I'm a former student and I gotta say, it's tres Columbia to make them study for this.

As a college professor I am all too well-acquainted with how many students phone in some last-minute bullshit. And that's for papers that are assigned to get them to do the reading, not implemented to reduce rates of sexual assault. I can't imagine having to sift through all the responses to this assignment that were…

No reporting on how that girl with the mattress is pretty much proven liar? That this whole demonstration is based on a false allegation?

Mark, Chloe did a wonderful job in Boys Don't Cry. Also, if Jennifer Lawrence never does another great movie in her life, Winter's Bones is the best. Really the best. I saw her in that, and I did not know who she was, but I just thought I had seldom believed in a character to that extent. I still think she's…

Mark, if you DON'T want a cross-stitch version of this to give to Allen as the birthday gift he never knew he needed, the time to speak up is NOW

There are LOADS of White people who have done way, way, way more to fight for and protect civil rights for African Americans than I have, for instance (I am African American). Why wouldn't the Jezebel audience want to read an article by someone fighting for civil and human rights regardless of his or her race? I…

Yeah, sure. Aziz Ansari is in the PRIVILEGED GROUP! Growing up a skinny little Indian kid in South Carolina must have been a breeze. I'm sure he coasted along on nothing but privilege as the white male patriarchy embraced him. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. You are the problem.

False flags are worse than the obvious enemy. Every alienating activist spouting unoriginal koans from perpetually revised little red books sets the cause back twice as much as a diplomat with empathy and a convincing argument

That is not a nuanced or insightful reading of my comment or of Aziz's recent material.

Bless your heart. Your logic would apply if he were referring to himself as a woman. But he's not, he's referring to himself as a feminist. Feminism is a movement, not an identity. You don't choose to be born a woman but you do choose to be a feminist. The "marginalised" group is women, not feminists. The terms aren't…

I think there's a few people that were killed in Mississippi that would disagree with you, had they not been killed for being civil rights workers. I can never understand what it is to be a person of color and so yes, I will be an ally, but I'm pretty certain I can also be a civil rights worker. And I'm pretty sure…

Exactly. Exactly. It's maddening when people let "perfect" become the enemy of "good" on topics of advocacy that matter so much. Nobody is saying we need to put up a statue in his honor, but christ, let's at least not pick him to bits when he's up there deliberately making comedy that has the potential to educate…

This so much, I feel like when... especially vocal and negative conversations between some feminists and those they feel aren't hitting the right tone or exactly the right idea, it alienates them, and turns those who could be very thoughtful, empathetic allies, into enemies.

Is that etched onto a stone tablet at the top of a mountain somewhere? Did someone make that law and I missed it? Anyone who believes in gender equality is a feminist in my book, and no one owns the term. And by the way, if it is suddenly "trendy", you do realize that's a good thing, right? I mean, I understand…

Yes. We'll have much better luck getting men (and women!) to learn the real meaning of feminism if we're patronizing and talk down to them.

Whatever, man. He's a male public figure who's using his fame as a platform to talk about/promote gender equality, a thing he really believes in. His whole show conveyed the earnest and sincere sentiment of "Listen, (male) guys, feminism is a legitimate thing". Like this dude:

Gawd, I knew I would find this in the comments. The fact that it's feminists who are criticizing him the most proves that, once again, feminists are feminism's worst enemies. We say we want allies but I guess by "allies", we mean "silent masochistic punching bags". It's kinda sad when you're just as disgusted by the…

Last time I checked, being a feminist is about the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men. It says nothing about it being a girls club or anything like that

Are people never allowed to grow and evolve in their perspectives? When I was 17-20, I regularly espoused my beliefs that civil unions were fine, being trans was all made up nonsense, that abortion was wrong,and that affirmative action is bullshit.

Freshman Social Justice Warriors would MUCH RATHER pick at an individual Like Aziz who is very clearly making efforts to say right and do right, and very open about not claiming to be perfect about it, than to stare down an actual malevolent person, let alone the whole fucked up system. So much easier to stay at home…