"She was signifying that, though she's tough, she's still feminine."

Con: We've never heard her say a word on Top Chef that didn't sound like she wasn't struggling to read it off a cue card located a mile away without squinting.

This is TERRIBLE. Who can I look to as a summer fashion role model, if not a late-middle-aged woman whose official work uniform is a voluminous black robe?

@mknfuss: Once, when I was about 13, my stepmother told me that if I didn't believe in god, I couldn't possibly have any morals. Read: If you don't have have MY morals, you don't have ANY morals. I think the same applies here.

"Experts" are trying to get Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall, and Anne Hutchinson left out of Texas social studies textbooks, saying they are "given too much attention.""

"The only 911 call I need is chambering a round."

No no no. Everything, everywhere, is a referendum on white men. They are the fundament (serendipitous pun retroactively intended) on which every other concept in every other context rests. This song really IS about them.

@Porcelina: Right? it's baffling. To my mind, "sex" connotes every party is a consenting participant. Once it's "involuntary" for anybody, that person is no longer a "participant" and it is RAPE.

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs....: If she didn't want people to "have sex" with her without her consent, she shouldn't have been toting around that vagina everywhere. Doesn't she know those are for male enjoyment ONLY?

"One of them had sex with her in the bed of a truck, despite her repeated pleas for him to stop, while others took photos of it, according to the complaint."

Oh god, I saw this article this morning, and it was like someone threw ice water on my soul.

I didn't explicitly identify as a feminist until after leaving my women's college—growing up in a very liberal CA town, and in the college bubble, I always just assumed there were so few real sexist bigots out there that they were a radical fringe of crazies who didn't warrant the attention. And then my foray into the…

"She's a terror on the bench." "She's temperamental, excitable."...."She can be a bit of a bully."

Los Angeles! That's where I'm a Viking!

One of the most striking moments for me as a tv fan and a woman was a tiny one, when the camera takes Peggy's perspective and you see her see all the men looking her over with complete impunity. Even now, decades later, the feeling is familiar.

Looks like someone told Her Honor Judge Sotomayor to make him a sandwich.

@spamanda: I always imagine some actual chemist sitting down with a celebrity and saying, "what are some smells you like?" Although, if that's the case, where's my Eau de Pie?

What I would like to say, if I were clever enough to comment cooly on impossible/useless normative gender roles in the heat of a hissy fit: "Go hunt me a bison."

I am, almost six months later, still deeply, viscerally relieved to hear him referred to as "President Obama".

I wouldn't let mrteenwordpower buy me so much as a burrito until we'd been dating for well over half a decade, and we were (and are) both still mighty swoony. There was (and is) totes walking on the beach and eating ice cream and making out, even AFTER I started driving and voting and handling currency, like some kind…