I mean your posting to jez, which begs the question is the fucking even good?

How about the ladies just stop fucking Republicans?

I can’t even dirt bag. I’m still too sad today.

I cannot stand to watch fictional chefs pretending to cook (or people who cook well at home call themselves chefs) but it isn’t appropriation. It is annoying and not enjoyable for me to watch as entertainment, but it isn’t really offensive. Everything that I don’t like is not an affront on me.

This the equivalent of a kid banging on a keyboard and saying “Look at me, I’m playing the piano!”

She didn’t take a good picture, thats it.

As a balletomane (who never had a chance b/c of flat feet and no turnout), I don’t really care about this “controversy”. However, I will say that I can think of some ballerinas that would totally fit in w/ fashion mags and have physiques different from models’ (diversity is always good)....

Balletomanes and actual ballerinas were quite steamed about what they viewed as “appropriation;”

I mean... “literally SO offensive.” lol no. No, it wasn’t. She was doing what many, many models before her have done! But she has a target on her back because she’s a Jennerashian. I think it’s a bigger insult to modeling. Like, wtf are you even modeling?

First off, glad that this is an appropriation controversy that isn’t racial in nature. That said, the word is in serious danger of becoming a joke. Models play dress-up all the time. They shouldn’t go so far as to pretend to be African natives but posing as a ballerina is not going to damage the art form.

I feel like collegiate Greek life would be much safer for everyone if it just involved eating souvlaki and moussaka and going to really long Orthodox church services.

What her kids heard was, “I’m giving you permission to scream in public.“ and some kids really love to scream.

My daughter used to want to hug ANYONE AND EVERYONE, especially men. So, one day, one of her uncles was over (this was relayed to me by her stepmother), and brought a friend, and my kid wanted absolutely nothing to do with this dude, and on top of that, gathered the smaller children (she was like.. five? six?) and…

I believe in *always* asking with non-immediate family, but within immediate family I think there’s room for context, age, past experience, etc. to create room for some automatic signs of affection. I don’t want my partner to ask every time he puts an arm around me, I do want him to respect it immediately if I say no…

I usually just say something like, "I know. Koalas, am I right?" And then when they look at me like I'm insane I continue with, "Oh, I thought I was allowed to insert my own noun - like Mad Libs. Were you talking about something else?"

I had a discussion with a man online who repeatedly used the word female, so I asked him if he knew it was offensive to many. He said he did and that's why he used it. I further pressed him and he said he did not view women as human beings and thus deserved the "female" terminology used to describe animals. It was a…

"The thing about females is... they deserve to be able to walk home alone at night without fear."

The only people who call women "females" are misogynists, so you're totally right.

"As Nigatu and Clayton note—we almost never refer to men as "males" in this way."

Whenever I hear somebody use female as a noun while referring to humans, it is an immediate sign to me that whatever is coming out of their mouth will be deeply rooted in misogyny. I have yet to be wrong.