So if a female artist wants to be sexual in her videos, because she likes nudity and is comfortable with sex, she is always selling herself according to the patriarchal paradigm? If you are never even going to listen to what these women are saying, how are you different from the patriarchy itself?

You cannot objectify yourself... Why don't we trust when women assert their sexuality and claim to be comfortable with it, and let them own it?

I think in general,

Thank you! I'm reading it now. And I was totally sort of outraged and angry and up in arms when Jezebel/Gawker did those world cup thighs series. Hah.

Hmm. I do think feminism is focused on women, of course, as women are easily the more oppressed group in the society, and feminism is a movement about pushing for equality by empowering women. But ultimately, I believe it is for women and men both, which is why men can be feminists, women can be feminists, we all can…

I'm not sure if this is the way you debate, and I do apologize if this is completely unrelated and you really have no intention of doing it, but do you have a habit of accusing people of being emotional, irrational, angry or upset just so you can sound like the calm debater and others are just out of line? You seem to…

As I said in my previous comment, I thought your comment summed up a lot of the attacks against Jezebel as a whole - assuming that every Jezebel writer thinks the same and every women on this website thinks the same - and I apologize if it was misplaced, or if your intention was not that.

Hi Dac Hexameter. I think I wanted to reply to you particularly because your comment was on top and it summed up what other comments were accusing Jezebel about, so I apologize if it seemed random to you, or if there is any point I wrongly accused you of.

I find myself empathizing with your comment and also being repelled by it. Yes, I do think it is true that as a white person, it would be impossible for her or many other white women to completely understand what many women of color have to go through. But that does not mean they can't think for themselves. Yes some…

I am not a particular fan of Taylor Swift, and I do think that sometimes she says things that plays into virgin/whore dichotomy - about how she "finds it easy to keep her clothes on," or how she says she isn't a feminist because it's not boys against girls(which shows she has no idea about feminism even though she…

I don't think nudity is degrading, and I think enjoying nudity is just sex positive(unless you are Terry Richardson, who enjoys making vulnerable women uncomfortable on camera). I do think that it is up to people and the subjects to draw a line on what is offensive and not contributing to gender equality. I think that…

I don't think nudity is degrading, and I think enjoying nudity is just sex positive(unless you are Terry Richardson, who enjoys making vulnerable women uncomfortable on camera). I do think that it is up to people and the subjects to draw a line on what is offensive and not contributing to gender equality. I think that…

You're the bigoted one who can't have a calm discussion without screaming here...

I don't agree with everything Janedough said but your reaction is really not adding to any sort of discussion. Why would you ever say something like that when you know it makes you look more immature than the person you dislike?

Didn't you just make a post about how Katy Perry used to be a modest church girl and then changed, which implied that there is such thing as "modesty"... which there is not. It's just a subjugation tool to shame women whenever they don't fit into the societal mold of so-called "good girls," which you seem to be doing.…

That's ironic, because I saw many posts by you this week condemning Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus for "not being modest."

Agreed with everything, but #2 - then isn't also using a rosary necklace, or buying a t-shirt with ohm buddhist symbol on it offensive? I don't see "borrowing as a culture" as inspiration as offensive, and I don't necessarily think that only that group of people are allowed to used that symbol.

Do we need to call ourselves a bitch? Are we taking back that word or something now?

How do corporations sell teenagers as sex products? I'm not ignoring the obvious here, they definitely do that by creating boy bands and girl bands, who will no doubt be an object of desire. But to pin that as "sexualizing" if they coincidentally bring desirability to other teens or other people, or to say that it's a…

I also think when you say teens are sexualized you mean teen girls. When teenage boys act "sexual," people think that's just them being boys. With girls? Anything they do is under scrutiny and nobody ever thinks they are naturally exploring their sexuality. Everything is "sexualized" and people say that they are the…