I thought Whedon’s work was misogynistic based on the content of Firefly, Buffy, and Dollhouse. I was disappointed to learn I wasn’t reading into things too much.  However, I’m glad Whedon has finally fallen out of favor with my fellow feminists. I recognize that there are feminist elements in Buffy, but for me they…

Fuller House is nominated for best children’s program, but not Steven Universe? 

I can’t even understand that logic. I have seen them go after parents who support their transgender children’s transition and call them child abusers. I’m like: if you believe gender is a social construct and should be abolished, why are you against gender self-determination in children? You say that transgender…

The funny thing is, I am a gender-non-comforming cisgender woman.  I’m the type of woman radfems are supposedly invested in protecting/saving from extinction or whatever.  Yet, my transgender comrades have been so incredibly supportive and loving in our fight against patriarchy.  They actually have my back.  Unlike…

That’s the one. I avoid typing her name because I don’t want to give her the attention she craves.

I can definitely agree and also want to normalize periods, breastfeeding, reproduction, etc. However, being a mom myself, I would want to welcome transmen to a pregnancy class or nursing support group. My own opinion is that we can fight stigma around reproduction and be inclusive of transgender people at the same…

She also doesn’t seem to think non-binary people exist.

It is funny you say you’re for the abolition of gender, but believe there is such a thing as an opposite gender and that womanhood stems from biology.

I don’t think anyone is calling for an end to women’s only spaces, just those that exclude on a basis of genitalia. And, I don’t see how women’s only spaces are any less empowering by including transwomen.  I am part of a feminist martial arts school that was founded in the early 80s in a context of women learning how…

Try using the term “TERF” in a tweet and watch what happens. They watch for the term to be used to cry about being oppressed. There is a particular notorious TERF lawyer and writer who watches for her name to be used, and then threatens legal action against anyone who critiques her online.  

When I’ve stood up for my trans sisters, I’ve been accused of using my male privilege and arguing in a masculinist style in order to silence women. I don’t think they believed me when I said I was cisgender. 

I don’t even understand how TERFs can call themselves radical feminists. The old school radical feminists, excluding Janice Raymond, argued for separating gender from biology and extreme pluralism of gender expression. When I’ve engaged so-called radical feminists online they for the most part don’t seem to know their…

I am a pop culture professor, and I love it. But one of the challenges is that students sometimes enroll in your section because it sounds like the “fun” class. And then they are upset that the class has the same workload as the “boring” class on Shakespeare or beat poets.

As an AirBnB host I enjoy hosting but don’t like staying in AirBnBs because I haven’t had good experiences. I made the rookie mistake of booking the cheapest options and not standing up for myself or complaining to the company when I had problems.

Dang! 10 seasons is too much. I could see June’s story ending and more seasons focusing on new characters, but not for a decade. We’ll probably be living in real Gilead by then.

When Nick was driving June to see Hannah, I also hoped they’d grab Hannah and make a break for it to Canada. We learned last week June found new resolve to escape with her unborn child, so I was waiting for an escape attempt all episode.

If this were the kind of series with a tidy ending, Nick would be killed escaping…

The Handmaid’s Tale is about the atrocities done to women of color in the United States—systematic rape, forced reproduction, abduction of children—happening to white women. So yeah, white women should care because what happened to June is happening to real mothers, right now.

Hating the newest iteration of Star Trek: a time-honored tradition!

I wonder whatever happened to the Discovery action figures that were announced last year.

Creation stopped doing cons for my fandom (Xena) a few years ago, and I think we’re better off without them. Fans now organize a Xena-inspired adult summer camp instead, but are careful not to use the name “Xena” to avoid legal troubles.