My favorite part of this is the idea that women can only work on a career or look for a relationship. Because multitasking isn't a thing we can do - no sir! We can't have a job to pay our bills and possibly make us feel fulfilled on a personal level AND date ... that's INSANE! Our soft female brains can't handle that…

I remember right before this commercial came out, I was explaining why being hateful to or fearful of gay marriages and children with gay parents is as ridiculous as people in the 60s doing the same thing to multiracial couples and their children. And then this commercial came around and I was reminded that this kind…

If you know anything about Parks & Rec (set in a fictional Indiana town), Carmel is basically Eagleton. But Eagleton has more black people.

When I read the title of the article, I was really worried that a gay couple actually created the hoax. And while horrible people come in all sexualities, it would have really sucked for the general LGBT+ community for two of their own to be behind something like this. The fact that it's the radio station is still…

... Except women aren't food. And you don't have to ask food permission to eat it.

I thought the whole point of that side story in Love Actually was that he 1). avoided her at first because he knew she didn't love him and didn't want her to know his feelings. 2). did the cards thing after she found out so he could get closure 3). said in the cards that he knew she didn't feel the same way and he was…

Hell, one of the big reasons Ron left the group in DH was because he bought into the myth that he was the guy who would always get pushed aside. He let that bitterness eat him up and he assumed that Hermione would chose anyone else over him, but especially Harry. Like a lot of guys who think they're being…

Also I'm pretty sure in one of the commercials I saw Hiddleston with a fake mustache. Also surrounded by muppets. If that isn't reason enough to go see this movie...

I've had a standing nomination for the opposite of a sausage-fest (aka a large group of women with no virile male folk) to be called a clambake. Still no word on verifying it.

Or they could encourage women coders by paying them the same wage (see the link someone posted above) and you know, focus on a pro-woman workplace where their work would be appreciated. This really does scream, "See ladies, we get you. Look, we got you girl things! Girls like these things, right?"

Same. I feel like cheap insults are bad replies to threats like this, but the fact that the MC was so fast to stand up for the lady rapper is pretty cool. It's easy to freeze up when someone throws a rape threat out of nowhere (I know I have before), so it's a good sign that he was quick to call the guy out.

I know cancer survivors (or fighters or preventers) are often called brave in a very frivolous way by strangers, but can we just acknowledge how brave she was to bare all to the world in a world where women's bodies are so scrutinized? It's very cool that she was willing to show her scars and how her scars are a sign…

I went up to Toronto a couple weeks ago and bought the fuck out of some Kinder Eggs while I still could.

Candles tend to be a go-to gift idea for me when it comes to older ladies in my family, especially my boyfriend's mom and grandmother. If the candles were cheaper, I'd probably get it for them as a cute gift with the ring as a bonus. Actually, the bf's mom would love the kitchiness of it because it's really right up…

You know, I didn't think anything would turn my stomach when it came to the swimsuit issue more than the year they just did body paint instead of actual swimsuits. But nope, this is a new low.

Fair point. I didn't see the comment you were responding to so it looked like you were bringing up the term yourself.

The fact that you're even bringing up pale shaming says that you think it's worth pointing out. It's such a tiny little blip on the radar that it really isn't worth pointing out at all in this discussion and you bringing it up is pulling away from a much more serious issue.

Society ISN'T independent of us - it was there before us and it'll be there after us. We are BORN into societies and cultures that teach us how to feel about things and women (and men) become part of that culture that reinforces those ideas onto the next generation. You act as if women just decided one day that these…

But the idea that the only reason we have these troubling industries is because women WANT to look that way is ignoring the fact that modern western women (and women throughout the world as well) are born into a world where people obsess about women's socially accepted beauty or lack thereof. This isn't something that…

Um ... no. Look, I'm a white woman. I never had the pressure to tan when I was a teenager, but I did feel self conscious about other things ... my hair for instance, because it was thick and didn't do what I wanted it to do. And obviously blotchy skin and acne and all that. Yes there are beauty pressures put on white…