@BrazenHussy: I have always hated how privilege-blind she was. Usually that kind of privilege-blindness is a prerequisite for being an odious right-wing jackhole, so when her conservatism reared its pustule-ridden head, I was not at all surprised.

@divinelioness: Agreed. It's easy to say horrible things from a silk-draped litter. If she had to live at street level with the plebs she'd have more sense.

How about redefining "beautiful" so that it no longer means "worthwhile", or "virtuous"?

@CassandraSays: ...and once again I remember why I hearted you. This essay was written in a vacuum where male privilege doesn't exist. I would love to see it re-written by someone who has read Privilege 101 and internalized it.

@Vidya108: Some people, who don't believe in the existence of the spirit, see Down's simply as a glitch in the machine. They believe that human beings have evolved to have a certain number of chromosomes, which results in an elegant and smoothly-functioning organism which needs nothing added, and from which nothing…

@Higgins: I was expecting most of the objections to IGB to be centered around this and Savage's general transphobia - and cluelessness about his white male class privilege. The actual arguments in this post are almost so weak as to be strawmen. If bloggers are actually going to address objections to IGB, they should…

This photo makes me want to have a hugging party. HUGGING PARTY!

@xuatastic: I did as well. I think some people are also missing context, because there is a stereotype that "black men don't eat pussy". There are some people who take it as conventional wisdom, but some people have never heard that stereotype. It really depends on where you are from.

Congrats, Noel! He (and Sara) were so cute on Russell Brand's radio show. "Sonny" is kind of a silly name, but at least it isn't "Rag bag". ;)

@muchdrama: She's always been pale. It's her "thing".

@jhelmsly: Nope. The other side of this is that bisexual women end up being mythologized, as if they're unicorns. Brittany and Santana hotness is not because they're bisexual, it's because they are television characters and no one is allowed on tv unless they are hot. Female bisexuality can exist without being for the…

@jhelmsly: Nope. The other side of this is that bisexual women end up being mythologized, as if they're unicorns. Brittany and Santana hotness is not because they're bisexual, it's because they are television characters and no one is allowed on tv unless they are hot. Female bisexuality can exist without being for the…

@jhelmsly: Nope. The other side of this is that bisexual women end up being mythologized, as if they're unicorns. Brittany and Santana hotness is not because they're bisexual, it's because they are television characters and no one is allowed on tv unless they are hot. Female bisexuality can exist without being for the…

@theeternaloptimist: The shoot was supposed to bring to mind old Italian cinema.

@Fricka: I grew up east of Sioux Lookout, and even I remember this. I hope the Inquiry nails the cops' asses, and asses of everyone who didn't think these women mattered enough, to the effing floorboards. No one deserves to end up as "ground tissue" in a freezer, no matter what they do. Although, for unrelated…

@cookiecutter: I can see what you mean, but it's hard to empathize. I was raised by a politically active coat-hanger-waving feminist , and I was aware of gender politics before I learned fractions. The lives of the minivan people who never concern themselves about this stuff are so alien to me.

@cookiecutter: It's just so weird; being a hateful person or a criminal are things we are socialized as children to see as undesireable. The pressure to cast that early learning aside and take up the mantle of douchetardiness must be enormous.

@gingersnapper: You and me both, sister. I have never been genuinely loved by a man in my life. I was just lucky to find an amazing woman I love, and marry her thanks to Canada's awesome gay marriage laws.

@SlayBelle: I am just shocked at the people who are categorizing these relationships as "consensual" and comparing it to the trophy wife phenomenon. Most people think of a trophy wife as a woman chosen from one's own culture, who lives in the same economy and, to some extent, has the same opportunities as her groom.…

When women's choices are "do _x_ or starve/live in destitution", and "x" equals "Marry an American you may not love", they cannot be said to be entering into these arragements completely of their own free will.