Regarding the nitpicking over "getting to work five minutes late" - many of the jobs listed in the first paragraph are service jobs based around shifts, meaning that when you're late for your shift, the person you're supposed to relieve has to stay late. It's really inconsiderate to your co-workers to be late on a…

Issues, issues, issues. No one has read these books more often than I. You make too many errors for this Anne-fan. You write, "The two girls are practically inseparable until an accident has Diana drinking wine instead of one of Marilla's homemade juices. Anne, having never tasted either, did not know the…

I don't really have anything to add that other haven't already expressed, but I just wanted to thank you for giving me another lens to read this through :) It's not often that children's lit really gets critiqued.

Hmm... I suspect we all identify with Anne as we read and thus project our own feelings onto the relationships in the books? One of the things I've loved most about the books is that it does emphasize close female friendships. I always thought that her imaginary friends, and then her enthusiasm and quick attachment to…

This is interesting. As far as secretly gay literary icons go, I find the argument for Jo March being a lesbian more compelling, but I can see how this interpretation would make sense. Anne was always more about friendship and imagination than romance. Though I think this author overlooks some of the Gilbert/Anne…

Maybe she's been taking ballet lessons since she was three and she is just not that great at it. Did you think of that, people? I've been eating solid food since I was less than a year old, but I'm still not an expert. I regularly spill on my chest. No, I haven't had a lot of lessons, but I have been eating at an…

That the second case is not rape. That's the point. It's a big point. "Broken heart" promises — promises to marry or get engaged — are never legally enforceable as fraud or otherwise. It's certainly not rape.

Now, if you pretend to be a doctor and tell a woman she needs your D as treatment, then we're back to…

it's bad. it's tricking someone. it's probably a crime of some other sort. but it's not rape, is the point people are making. not every bad thing men do to women can be called rape.

I mean, to me rape means the absence of consent. If you could prove these men went into it thinking "I'm going to lie about getting married, and sleep with her, then bail," you have probably an argument for fraud.

But in a lot of cases it seems they're young couples, having sex, not being careful, get pregnant - and…

"This is one of the more baffling statements I have ever come across". Well then feast your eyes on Dick Black, a state Senator from Virginia.

Isha, you have completely misunderstood the second instance that you quote (that of the woman who claimed to be raped after a man promised to marry her). In fact, that case was not rape at all - the woman consented to sex, but later revoked her consent, saying her consent was based on his promise of marriage. These…

I don't think exploring feminism within the framework of pop-culture is worthless or anything. All of us, to an extent, have to negotiate trying to be successful in this world while also attempting to dismantle oppressive structures. Much like our "feminist" pop culture icons.

It's just pretty clear to me that bell…

Well, the second wave wasn't "man-hating." Those who spoke out against them accused them of that to keep them from gaining power of any kind.

I could be wrong, but I believe if we examine this with an intersectional lens - big bums have been a part of the beauty ideal. The big bum as beautiful is only novel to white women.

I think the frustration in trying to draw the line of sexual agency is the issues of looking at the individual vs. the group. As in, I as an individual might act provocative because I get a sense of freedom in expressing my sexuality, but if you're talking about female sexual behavior as a whole there is no doubt that…

Hooks is about radical feminist action that dismantles a white supremacist patriarchal capitalist structure.

Beyonce is successful because she has manuevers in and upholds a white supremacist patriarchal capitalist structure.

There's no math here.

Hooks has no time for pop-culture feminism. No time for games. She is…

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

I am glad that you did not dismiss hooks and her viewpoint (like the Gawker article did).

I don't see it as trying to limit agency, but trying to contextualize the space their agency is operating in. (Kind of like being against the war but not hating the troops- you still have to put what the troops do into context, and that makes many troops feel like you hate them, even if you just don't like what they…

She is a business