Yeah! Well said, I think you're right.

BTW this isn't something I made up. Mainstream media - "those media disseminated via the largest distribution channels, which therefore represent what the majority of media consumers are likely to encounter" (thanks, Wikipedia) - in Western society, the media that Beyoncé is disseminated through, is resoundingly…

.... yes? Where have you been living that the mainstream media wasn't racist and white-centric?

See response to another person arguing the same thing. It's pretty common knowledge that mainstream standards of beauty are not Black standards of beauty. Cause Western culture is pretty racist. So... folding Black beauty ideals into the white beauty ideals (which were/are being peddled as universal beauty ideals) is…

Have you seen the videos this is all about? Watch Partition.

Yep, me too! I just think it merits mention that we are making some progress if we can casually refer to a WoC flaunting her big booty as fitting the beauty ideals. I don't think we've made any progress if we simply switch one for another, but I'm probably that latter kind of feminist you mention - expanding ideals of…

Well, then it gets into which beauty ideal you're talking about. I was referring to broader mainstream Western beauty ideals, which have generally been critiqued for being white beauty deals applied to all women (hence the popularity of skin lightening creams, the experiences of lighter WoC versus darker W0C, etc.).…

Nitpicky, but wasn't some of the excitement around Beyoncé showing off her generous bum in those videos about how that beauty ideal has changed over the last decade or so? How big bums were not a part of the beauty ideal until relatively recently, in part because of people like Beyoncé?

Thank you!

So... I'm not entirely clear on what you're arguing here. Are you arguing that we shouldn't as a movement be bashing these festivals? Or that we shouldn't care when performers boycott them? I'm so confused! The content here seems to keep arguing against trans-exclusionary policies but I think you're also arguing…

I'm curious to see if they can actually shut it down! I mean, how could the administration control it if they just did it in someone's house on a Saturday evening and divvied up dates that way? At my school, all prom activities including prom itself were technically not managed by the school because they didn't have…

Well, I don't think what the girls want is completely irrelevant. Presumably they volunteer for this, or the title would be something more like "SLAVE PROM TRADE?". If that's the case, I'm guessing the girls (and guys) who found a person they liked "based on chemistry, shared interests, and mutual attraction" would…

I think you're onto something, but really, those women are largely wearing regular bras underneath their gear. Even a sexy sports bra can't compete with cleavage-enhancing VS magic.

I wish I could star this more than once!

This is my favourite of all internet things!

You're right! "it' not just some patriarchal white knight bullshit" (my emphasis, of course). Most of it is patriarchal white knight bullshit. Some of it is not.

Well said.

Thank you. I love you!

I think you're just less predictable! Science doesn't like things (and people) who are less predictable. :) Only childs probably have very little in common with each other - whether they're "entitled" or not will depend entirely on their parents, how they socialize will depend on how often they had friends/other…

That's a really interesting story, and I think it fits. I think the eldest child is often given a lot of responsibility from a young age, like babysitting and being responsible for their younger siblings, while their parents experiment with rules first on that kid, which would make them more likely to experience rules…