@reallyred: I wish it had worked that way for me. I grew up eating a wide variety of minimally-processed foods, but as soon as I had the means to feed myself junk, I went nuts. I wasn't even deprived as a child - I had occasional chips, cookies and soda - so it wasn't like I was incited to rebel against deprivation. I…

@Oleander: I don't think it is inherently wrong, and I am going to tell you why. In my opinion, there is nothing objectively wrong with finding small, hairless bodies desireable. Children are not developmentally capable of consenting to sex, but pedophiles often imagine that they are. If that is a part of their…

@Ginger Gal: English isn't her first language. Conveying subtleties like that may escape her.

@Francie Pants: English is not her first language, and she is talking in the context of an interview, not a University lecture. It's assumed that it's her own point of view being presented, not pontifications on the nature of humanity. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt.

@booter26: In his defense, he approached that project as a Jew, and therefore the NT was not as important to him. When you read the book, he explains it with more clarity than I can muster at the moment.

@booter26: She's pretty feisty. In "The Year Of Living Biblically", when she was menstruating and he told her that he could not sit on any surface she had also sat upon; he came home from work and was blithely informed by her that she'd sat on every chair, bench and stool in the house. She was protesting that law…

@katieupsidedown: Try reading the graphic novels first. They are great, and also Canadian! Woo Can-Con!

Maybe I am too political these days, with my anti-oppression-blog-reading and whatnot, but is it out of line to be bothered by the implication at the beginning that women/girls are dumb because they enjoy Twilight, but men/boys are too smart to see it as anything other than crap? Also, the "insecure female friend[s]"…

@Good Cop Baby Cop: I am so sorry for the loss of your Grandfather. He sounds like he was a very principled man.

@Cinnamoncanuck: There is a counter-rally happening on June 13th on Montreal. Maybe there is one happening in your city, too!

@lostinalunchbox: You are so amazing. Please put your hand on the nape of your neck and give yourself a pat on the back, from me. There are no words for the gratitude I feel for health care workers like you.

@Stagtasticfantastic: It's not at all scientific, but I have a theory that misogynists are drawn to hurting prostitutes because the most sexist ideas out there are based on viewing relations between men and women as transactions. Therefore, women who have literal transactionary relations with men are the most obvious…

@zeppogirl: No kidding. I would rip the staff a new one. I come from a long line of staunchly pro-choice women, and no one is going to ruin that proud legacy with cheap crap from China. If my child decides differently, I want it to be based on careful thought and soul-searching.

@kityglitr: It's not to say that all women over a certain age are infertile. But all eggs have an expiration date. Sometimes it's 39, sometimes it's 47, sometimes (rarely) it's 26.

"reproductive choice isn't a fundamental right if it's only limited to people who have internal reproductive systems."

She looks great in that dress. No wonder she caught a man!

@browan04: Yes, they are. The coercion of poverty and isolation forces women to do things every day that they would not do if they had the resources to make a different choice.

@browan04: Reading your post, it occurs to me that I am one of "those" feminists who believes that one cannot be anti-choice and also a feminist. I appreciate your other points that religiosity does not necessarily mean someone is anti-feminist, for example (I am religious, myself), and the assumptions that people…

@EmD_MD: Awesome. But, respectfully, she's an oddity, not the mainstream. It would be ridiculous to claim that 100% of the strippers in the world look like centrefold candidates, which is why I should have made it more clear that I wasn't making that claim. But in the context of discussing stripping as a social…

@portmanteau: I am not doubting that they exist, but they are such a small minority that their existence is insignificant when we are discussing this issue at a hypothetical level, as a social phenomenon. In 90% of the stripping world, those same women wouldn't be seen as profitable. Their success is partially due to…