That might be more of a regional thing than anything else, though. I definitely feel more pressure to wear a full face of makeup and fit a very specific image of femininity when I'm in the South than in the Northeast, and when I'm visiting family in the Pacific Northwest I get the weird glares and preaching from women…

Women literally say those things all the time. Outside of certain online feminist spaces where "weaponized femininity" is a buzzword, and makeup blogs/forums/subreddits, women give other women shit for wearing makeup all the time. And yet, as someone who loves makeup and wears it all the time (because frankly, I…

You would be surprised. There's already some comments to that effect in the pending replies section, but you get even more of it in real life. A friend of mine has cystic acne and is a master at covering it up, but the shit our friends give her behind her back is astounding. They don't realize that not everyone wants…

Because there's no way that being on a show about sexual violence for 10+ years could have changed the way he thinks about sexual violence or anything. That would be crazy.

As a general guideline, if you haven't dealt with skin conditions that cause other people to harass and exclude you on a regular basis, you probably shouldn't tell other women who have had that experience that their decision to wear makeup in order to get through the day without facing that harassment is the "wrong"…

As a member of several marginalized groups, I would rather focus my energy on destabilizing and destroying the root of said marginalization than on sniping at people who are technically on my side. I'll talk to toxic allies on my own time if their actions constitute a legitimate problem, but in my view, treating…

If you're a progressive who calls out another progressive, you get all of their progressive points and high-fives from other progressives. Meanwhile, being a progressive calling out conservatives is a thankless task with very little instant gratification. I honestly think the impetus behind the…

Eh, at least it's kind of cool-looking semi-nudity and not oiled-up, sucking-on-a-popsicle Maxim-photoshoot semi-nudity. I can get behind it.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for Suey Park in any regard because she is exactly the type of person who makes it hard for activists to be taken seriously. She's a self-promotional opportunist who is constantly tilting at windmills to get her own name in the news, and thoroughly lives up to the "Humorless, Terrible…

Honestly, as someone who is currently taking a year off from my normal career to work on a book - which is actually pretty close to being a stay-at-home cat mom, because I'd be writing if I weren't working anyway - it is a total racket. I thought it would improve my quality of life, but it turns out I actually need…

No kids. A+. Would choose again, no questions asked.

Here are two things I'm pretty sure I know to be true:

FYI, I'm also allergic to soy, most nuts, quite a few fruits, and chocolate. Unless you know how hard it is to move through the world with severe food allergies - it's a fucking nightmare on my end - maybe ease off the snark.

You can still eat whatever the hell you want. I would just like to be able to eat at restaurants and at my friends' houses without having to constantly worry that the latest trendy ingredient, which can be found in trace amounts all over the cookware of anyone who cooks with it, is going to literally kill me. I didn't…

Considering that I'm horrifyingly allergic to coconut, I'm not so broken up over that move. I can't wait until the coconut oil craze dies out.

If you want weed in LA, there are plenty of clean, well-lit medical dispensaries. If he was after drugs (which he probably was), he was looking for something harder, which makes me sad. We don't need another Philip Seymour Hoffman. :(

"Hahaha! You know, like the poors!"

I get chronic migraines, and the first symptom is usually a wave of nausea that comes on crazy fast. I've thrown up on the subway and on the street before (once in the middle of Times Square right after leaving work). Go to a drugstore, get a bottle of water if you didn't already have one, clean yourself up as best…

Oh, I don't know about that. Y'all would be spending an awful lot of that Gawker Media ca$h on the unretouched outtakes from their photo shoots.

I love her. That said, as a woman who does comedy I am really fucking tired of the new female comedian of the moment always being crowned "The New Queen of Comedy." Comedy is not a single country that can only be ruled by one woman at a time. There is room for a bunch of different women at the table. Also, it's not…