I learned from a 45-year-old country song exactly why God made girls: to tell off the shaming bigots of the Harper Valley PTA.

Can Pintrest Pop Country be a new genre? All those mason jars and barn weddings need something for the ladies other than those folky mumford and sons type bands.

That ranch story made my stomach turn. It reminds me of what my ex-bf's mother used to call "salad" which was a bunch of sad lettuce leaves turned into a sloppy soup after being drenched in ranch dressing. I never ate it because I prefer crunchy, untainted veggies.

In case bunnies aren't your bag, Della the cat adopted some ducklings.

I wasn't quite as young as you, but I walked a few blocks to the park near my grandparents house and stayed for hours as a kid. I don't think anyone even noticed.

Yes! Out after breakfast, home for dinner.

Oh, I don't think that's the case per se, but I do think we're a bit out of touch today with just how much children can act and survive independently. I'm definitely of the "we're way too helicopter-y" mindset myself.

If making you poorer for a day doesn't fix your poverty-related issues, then maybe we'll condescend you! Yeah, that'll do it!

It's already extremely difficult (and expensive) to be poor in the United States, and in certain states, it's even more difficult than others. Of course, if you haven't experienced being poor, it seems like the average person just falls back on the ancient "it must be their fault" nonsense, even if it's only to…

Your essentialist views of women anchored in childbirth and very specific feelings around childbirth are pretty disturbing. But who am I to argue with your totally scientifically valid fact that 99.9% of women feel this way?

I would consider our treatment by society and the gender roles constructed for us to be what separates men and women, not the possession of a functional uterus.

Trans women are women. It says so right in the name. So, it proves that you don't think of trans women as women at all, and that makes you sound like a bigot. Explain to me how they have male privilege because I honestly don't see where trans women have male privilege.

I really don't understand this mentality. Do they think transwomen are actually just men who put A LOT of effort into spying on women? How would you even know if a person was prep-op/non-op or post-op unless they told you? Unless someone decides to whip their genitals out in public, it really doesn't seem like an…

Can you cite where you have encountered transgender women objecting to the discussion of vaginas in abortion discussions or the discussion of uteruses and other biology as part of a greater discussion of womanhood? I see this point brought up a lot, but have never once encountered such behavior from actual transgender…

Trans women are affected by our society's neverending obsession with conflating womanness and pregnancy, that any women who can't reproduce are damaged goods or not women. This is part of the background, part of the socialisation trans women absorb, too. The impact is different, and I make no statement about its…

I think it could make sense to include post-op transwomen in Mich Fest, definitely! But pre-op transwomen? Nope, nope, nope. The male body (the penis in particular) represent WAY too much awful shit for women to once again force itself upon them in a vulnerable female space.

Yeah, I love that shit. What do they do with people who have multiple sex organs? And there are plenty of them. Do the TERFs measure which one is bigger and then assign your "true" sex based on that? If they were operated on at birth, do they go with whatever the doctor decided (because that's so natural!) or do they…

Your racial analogy is flawed, and I've already addressed your criticisms in Trans Women, Male Privilege, Socialisation and Feminism. Profoundly is subjective, profoundly in comparison to what? This is the question I explore, and answer, in that piece. Beyond that I have also said:

Whoa there. Given the existing Gawker headline about this story + the fact that writers for these blogs are actively encouraged by their management to use sex to sell stories + the total irrelevance of this woman's career choice to the story, i.e., that she was beaten almost to death by her ex boyfriend + (in light of…