this is the heart of the matter: stuff for men are neutral. even with the most testosterone drenched action flick, girlfriends are still brought along. women even go solo or with their female friends. but you ask your boyfriend to see a woman movie and prepare to be rejected. my boyfriend is pretty good at minding…

yes, the pile on effect is high here. stupid comment jump.

you may have a point, but by bringing this up when this topic isn't at hand, you're derailing the conversation, so i'm going to dismiss the post. if you'd like to talk specifically about the dangers of being a black youth in a white man's world, then we'll be set.

unfortunately, staying inside isn't even enough.

louis c.k. exemplifies what you're saying and the reality of it perfectly on his show.

'omg words in a certain context can hurt people, so annoying!' nope, this is how the world works. 'a smoking hot asian babe' means a hot women of asian descent. 'a smoking hot oriental babe' comes out as 'a hot woman who is exotic and docile and will make a good little wifey because asian women are second to their…

as long as you don't pay $125 for a string necklace, you're still good.

(even if he's not canadian)

i'm not a particularly strong person and often struggle with corks in pressurized wine bottles (i.e. champagne). if a twist off top allows me to open the bottle all by my own self, i'd welcome it.

as a woman who has that 1 in 5 odds of being assaulted, this sounds terrifying. both for women who are riding with strangers and for women drivers looking to make a buck. the result of less people calling traditional city-licenses taxis is that fewer of them can afford to stay on the road. while taxi driving isn't…

"Hey son, gay people can play football." That's how you tell them. This only works, of course, if you can pull your head out of your ass.

thank you for pixelating the dead dogs one!

he could have done a 30 second overview like "for our viewers at home who might not have been following this story, janet mock is a woman who was assigned a male gender at birth based on her genitalia. janet and her family figured out in her early years that janet was actually a girl, not a boy, despite how the…

here's a site i check out once in a while. the author lurks around extremist mra sites and posts his own rebukes on his blog. have a look. i can assure you that jezebel.com, at it's most extreme, is nothing compared to the sites he gets his ammo from.

fyi, we feminists have this same trouble. not sure if serious or trolling.

Four things you never get involved with online: Race, gender rights, religion, and politics. If you stay away from those, you'll do okay on the internet.

wouldn't mind it with clooney :)

i remember a black friend in university telling me about how he was running late for his first history class and when he walked in, he was struck by a sea of whiteness. i immediately thought of that when i read this article, and how it's likely a common experience for a poc in many parts of this continent (i'm in…

went to school in ottawa and i've had both. miss 5 classes and you fail, do terribly on attendance and you will lose out on an easy 15%. the miss 5 classes class was a 4th year women studies-focused canadian studies course.