That explanation, janemarie, is one of the biggest insults to Midwesterners I’ve ever seen.

Finally, somebody else that appreciates $10 bills. They are totally my favorite. Big enough to be useful, but not so big that I feel like I’m spending a lot of money when I get them from ATM or store cash backs that offer them. They are just the right amount when I do my laundry. And, on road trips cover all my…

Hey now, as much as I agree with the whole “Jackson was a spiky ass-speculum” sentiment, I can’t stand by this “Ugh, $10 bills are lame” business. Tens are the shit, inferior only to fives. A ten, a twenty and two fives is a perfect wallet.

I don’t even bother discussing or really taking their porn articles seriously. They’re so third-wave, over the top, “anything critical of porn is sex-negativity” that there’s really just no point in rebutting. I love Jezebel, but our porn views will always disagree!

Thank you so much for posting this. I can’t believe so many people here are defending Kipnis after her comments about false rape accusations being just as harmful as a professor raping students. It’s really disgusting.

The mattress protest is probably a bridge too far, but I cannot for the life of me understand why a…

I would like for people who have only heard her side of the story to look more into the facts on the ground. Here’s a more fairminded characterization of why there was an investigation into Kipnis: http://dailynous.com/2015/05/30/nor… Excerpt:

Show of hands if you’re pissed that the badass Wildling lady caved because of womanly feelings for teh babies. Fucking seriously.

Yes to all of this. She obscures her own (not very rhetorically coherent) point behind layers of strawman and polemic arguments. It reads very much like a defense of professor/student relationships because they have value as a “learning tool,” and it does nothing but flippantly dismiss all of the bad things (for…

I’m 37, and to me it feels like they’ve replaced traditional intolerances with all kinds of exciting new intolerances.

Agreed, this question always destroys Jezebel. I absolutely think it’s worth having the conversation, though.

I have issues with choice feminism, to be sure. Everyone has the right to make whatever choice they choose, but some choices are inherently more helpful to the mission of equality than others. Now, on the other hand, we all have to live and function in a patriarchal society. This makes it basically impossible to live…

I want to defend her all the time because I feel like people turned on her just because she had the audacity to get older. But she makes it soooooo hard when she goes around calling herself “fun-loving and adventurous.”

If the answer to that “Why?” is ever “Because in this world...” that’s not a reason to go ahead, it’s a reason to extend the question “Why have I written a world where sexual violence is so prevalent?” You can never defer to another part of your own creation as if it ties your hands, you're the writer, it is the way…

Game of Thrones producer said the rape scene gave Sansa an “important turning point.” If it’s just a dramatic device, my question is: Why don’t male characters have this specific kind of “important turning point” as often as female characters?

Thank you, pinkie, for your repeated posts and for making this all about you rather than a remembrance of the feminist struggle. Buried here is a clue about why people react to you as they do. Buy it.

Modern feminism certainly suffers from a distinct lack of anger. Many feminists have become complacent and lazy, have learned to sit on old laurels and placate the men by “choosing” to cooperate with patriarchy and then call that “empowerment” because it was supposedly their “choice” to do so, even though the word…

I feel like Peggy’s hair has always been a disaster ...

I’ve always hated crowded coffee shops that call out people’s names (often after they’ve written them down wrong) and then get mad when you don’t immediately hear them. It feels shitty to have the failings of a disorganized system be blamed on you.

You’ve never been under water in clothes, have you?