It’s a fair point, but the problem is that these sorts of throw away whataboutisms are, as RS said, red herrings.

98 percent of scientists agree we are the main source of carbon emissions and climate change, but yet we are supposed to waste our time talking to climate deniers, who deny the facts without any shred of evidence themselves. List them right here so we can discredit them in about 5 minuts time

I somehow got both the autism and the sarcasm.

Just like the easiest way to turn a Christian into an atheist is to get them to read the bible, the easiest way to get someone to accept that rightwingers are dumb as fuck is to get them to read what they write.

It says more about you than anyone else that you think identifying with someone on the spectrum is somehow a bad thing.

Jesus how do you do anything in life being so fucking stupid. This child on the spectrum is fucking light years smarter than you. Your level of stupidity would be incredible if it wasn’t so fucking sad that you’re a reflection of the US public education system.

That’s why Graves is the only one braying laughter at his stupid picking-up-trash joke.... She’s just staring at him like he’s a fucking moron, because he is. She doesn’t have that “automatic smile” problem that most girls and women are conditioned into by that age. Blessed be!

Goddamn am I in love with the current generation of teens and young adults.  

Fun fact: My hero Greta Thunberg has Aspberger’s syndrome (true story), which in this case she uses as a superpower, cause Greta has zero fux to give.

This latest dodge on climate responsibility is as pernicious as it is shallow and it’s been weird to read it put forth so often even by people who should know better. Just because someone else is doing a bad thing doesn’t mean you have license to also do the bad thing.

And in a larger sense, just because you doing a…

She was anorexic as a teenager and then got hit by a car and laid up in hospital and had to relearn how to walk. She’s lucky she was able to rebound from this and become who she is today. This got her priorities in order and she understands what celebrity culture and influencers did to give her body issues. She's not…

Jesus, thank you for this. I read that and thought “Did this person literally call a dark brown Indian actress who has been amplifying womanism, queer people and body acceptance a WHITE FEMINIST?”

I’m seriously confused by what I’m reading on this site. I’ve never had weight issues, I am tall and thin, and I’ve also never heard the end of it from anyone around me. Women and men have been commenting on my body since I was ten. It’s partly why I’ve never been fat- because I’ve never been allowed to be fat. This…

Honestly, as someone who’s had issues with this in the past (haha, who hasn’t?), moving from “you need to love yourself!” to “things are fine.” was a really, really good switch. I’m fine. I don’t need to love my body or whatever, just accept it and treat it well. And having a therapist who let me set that goal (“I…

I came here to say this exactly. Why is Jez suddenly hating on every woman who speaks out on something, regardless of whether it’s a good or bad message?

“has been co-opted recently by women of totally socially-acceptable, skinny shapes and sizes who think the movement is just for anyone who feels good or wants to show off their armpit hair”...You guys know that Jameela has a history of eating disorders since childhood, right? And that she was severely fat-shamed by…

Man, people really can’t win. Jameela Jamil has been saying mostly the right things for a long time, and backs it up by taking celebrities who hawk dangerous ideas and products to task. So she’s not the first to say these things, does that mean she shouldn’t say them? Or that she deserves this snotty recap of her…

At first I would expect “pro life” people to be outraged by this, but then I realized it’s in a jail cell, so they’ll just respond with “this never would have happened if she didn’t break the law”. 

Indeed. That baby was born under a great deal or duress and stress and deserved a lot better.

Not did her child. Sometimes we forget that the child has to endure the labor, birthing process, and go through being born as well as the mother. The child didn’t deserve to not have medical care during and after birth. (I say child because once a fetus is born that is what the fetus becomes) The child could have died…