Haha, yeah, DP gives me the willies. It's awesome if it works for you, but I can't deal with a hormone cocktail that causes one to stop having a period. It's just too strong for me. I was using the copper IUD and that was okay except that of course the two I tried were expelled, and they both came out bent for some…

I'm literally too small for IUDs (when one expelled, I had another one implanted, then it expelled), hormonal contraceptives seriously fuck with me, and condoms are not practical. My partner wants to take birth control so I don't have to, and I think it's a great idea. Come on, Vasalgel!

Jeez, lots of jerky comments here. 15 is still a kid, and to work that hard on something and be told that you couldn't wear it was probably really crushing for her. I understand the component that she could be preying on kids, using the costume to get close to them, but Disney probably asked her to change so she…

I always thought Robyn was the one who got the horrible call, and she's putting herself in the shoes of the new girlfriend.

They're called "flyover states" for a reason.

I lived in the Midwest, specifically Minneapolis, and it sharply contrasted with my native NorCal. Even though there were a lot of GLBTI folks, a lot of people held antiquated views. As the daughter of lesbians, it wasn't too fun.

They said they didn't know what the initial event was that started all this... Midwest, maybe something about GLBTI stuff and bigotry?

I love that the author discusses her conflicted feelings even though she knew she wanted the abortion. Abortion is a very complicated issue because of all the different areas of a person's life it relates to, it's so complicated we still don't really know how to talk about it on a broad level, so I'm really glad to…

I totally agree. Ladies are discriminated for their looks whether "too plain" or "too much".

I think she may have purposefully dressed conservative (as one does for a job interview) and dressed more typically on her first day. Women with big boobs shouldn't be forced to wear turtlenecks when they go to the office, and I really do think her employers felt that her cup size was too provocative (sort of like how…

My high school's dress code wasn't upheld that rigidly by the administration, but I also graduated in 2009, which is a very different generation of kids than the Gen Xers, which is what I immediately thought of when I read your comment. Well, that and Catholic school. I feel that although she may have hiked her skirt…

Is the joke here that she doesn't look like the strippers in the movies? Because, honestly, her comments seem okay to me.

Yes, but since we're discussing an English-language book by an American author that was made in to a film in America, the conversation was tacitly limited to issues in America.

Ethnicity is a non-issue as they're all from Panem and have no knowledge of other countries, but race is a big deal from an academic perspective and as commentary of the current racism we're entrenched in. It seems that we can't make a film adaptation of a post-racial world. We have to make everyone white. Also, what…

By nondescript, I meant there was no physical image associated with the storyline, like a stick figure. Also, you're wrong. There's another Jezebel article that addresses the issue of imagining a white character even if you are a person of color, but basically, because most of the media we consume depicts whites and…

Personalizes as white people. We are living in a racist system and we are all helping to maintain the status quo. We don't know we are, but even if you as a white person has friends or even a partner who is not white, we are afforded different privileges that socialize us to maintain the system. We are socialized in a…

Anyone who doesn't see the problem with pushing for a Robert Pattinson type, obviously didn't take their Soc 101 class in college. Edited to add: You're not one of the "good" white people just because you can admit that "POC"s (come on, that acronym is irritating as fuck, right?) can be hot. People are hot. Other…

The movies are terrible anyway. The books have a lot of psychological and emotional components that are way over a 15 year old's head, and that's why it's appealing to adults. Hopefully the series will be rebooted in a decade or so, and whoever makes those films can capture the post-racial feel and the…

I think the eroticism in the original ad was intentional and the notion that a slight expression change and the covering up of the butt crack and tanline will cover up the original intent is absurd. It feels that the agency really likes the iconic appeal of the original ad (which was no doubt misogynistic), but is…

"AIDS or *something*" - how apathetic yet simultaneously degrading can you be?