Especially when, for the last decade, the media has portrayed you as the desperate, pathetic victim.

If everyone kept asking me about my ex-husband ten years later, I'd lose my shit.

I see your point. Ladies tend to take such a personal view of their own lives. They need men to provide an uncaring, objective point of view.

Isn't there an old church doctrine that childbirth pain is punishment for original sin? So Eve eats the apple, becomes aware of sex, and all women forever suffer because of it. It's not that different.

"isn't childbirth just physical punishment for a woman experiencing sexual pleasure?"

That's fine. But my point is that it's easier to pick on friends than enemies because you're enemies give no fucks while your friends will grovel a bit. It's the sad nature of the Internet that so many people want to shame and blame people for the slightest of comments and then act like those comments define that…

Self-righteous grandstanding is the favorite sport of the Internet.

It's easier to pick on occasionally problematic allies than downright racists because the racists don't care but the problematic ally will give some catharsis via apology and/or self-flagellation.

That's not how online social justice works; you're meant to fervently attack people that are generally on the correct side as if they are the reincarnation of Hitler himself.

She shouldn't apologise if she's not really sorry. And if she thinks the accusations were overblown, she has a right to say so. Accusing someone of something on the internet, and getting attention, doesn't automatically make the accusation valid. As for the song, she interpreted its meaning to be part of a larger…

I think sometimes it's the SJWs' schadenfreude, and the collective back-patting that comes from the "well, I knew what 'strange fruit' referred to, so why didn't you?" I mean, sometimes a person is an actual racist, sometimes a person is tone-deaf, and sometimes a person is just uneducated. I appreciate that these…

Yeah. I think there are reasons to criticize Annie Lennox for the "Strange Fruit" interview, but let's keep it in perspective. Same with piling on Iggy Azalea for not mentioning Ferguson in the Grammys. I don't get the concept of criticizing celebrities for what they didn't say: "Why didn't Annie Lennox mention Ida B.…

So now Annie Lennox is the face of white privilege and racism? Annie Lennox? Don't tell Desmond Tutu:

Here's an idea: Let's just pick on people who are actually racist a-holes. She does loads of charity work and is/was on Nelson Mandela's HIV charity and was at his funeral.She knows the history of the song and didn't need to give you a lesson. Tavis was asking what the song meant to HER—not what the song meant…

Everybody was steam-pressed at her over that.

She should've acknowledged the song's meaning, but I'm not really about these Internet pile-ons lately. I just never see them bring about much dialogue or real change. Celebrities continue making these missteps, the usual comment drama ensues, the overwrought think pieces roll out like clockwork, the apologies are…

It was overblown. And now people are still pissed because she's still not reacting the way they would have liked, by self-flagellating and promising to check her white privilege for life and buying a Solidarity is for White Women t-shirt and refusing to sing anything that was ever sung by a black singer because…

My co-worker's girlfriend just got pregnant (her 3rd child, his 1st) and my sanity will only be regained once that baby is born. He is being the most controlling, condescending, mansplaining DICK WAD I have ever encountered.

I'd like someone to point out that forced pregnancy is slavery, but that might piss off some people.

I see a lot of pro choice people rushing to appease forced birthers. I'm tired of seeing mealy mouthed statements like "I'm not pro abortion. I'm pro choice" I'm pro choice and pro abortion and I'm not afraid to say it.