“Do these guys look like terrorists? Do they have terrorist names?”

The problem with the Needle/Haystack approach is that, statistically speaking, we really need to just focus on the shiny objects to find the Needles, but the American Needles Liberties Union and Council on American-Needle Relations won’t really allow us to “profile” needles like that, so we sift through a bunch of…

Heavens forfend someone criticize a Third World culture...

If you’re culture routinely mutilates women to stop their sexual desires then your culture is, at it’s core, inferior and barbaric.

Can you stop calling it “natural” though? It’s not like my cesarean was unnatural.

I fucking hate the term “natural childbirth.” What you want is an unmedicated vaginal birth. There’s nothing “natural” about giving birth in a hospital under the supervision of doctors and nurses or in a manmade bathtub. Truly natural childbirth is fucking dangerous and traumatic, and medical technology has made it…

So you’re saying we shouldn’t address uncomfortable but important facts because they make us uncomfortable? So let’s just hide our heads in the sand and pretend the origins of these men don’t matter, because if we ignore it it will go away, right? You do realise how stupid you sound, right?

Good luck getting Jezebel to ever address that. They initially wrote very little about it and when they do address the issue of where the assailants come from, it’s to say the right wing is using it to fuel xenophobia. Because apparently it's impossible to say anything about the fact that these men come from countries…

Suspicions of some mass cover-up were fanned by conservative outlets that referenced the well-worn racist narrative of dark-skinned men abusing white women.

The prosecution fucked this one up. The women should have been told all of this way before the trial. That the women are now saying that they only learned about the power of “post-incident conduct” during the trial is a complete indictment of the failure of the prosecution. The prosecutors should have been sitting…

Can you not with the stupid fucking cat pictures? Hundreds of people are likely dead and the white answer is to post fucking cat pictures? Fuck off.

If casting a “white-featured” black actress to portray a black woman is racist, exactly how, “black-featured” does the correct choice need to be? How many millimeters wide must her nose be? How dark must her skin be?How closely must the actor resemble the represented figure to be socially just?

Except...she doesn’t show her flaws, nor does she accept herself the way she is, and neither does her husband.

Telling your rapist that you want to ‘fuck his brains out’ and then sending another, oh, 1000 messages to him doesn’t mean that you weren’t raped -but it means the rapist will never, ever be convicted in a court as long as the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt

But why does a fully grown adult with basic reading comprehension (i.e., hopefully every college student) need the professor to do that? The issue with trigger warnings, for me, has very little (if at all) to do with the purpose of those warnings—I have no desire in anyone reliving a trauma—but rather with the idea…

I think it’s important, as a former student who had PTSD (roommate’s suicide attempt/fire, and I have very boring paperwork for it) to take responsibility for yourself. I talked to my professor’s at the beginning of the semester to ask them questions about course material.

I have been raped. To shield me and handle me with kid gloves is to deny me the strength I have worked so hard to regain. I’m a woman, and I understand as much as any survivor that rape happens. Trigger warnings are bullshit.

John Waters is supremely cavalier and dismissive and that is precisely why we love him.

Why SHOULD they care about diversity? What you are advocating is that every piece of art should basically cater to your own prejudices and if they offend your sensibilities movies are automatically bad, and this is basically the death of art. Great art shouldn’t coddle you, and if you leave a movie feeling “yes, I…

Ballet is all about the lines of the human body. Costumes are typically very tight in order to showcase those lines. It does seem like there would be a conflict with the modesty required by someone who practices the hijab.