Yeah. I’m mind boggled by the people here who are so into the OP’s story.

You hoping you don’t offend anyone doesn’t actually prevent you from offending anyone. Being considerate of other peoples feelings is much more likely to prevent you from offending someone.

You were never a feminist of any kind with those anti-feminist misconceptions about feminist traditions.

I can’t remember the last time I read such a holier-than-thou post.

Thank you. I didn’t want to be the first one to say it but what was the spiritual awakening exactly? That she likes mauve nail polish? Is the nail polish a metaphor that she can appreciate the new things the friend introduced her to but just like the friendship is temporary? And... she journals? I feel like this is…

Normcore?

Starred b/c I am sad no one got your joke.

She should have mentioned intersectionality. Being a woman is not enough to have thoughts about femaleness and the social experience of being female.

I feel the same way, which is why I’m conflicted. Maybe the jezzies can help me out to reconcile my feelings about this. I know I’m going to get yelled at for this and I am open to hearing arguments for/against, but I don’t agree with prostitution, stripping, camgirls, etc. because it feeds into the idea that women…

Couldn’t it be that more women are hesitant to endorse a practice - legality aside - where they are especially vulnerable to the violence of human males?

I wonder though if most of the women polled were looking at it from the perspective of “this mostly hurts women through coercive practices and trafficking and therefore it’s really bad” rather than “those slutwhores”. In which case, yeah, it makes sense that women would view it more unfavorably since we’re the ones…

Shocking! Women less likely to support something that would hurt mostly women!

Have her look at women’s colleges, I highly recommend.

The real Florence’s husband (though apparently they never legally wed - fun with Wikipedia!) was seven years younger than her, so Hugh and Meryl’s age difference is fairly accurate. Plus, let’s face it, Hugh is one of those actors who look their age nowadays and Meryl looks a bit younger.

Florence Foster Jenkins is a legend, amazing they’re making a movie about her. She was so, so, awful, and it was really unclear if she knew:

nope!

No, no, you don’t realize that public education is completely and irretrievably fucked, so we couldn’t possibly consider adding, say, skills students will actually need to the curriculum.

It can’t hurt. But I don’t think it will help that much. I think the only way to truly prevent rape - or at least a lot of them - is to raise boys to value and respect women and for society to no longer view them as lesser to men, and to no longer teach men that they are entitled to women. But that’s gonna take ages...…

Loving that this married couple are actually similar in age, for once.