I guess the lady giving the talk doesn't know the proper terms either. The pink paper (really?) is the perineum. That's the part that cuts cut or torn. She's a little melodramatic with that blow out, too, bc tears will happen in the same area as the cut. She should have torn the paper from below to be more…

No, it's a reference to a famously horrifying scene in the film about Tina's abuse by Ike. I'll let the author of the piece linked explain it, because she's a much better writer than I am:

Hah! I was thinking of the FGM thing. But I was actually thinking of it in agreement with you. I think of response to partriarchy the same way I think if what we learn about human evolution in Bio101: evolution doesn't work toward anything. It anot looking toward some kind of endgame or creating the perfect species.…

Thank you. It is important to discuss the fact the fact that the patriarchy hurts both MEN and woman and that both men and women are responsible for perpetuating it. The equality that feminism wishes to achieve benefits everyone exept those who wish to gain power via oppression.

*cough* Madonna *cough*

Ehhh...she's not dissing Tina (so to speak). She and Jay Z are stupid on this one. It's a reference to rough sex they like to engage in.

I once read, in a jezebel comment section I think, something along the lines of "the patriarchy isn't run by men, but by patriarchs," which sums it up pretty well sometimes.

Alright, well that isn't anything I want to come even close to, so I'm gonna back off then.

I do think vthecool was absolutely right about:
"If people stopped talking about oppression as a "men" vs "women" phenomena and understood patriarchy is not the rule of men over women but the oppression of groups of men over…

This. When gender equality is truly realized and we move away from a patriarchal system that locks men in roles they may not want or need, men will have more freedoms to choose who and what they want to be. Men won't have to worry about being seen as weaklings or wusses for wanting to stay home with the kids. Men…

It's not other men. It's patriarchy. Women participate in, profit off of, and perpetuate the patriarchy just as men do.

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, with one caveat. Your comment seems to suggest that women play no part in contributing to the patriarchy we all suffer from. Even Jezebel is guilty of body shaming in some instances, there is no way to pin that on men. It's true that men are mostly to blame, but I would…

Most men in our society are oppressed, through violence, capitalism and consumerism. But it's not "feminists" who are oppressing men in that way, it's other men. A minority of men, mostly the same ones that also oppress women. If people stopped talking about oppression as a "men" vs "women" phenomena and understood…

Apparently Jay-Z and Beyoncé both find extreme, protracted domestic violence to be sexy. And possibly funny, as well. Reportedly (I can't bear to watch), in the video she mouths the words along with him, smiling.

I tried to start up this conversation too, over here: http://groupthink.jezebel.com/feminist-beyon…

And in gif form...

Take the shot, Anna Mae.

I would bang him like a screen door in a hurricane. And now, back to my classy, housewifey self.

These are lovely! I'd buy this fragrance, too. I hope one day, these kinds of pictures are everywhere!

Thanks! And yes, Burt!! <3

Thanks, this is great!