it to, but this wasn’t a great fit.

I don’t think this is one of your better essays. It reads like you and your editors disagreed and no one backed down and each got their viewpoint included and it clouded up the whole thing.

Yes, I guess that’s what the essay is getting at? That because JA is thin, White, and conventionally attractive she needs to “take a seat” and stop complainingabout how these standards of beauty are oppressive because she has essentially become one of the standards of beauty other women are held to.

“Discusses” or “is forced to answer intrusive questioning by a “reporter” with an already defined agenda who will then make answer the central focus of the piece in order to sell magazines.”

I guess because it’s late Friday afternoon but this essay confuses me...what’s the thesis statement? That women who are body-shamed shouldn’t be “clapping back”?

They are just completely distinct issues. Gretchen Carlson being a soulless gopher is not relevant. You’re still not allowed to harass soulless gophers.

Plus it’s possible that we could just nip this whole situation in the bud with “don’t do meth.”

Ugh that bro dipshit insulting Iggy in the video is AWFUL. Why share that on this site?

I didn’t recognize half the names on this Dirt Bag.

I think whoever writes Vows hates that column. There’s always a barely suppressed hint of “I HATE THIS JOB I HATE THIS JOB” undercutting every word.