I have never been skinny. I have always had hips and thighs, and been curvy and when I was younger I looked at all the other girls and wondered why I couldn't look like them. Then I read this poem in 9th grade and it changed the way I looked at myself. Dr. Angelou you were a phenomenal woman thank you

Spot on.

That was beautifully done, Rooo sez. Just wanted to tell you. I heart your posts!

You're entitled to disagree, of course. I'm entitled to believe you missed the whole point. Nothing you've said so far as demonstrated otherwise. You premise of "oh well, country's fucked, nothing we can do about it" is particularly concerning.

And just as I might be a frequent contributor to sites that deal with…

"You can't arrest people for being crazy. You can't arrest people without evidence."

Since the whole point went entirely over your dull head, someone's already put it quite nicely on a learning curve for you, but you can still keep being an insufferable troll if you'd like.

"I just don't think that sexism explains the police inaction in this particular case."

Wow, you're dull.

"I'm saying that the police involvement in this case wasn't necessarily hampered by sexism per se. Two separate arguments."

I think sexism absolutely played a roll in Rodgers' actions.

I guess you have the privilege of not being convinced. Tellingly, very few feminists who happen to be women have the luxury of ignoring that culture. Certainly the law limits the extent to which he could have been stopped, and certainly not everyone who is undiagnosable is well. But there are many problems with the…

Actually, I will blame the cops. Because they take EVERY precaution when it's a minority. So much so that if a black man is holding a candy bar, he has to be shot to death before he is even allowed to speak. I will not make excuses for these cops - because the one time we needed them to be overly cautious, they failed…

The problem with the discussion surrounding these tragedies is that people always try to find a single source on which to pin the blame. The truth is that these situations ar complex and there are many factors that contribute to these shootings. As far as what the leading cause of Elliot Rodger's shoot spree was, I'm …

Breasts are not genitals. But feel free to walk around with your shirt off, i guarantee you would be fine and could upload to instagram to your heart's content

Nope, but you can walk around anywhere with your nipples hanging out. And so can I.

Annnnddd....false equivalency raises its ugly head!

I remember being a little girl when my older sisters were such bullies to me and then they would turn around in the next minute, see a neighbor or answer the door, and pretend to be so sweet as they said, "Good morning, Miss So and So." So, I taped this quote on my bedroom door and I refused to let them get away with…

Here's the statement on her passing from the President:

That's like the official poem of black girls. Right next to "Ain't I a Woman" for how often I've heard it recited. Her work touched everybody, but it really was something else for us black girls.

This. This is the one that really got me thinking.