There’s so much here to unpack, but to say the least - you are positively choking on your many types of privilege. People from oppressed and marginalized backgrounds are not complicit in their oppression and marginalization, in any way. Ever. That is like...Decent Human 101 (though I’m sure you could really vibe with…

Apparently this is just generally known, but seriously, how does one actually CLEANSE oneself with soap?? I’ve tried washcloths, those mesh soap socks, body brushes, bath poufs, and just plain bare hands. It’s always the same result - the soap slips away repeatedly, leaves weird residue and my skin ends up feeling…

I NEED THIS TO BECOME A SERIES. Seriously, there are so many of us with already-pissy skin that has been so aggravated by mask-wearing and/or exercising and/or sweating and/or makeup wearing over the past 15 months.

Firstly, no one is going around pointing at ultrasounds of zygotes or fetuses and saying ‘that is nothing, just an empty uterus’. That’s why there are terms for what happens in gestation. So go nuts! You are 100% free to state that a fetus is a fetus. What you are *not* free to do (well, theoretically not free, but…

Do you know why people don’t come out until much later in life? What do you think the social landscape is like for gay men?

You don’t hear women claiming that we are held to unattainable standards of beauty, and you don’t think we ever have been? And you don’t think that dating apps make this unattainable female beauty standards situation worse for women?

What city/country/region do you live in? I would LOVE to move somewhere that women…

Honestly it’s Khloe’s recent(ish) plastic surgery that has me freaked out the most. Like....fully HALF of her nose is gone!?!?

At the very least some people were racist, elitist snobs who never wanted her around and acted like it whenever they could (and as only British people can). Also at the very least a bunch of the ppl who still dislike her for inexplicable reasons decided it would be mutually beneficial to dig up this allegation years…

You definitely can’t make anyone see the light, and trying to do that only leads to frustration and burnout (I don’t think this is acknowledged when some progressives have said ‘white people need to gather their people’ - a gross oversimplification at best, and one that is much more applicable for other racial/ethnic…

I think it’s a balancing act between protecting one’s own mental health and taking on the discomfort that one can bear. From what I’ve heard from my black and brown friends, the notion of avoiding racists because it’s (pick the most relevant) insulting/infuriating/depressing/energy-sucking (etc) is a privileged white…

I’m interested in what you mean by holding friends and family accountable. Calling them out and then never speaking to them again? Dis-inviting from family events? Getting into tiffs on Facebook? This is a subject I personally care about a lot, but I think unfortunately those who should be holding other white people…

How long, do you reckon, before the anti-choicers latch onto this in an equally sinister and ridiculous way? : /

Any situation (besides, obviously, private ones) in which people are anthropomorphizing a zygote/embryo/fetus gives me a nagging sense of Reproductive Justice dread - kind of like menstrual cramps. Or a back…

Thank you for sharing this! I think mental health is a factor that a lot of, shall we say, rigid white bougie types just don’t consider. I both work in the mental health field and have experienced mental health challenges - best believe I KNEW confining myself to my house/park/grocery store was going to cause some…

I can see where you’re coming from, as someone whose friends have stopped reaching out. BUT also, as a mental health professional and someone with a MH diagnosis - a huge part of the problem is normies such as yourself thinking that those with depression, anxiety, OCD, agoraphobia etc are deliberately and selfishly…

I’m curious as to how you think our society ‘panders’ to those with mental illness. Are laypeople being too open-minded and considerate? Is this a situation of ‘special snowflakes’ who are making too many demands?

1) It *is* still a societal expectation and non-conformists are def still judged (possibly somewhat less true among the Jez/Gawker commentariat, which skews progressive)

My two cents: there’s a lot of people commenting who are cozied up at home with their families, partners, pets, and/or who are still going to work. For those of us who are single and live absolutely by ourselves (and often work at home) - I feel there’s an inappropriately short-sighted and alarmingly huge amount of…

I think one of the most important things to remember is that just because some element of the ‘justice’ system decides things in a certain way....it doesn’t mean the decision is actually *just* (or the best compromise, etc). Judges and courts get things wrong all. the. time. - especially with marginalized populations…

I was just going to make the same suggestion! I’m a social worker so I know well

my friend sells those and I have never known what to say (esp at the ‘party’ she invited me to)! feminism recommends the truth...but she is one of those SAHMs who took this up bc she was dying of boredom and needed money for her family. I hate how these companies prey on women in her situation