Bullies often don't think they are doing anything wrong because to them, lording it over someone they see as unworthy or inferior is appropriate and just. When we begin anti-bullying education with the message "Don't treat other people in a hurtful/inappropriate way", which is what most anti-bullying messages boil…

You said: "I also haven't found creativity, originality, free-thinking and the rest to be much appreciated in politics, business and most social circles." and BearDownCBears added: "Also: creative, original, freethinking people tend to overvalue themselves, and those traits in general."

Fellow cynic, checking in. These kinds of anecdotes and the assumptions that follow are another way of perpetuating the myth of the "self-made" person, who can generate their own opportunities and privileges at will. The truth is that no one who doesn't live as an off-the-grid self-subsisting farmer is self-made, we…

Thanks for the hugs. She really was amazing, you know. She was compassionate and intelligent, she had a green thumb and was a great cook. She raised me to be a feminist; she even named me after Emma Goldman. She worked tirelessly to educate and raise up underprivileged women in her community and was a YWCA woman of…

It's so sweet that you're going with him, I hope your visit to the beach is meaningful and healing for you both.

Thank you, I hope your Sunday is peaceful as well, if it can't exactly be happy.

I'm a Little Monster, and I endorse this message.

That is a relief, since I met May and liked her before she was a candidate with the Greens and felt betrayed by the coverage of her other statements. But, I am still disappointed that it took her three years to muster up the energy to clarify her stance. I remember sharing the other quotes with my Mom because I had…

I can't vote for the Green Party because they are rather pro-corporate interest. They are the biggest example of "greenwashing" I can think of, actually.

She is a control freak in everything but her emotional life, which is a neurotic mess. She turned to Special K for help fixing her abusive marriage, she turns to it for help in calming the howling wilderness of terror that she sees whenever she is confronted with her own mortality.

Elizabeth May's environmental activism is indeed badass, but she is also anti-choice. She's bragged about "talking women out of" having abortions.

Eff mother's day. My Mom is dead, and she shouldn't be, and she was amazing. Eff it.

The woman in the photo accompanying this article looks EXACTLY like my wife - hair, face, body, everything. I'm going to wake her up and ask if she ever did any stock photo modeling.

I doubt this puts much weight on their consciences. They did this because they thought they were better and more worthy than Prince, and they probably still do think that. Winner takes all, and they won.

Word, I'm a lifelong fan and imo, she was at her most beautiful around '04 when she gained a little weight in an attempt to boost her fertility.

Wow. She pressured Guy to get circumcised? This would explain some of his... issues.

I can't speak for anyone else, but as someone who is looking forward to parenthood, I don't see the "practical difficulties" as all that bothersome. Some people genuinely don't care about flying to Paris for a weekend or being able to have sex on the dining room table at four o'clock on a Saturday or some of the other…

This place is like a knife in the face, compared to the other feminist/womanist blogs I read. The commenters here are getting more and more clueless about their privilege, ableism and racism. When I started reading Jez in the summer of '09, this place was on an upswing in terms of the tone of the commentariat. Now…

How about we back the eff off of everyone and mind our own damn businesses wrt how we look and eat and live. Problem solved.

Chouquette is frickin adorable! This is my Mister Darcy. I always dreamed of having a hedgie for a pet. I got Darcy a year ago and I adore him.