Oooorrr... maybe it's because of homogeneous beauty standards plus cosmetic procedures becoming more affordable/common/accessible? Eh, easier to blame the selfie. It's a cry for help, after all.

I don't always agree with your comments, but you hit this nail pretty firmly on the head. It's so irritating to see bloggers spending so much time calling out and/or defending celebrities in the name of feminism, and even more irritating that the same people tend to tear apart famous women who actually have really…

There's also this weird argument I keep seeing that insists she's Bad For Women because she isn't a hypersexualized pop star constantly talking about how sexy and empowered she is. Like we can't have both? It's fine that the sexy ladies are doing their thing, but I relate waaay more to the TSwift model of grown…

Don't worry, there's a 50-50 chance it'll just turn into another Beyoncé circlejerk instead.

Just a good reminder not to buy beauty products from a source you can't verify is legitimate. (I see this with makeup all the time - if it's super cheap on Amazon or Ebay, or you see a Pinterest link to a store selling "discount makeup," it is 100% most definitely too good to be true, and you don't want to end up with…

He's kind of a major pop star in England.

As a middle-class white lady who used to really dislike TSwift, it's more that she started to evolve and outgrew the issues I used to have with her. I'm still not a huge fan of how she seems to base a lot of her relationship songs on her own victimization ("This guy hurt me! He's so mean! This other guy hurt me! He's…

I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Drew and Ellen were together around that time? I remember it being more or less an open secret.

Same. And I think it did permanent damage - I went off the pill almost a year ago and I still can't orgasm, whereas before I was on it, I was a happy, multi-orgasmic lady with a healthy libido. I respect that it works for a lot of ladies, but for me, it just fucked me up.

In which case, Lupita's backlash will come in the form of "Ugh, she's so fake. Everything she does is so calculated and she tries too hard not to make waves. Why doesn't she ever say what she really thinks?" And after a few weeks of furious circlejerking, the hivemind will move on to the next target. It's exhausting…

Personally, I think I would have rather seen her just leave him out of the speech altogether. It might not have been the right occasion to openly condemn him, but a silent snub could have been just as powerful.

To everyone trying to create a narrative of a false rivalry between these two extremely talented women — you look so stupid right now. You do realize that there can be more than one successful woman at a time, right? They're different actresses with very different styles, and God willing, they'll both have long and…

"I wish she'd trip and fall onto a big-ass knife! Lupita Lupita Lupita!" Am I doing feminism right, guys? I can't tell who I'm supposed to like anymore.

Yuna is one of the wealthiest athletes in the world. She can already afford whatever car she wants.

I'm just going to sit in my corner waving my homemade June Squibb pennant while the Lupita fangirls and JLaw apologists rip each other to shreds tomorrow.

As a queer woman, I can't stop giggling. That's even better than the lesbian I know whose last name is Glasscock.

Hon, I was born in a third-world country, grew up in a single-parent household in one of the most impoverished parts of the US, and have devoted a not-insignificant chunk of my free time to progressive labor and economic activism (in addition to working for a progressive news startup). Class consciousness is not…

As a struggling writer in Brooklyn, I do not give a shit about whether or not Lena Dunham is "authentic." Her experience isn't my experience and it doesn't have to represent me or anyone else. The fact that Girls is opening the door for more shows created by young women - Broad City, for instance - is good enough for…

Silly me, I thought selfies were still a cry for help.