To be clear, my brother has a job, lives in a group home, and has a girlfriend. A lot of people reading this cannot claim the same level of independence.

I genuinely believe there is no direct intimation of sexualized domestic abuse here peeps. "Cake" has become a common reference for a vagina so this whole bit is a reference to someone gettin down the Bey. (Also.... I'm pretty sure the reference is to a 3-some wherein the 3rd is being told to make a meal of his wife.)…

This is the first time I've ever read this column, but this part was fucking brilliant:

I know I'm the odd man out, but I like Doug. As a matter of fact, I sort of like that there are different types of writing styles represented on Gawker Media. I couldn't imagine showing up to work and being heckled every time. I mean, I can imagine it because I've had some shitty jobs, but I can't see why it would be…

The OP seemed shocked that one would throw up from working out hard. I let them know that it's common.

A lot of Jezebel authors and commentators would like to believe that obesity is:

OK, I'll bite.

Do we really need all the vitriol? Like every single person who is not up on trans culture and terminology, Morgan (and more likely, the guy who creates the graphics) conflated gender with sex. Mock could have taken it as a moment to be an ambassador for trans people and used the show as a platform to teach Morgan…

Thanks for proving my point that your ability to think about right and wrong when it comes to animals is based on whether or not a vegan hurt your feefees.

Actually, teen pregancy rates were higher in the 1950s and 60s than they are now. http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/resources/pdf/… and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/data…

You are missing the point. Jezebel does this so all the benevolent "Jezzies" can respond with remarks indicating how anti-racist they are. Instead of a dog whistle, it is a signal for all the wounded fragile "I'm a good person" white girls to collectively pat themselves on the back.

"I don't know of any off campus woman in her twenties who would slap that label on herself."

Oh barf. You haven't bought into the feminist rhetoric, you've bought into the Jezebel rhetoric. Did you even know who Wendy Davis does was before she got press on Jezebel? And female celebrities have good reason to feel iffy about Jez, that shouldn't be hard to understand since you're in the mix calling them…

If you classify these women as "intelligent women" that's pretty depressing. I would classify them as not as idiotic as most celebrities (in some cases) but when I think of intelligent women in the public sphere I think much more of women like Wendy Davis or high profile academics and journalists (including the…

For me, the word had a bad connotation, for a long time, because I grew up in the SF Bay Area in the 70s and 80s, and the majority of feminists I was exposed to firsthand were angry, man-hating, bra-burning women, and that didn't sit right with me. So I was one of those women who did say "I'm not a feminist, I'm an…

The way this "it just means you think men and women should be equal" shit totally erases the history is one of the top things that makes me want to explicitly not identify as a feminist. Putting aside the part where it whitewashes feminism's darker sides, I just don't understand why anyone would even want to be part…

I'm kind of behind the people who don't like the word. It immediately brings forth a negative connotation for so many people of angry bra burning women folk when really it's supposed about equality in general. It divides the cause from other important fights for equality when the real goal should be to make sure…

...or maybe they just don't consider themselves feminists? Like it or not, contemporary Western feminism is associated in popular parlance with a specific brand of identity politics - one which many people, including many strong independent women, may find problematic or irrelevant to their circumstances.

Of course, then someone you don't like or disagrees with you identifies as a feminist and the rules start coming out.

That one made me laugh in that uncomfortable, releasing tension way. It sounds like something I would have done as a child...It's unsettling.