I get that you’re stuck on how gross the idea is but it’s infinitely preferable to testing on animals, which is a thousand times more disgusting. So...I guess I’m having a little trouble with the simple sentiment of “ew” here. The ethics outweigh the ew factor by about a million. I’m not a vegetarian who claims the…

fuck you boobs it’s always murrica.

Newsflash: they are not responsible for your feelings on their decision to have children.

My mom is a full 10 years older than my MIL. My MIL has been pressuring me to have children since I was 20 - almost a full decade. She announced to my mother one year when we were all out to dinner that she started going to church again SOLELY to pray that our condoms break so we can give her grandchildren before she…

Wait so you want us to be against the STORE CLERK in this situation? Who is probably making around minimum wage?? Yeah, it probably wasn’t the nicest thing to say out loud, but jeez, s/he probably meant it literally. It literally must be nice to have that life. It literally must be nice to be able to make that choice…

Well, I’m not going to go out of my way to praise you for enjoying your hobby of baking at home and call it a triumph of feminism. It’s like you expect someone to give you a cookie for what you’re doing, when you can clearly bake them yourself. I grew up with a mother who became a physician in India in the ‘70s, a…

No one enjoys being judged, so I understand why you would complain about that. What I don't understand is why people like you also seem to want to hear that what you do is a feminist act because you're doing it by choice and not just because you have to. It's cool that you get to do what you want but you can't get…

You’re really not sure why, or you’re coyly “not sure why?” If it’s the former, consider re-reading the article.

Omg nobody cares. You do you, but if you can’t understand how these roles have been forced on women and serve as symbols of our historical oppression, then there is no helping you.

One of the main points of this article was that not very long ago, women WERE obligated to do domestic work because they were women, and they weren’t allowed to do anything else. Have fun with your bread.

I’m not sure why some feminists feel the need to mock domestic things like ironing, cooking, baking, etc.

There was truth in those statements - in that American slavery was largely perpetrated by Europeans, and that after the Atlantic Slave Trade was outlawed, the propagation of slavery was done mostly via inheritances of white southern plantation owners. However, suggesting that the whole institution of slavery was solely…

It’s definitely true that social media is not the best forum for discussing such complex issues, but that does not change the fact that some of the statements she made were provably untrue.

Someone else harmed its brand as well ...

But that’s...kind of beside my point? Her position as a professor gives her a clear power advantage over her students in a way that doesn’t (in my mind) making this analogous to speaking out against a privileged group in the abstract.

I wouldn’t mind such historically wrong, bias tweets from a student. (Though the St. Patrick’s Day is really deeply insulting for being cultural erasure and borderline anti-Catholic.) But a professor? A professor who will clearly shows bias among her students depending on their race and gender? Nope. Professors aren’t…

Anna, I normally really enjoy your posts, but if you are actually interested in having an honest discussion on this topic you have a responsibility to show Grundy’s tweets in full rather than simply paraphrasing them. As someone who likes to cite their Columbia certified journalistic credentials you should know better…

Some of her tweets seem pretty fair, and calling for someone’s resignation is clearly a bridge too far. But if I were a white male, I would absolutely feel uncomfortable if my professor sent out a tweet saying “why is white america so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population.”

THANK YOU. Although it really needs to be parental leave, only because if it’s maternity-only, then businesses will just have another excuse to avoid hiring and fairly-compensating female employees.

...But that implies that they would not want to be taxed unless they were menstruating.