I didn't watch that other video until you linked it but I interpreted it somewhat differently from the write-up. I do not particularly like Taylor Swift (though my six-year-old is going to flip for the song when she hears it) but I didn't get as negative an impression of the video. The point that came across to me was…

I like the new song. I like the new video. I understand that her music/persona is not to everyone's taste, but I find it sexist and annoying to see the inevitable point where masses of people turn on popular female celebrities (see also Anne Hathaway).

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

Ya know, I haven't experienced many instances of blatant racism in my lifetime, so Rush Week during my freshman year of college has always stuck with me. I, along with a white friend, went to convention-like event in which members of campus sororities essentially pitched why their groups were the best. My friend and I…

He looked up at her, the mask torn from his face, blood leaking out of one eye. Saw no pity. Saw no mercy. Saw only the gun: bright chrome, etched with Por Boots on one side and Vaminos! on the other.

The city doesn't allow exotic pets so he got sent to a zoo. But not a good one; a really crappy one where he sits in a little concrete exhibit all day, with nothing to do. The other monkeys bully him and tourists throw things at him, and he longs for the days of adventuring with his friend...

swiping was a gateway crime.

They took Boots to a farm with a nice family honey. No...you can't visit him there.

So there are two kinds of weddings, Christian weddings and "normal weddings"? Tolerant.

But I liked the cosmetic tie-ins for Catching Fire, because they are essentially selling you makeup and calling you a bastard simultaneously.

You know, I've always struggled with close reading :(

The overlying theme of The Giver is manicures, right? Did you not catch that?

These women and men would ask that you respect their self-chosen identity and not paper it over. Please and thank you.

And the media is complicit in this also. All the people who showed up at Ted Bundy's ranch with guns blazing were called "supporters" and the protestors in Ferguson were referred to as an "angry mob" on Saturday, 24 whole hours before any kind of looting started. Sometimes it all just seems so hopeless, and feels like…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

I DEMAND A GENDERQUEER, DISABLED, NATIVE AMERICAN STORYLINE!

I have no idea how to contact the jezebel staff (sorry :) but just wanted to say that the first woman in history has won the fields medal (the so called nobel prize in mathematics). cheers!

Again, a stick thrown in a randomly chosen undergrad class will hit a woman who is more compelling to look at. I don't get it. Well, I get it. It's called the inherited networks of nepotism.

Plenty of women can and do swim the 2.4 miles of the first leg of an Ironman and from what I've seen, there are scads of women getting up out of the water before an awful lot of men. These archaic biases against women for physical "reasons" have been proven to be bullshit, time and time again.