Yes, practically everything that we buy is made in deplorable conditions. I hate to sound like a complainer but as someone with a degree [and the college kids currently attending] you're basically a gerbil on a spinning wheel. You needed to take out loans to get a degree in order to get a job and you spend a large…

I was thinking the exact same thing. I look at my loan payments and take my self right to XXI. It's not in my budget. I hold a B.S in Biology. #ItsRoughOutHere

Wow makes being popular sound like a bummer.... ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

oh gawd, does being a feminist mean making everything sound horrible? Spanx are not torture devices. you can get them the next size up and get smoothing. #relax

Because black women are marginalized. Its bigger than her skin. Black women are a double minority. Her identity is not that of her own. You see this within our community. For example the Natural VS Relaxed debate. Women who go natural are sometimes told that their hair looks nappy or unkept. Relaxed women are…

well okay, there are classes. and i certainly believe gender is a class. woman are treated as second class citizens or even objects at times. what i means to say is that believing in that system is absurd, no one in my book is any better or lesser than the next bloke. but i feel like feminism, although rooted in anger…

I could be wrong but I view those women as extremists. But that could be because i personally think the idea that there are classes of people is absurd.

you're right the context is important, and the intention behind this spread reads of appropriation.

See that's where the lines get tricky. Can someone from another background have an appreciation for aspects of a culture or is every culture supposed to only use elements of their own culture? I think there is a a fine line. For example, I'm not offended by Amy Winehouse making great Afro inspired music BUT i am…

well i think that depends on how people define what feminism is or what it stands for. i identify as a feminist but do not agree that men will never stop being rapists [there are a lot of men who dont rape]. i do think that gender [in social concepts] needs more wiggle room [on both sides] but eradicating or…

you know based on what the media sells... the average woman simply doesnt exist. try finding a designer dress in size 12-14

600?! i stopped after the gameboy color! i had not idea there were that many now!

You know i'm probably biased but I attended a women's college and did the leadership orgs at that college. and my experience has been nothing but positive among the women who identified themselves as feminists. There was no animosity towards men as a whole. However with any belief system there will always be…

I hear what you're saying. It isn't an accurate representation of Navajo culture. completely agree with that. neither are the "tribal" pieces that are also on trend. My main issue is the way they blanket the Caucasian model out there like she came up with that all on her own. "Look at these pieces I found!" as…

Those garments may not be authentically Native American but there certainly are not inspired by the Western culture the model used is associated with.

I guess this is the newer generalizations version of pokemon... Gotta Catch em All!

I think there is misinterpretation of what it is. People are often surprised when I tell them I'm a feminist.

Would it have killed them to have a Native American model wearing these garments, sharing her culture as opposed to some presumably Caucasian woman appropriating it? *le sigh*

Can someone please explain to me how this whole myth about being a feminist equated to hating men got started? Is it too much to ask for equal pay and adequate enforcement of legislation against rape?

No. And if you're lucky, you'll live long enough to die...