Oh, American Girl. I've been obsessed for years (still am), and a few months ago I went to their Massachusetts store with a friend to check it out. While I do think the catalog (which I inexplicably got in the mail last week, to my delight) presents it well by putting it with other regular stuff, the stores (or at…

Well yeah, that happens to me too, but that means we still need to move away from this idea that all breasts are either A, B, C, or D (and the related idea that that is a static thing that relates only to something like a specific volume or diameter), because if it's possible to speculate about someone's height, let's…

This is gross and awful but unsurprising. More points for being a librarian! We can wear whatever we want (at least with regards to personality; there are still dress codes for basic modesty and all, obvs).

Hear hear! I'm the daughter of two teachers and the sister of another, and I hate hate hate seeing teachers get shat on when nobody knows how their days go and nobody wants to acknowledge the socioeconomics behind student achievement (or lack thereof), the complete uselessness of standardized tests, and the fact that…

Sometimes I hate so much being American, because it means that no matter what I do not to, I participate in stuff like this.

This is great, and it's probably a lot better than the blog post I recently wrote about this, in which I invented a superheroine named Ball-buster girl who can lecture you on street harassment and literally bust your balls by doing so. Anyway, it's disgusting, it has nothing to do with your career, and I also don't…

Nope. I grew up in Tucson and thought it was bad, but I almost miss getting leering and nasty comments from guys in trucks now that I live in Boston, where I cannot go a week without being harassed for being so daring as to wear clothing and walk down the street to work.

Did she not explain in the article you ostensibly read that in fact this happens in public whenever (are you saying that everybody in the world recognizes her from her films? I sincerely doubt that), and also that it happened before she got into this?

Sorry, I meant "racialized," not "racialist." My brain hurts from grad school.

It's absolutely true, I think, that modeling is an inherently racist and racialist, as are basically all things. But that doesn't make it okay. The other day I was reading the blog hourglassy, where they quoted this: "normal women buy clothes to make them look good; whereas the fashion industry buys models to make the…

This is a great piece, and I, for one, think you're awesome. I think it's interesting how much I identified with your first part about how you were raised with independence to develop your own responsibility, etc etc, because I feel like I was raised that way, too, and I think I freak people out with my decisions…

I didn't even know photoshop could do that! Can I get some photoshop on my 30Gs, please? But I feel like this is as good a time as any to bring up that women's media (like *cough* Jezebel) could use this as an opportunity to talk about fashion and breasts, like you did with inappropriateness, but also maybe learn that…

Also, I'm down with correcting people (I do it all the time), but your sentence had a comma splice. #somethingaboutglasshouses

Because we're told we "look better," because then we get hired for jobs, because it helps us blend into the world and avoid white people thinking they can just touch our hair when they don't know us, because it helps us lie low when we don't want to be stared at for being exotic, because sometimes it's better to look…