Slow your roll, Bromadeus. Fighting body-shaming with body-shaming is a bad move.

You are angry, and you have a right to be, but you are arguing things I never said — you're arguing your own assumptions.

I AM thinking logically about morality, though. I mentioned at the end of my post that the two concepts are not mutually exclusive, but you can't force yourself to somehow feel things you just don't feel. For example, I logically recognize that drone strikes are A Bad Thing That Need To Be Stopped and will logically…

"The truth is Americans place a higher value on their own lives than any other people."

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Boo hiss!

Normally I hate the term 'politically correct', but I think that's about as accurate a way to put it as I can think of. Policing other people's emotions over an obviously tragic event in order to score some kind of political savvy points is pretty awful.

NOOOOOO. I bet the air I'm breathing was also once exhaled by a victim of genocide. I am never going to breathe again.

No need to be guilty at all — to be quite honest with you, I suspect that at least some of the people posting this stuff is doing so to portray an image of being an active, politically-savvy person without actually giving a real shit deep down.

It actually is pretty logical to be more upset over events closest to you, if you break it down. Humans are tribal, social creatures; we band together, we form alliances, we help one another because it betters our own condition, too — the more integrated someone's existence is to yours, the bigger the gap when they're…

I'm in the camp that says that you don't have to give that much of a shit about this stuff at all, if you don't want, but at least be honest about your involvement. I'm pretty upfront about the issues I care about, and I just don't have enough fucks to go around. I recognize things like drone strikes are sad and need…

This attitude always strikes me as unnecessarily self-righteous and, quite frankly, an almost embarrassing level of being obtuse. It's what I like to call the "kids in Africa" argument.

Can anyone remind me of what race Timothy McVeigh was? Oh, and if you could let me know when and from where Adam Lanza and James Holmes immigrated, I seem to have forgotten.

Lord Jesus in Jerusalem, Jezebel writers, can you please cite the numbers you pull out instead of just talking out your ass? This Politifact article has some interesting shit to say on the subject:

I found this little gem out in the wild (AKA Target).

If you haven't read the original article, I encourage you to do so; there are other troubling indicators this article left out. I'm like you, I'm not a stickler for gender roles or expression in the least, but I think there's a lot of middle ground that isn't being adequately covered. Articles like this make it sound…

Agreed; I used to get into my brother's Legos (much to his dismay), but I also owned a lion's share of Barbie paraphernalia. There are other, more realistic and constructive ways to handle hierarchical gender norms - when a man is trying to tell you that you're a fake geek girl, you can't just remove the video games…

Is it really appropriate to pooh-pooh the micromanaging? You can be interested in what you deem "legitimate change" while also preventing yourself from going straight off the deep end in your attempt to do so. Changing the way we look at gender roles doesn't have to be either "hands-off" OR "hover over the children…

I'm glad you posted this — I thought I was the only one who was REALLY uncomfortable with images of a woman lighting a flag on fire in front of the Paris mosque. :\