Huh. That is odd. I've no idea why I got removed as opposed to any of the scores of trolls around here. Odd.

I in no way said we shouldn't allow polygamy or polyamory. I said my main issue/one reservation was due to the fact that it's one less thing to prosecute these notoriously difficult-to-nail-down cults on. As a certified queer, I could give less of a shit how many partners people legally have.

I never saw Callie respond to me, at all, on anything. I still cannot see it. Which comment on which slut-shaming piece? The one where I kvetched about them running a piece about how "slut shaming's" not a valid term immediately after a slew of articles regarding slut-shaming?

Anything but the gays, eh, Utah?

Well, this seems a little out of left field, seeing as up to this week someone or another would be writing an article mentioning slut-shaming as part of a litany of offenses against a human or about one particular aspect of slut-shaming by now. Is this just Jezebel's roundabout way of saying they're sticking behind…

Well, this seems a little out of left field, seeing as up to this week someone or another would be writing an article mentioning slut-shaming as part of a litany of offenses against a human or about one particular aspect of slut-shaming by now. Is this just Jezebel's roundabout way of saying they're sticking behind…

Do they know what happened when we just dropped kids from our wombs in fields and so on without medical intervention or proper medical intervention?

Thank you for adding to my litany of medical nightmares that Could Totally Happen. She fertilized an egg on her own? What?

I love American Girl Dolls to pieces. I never had one, but one of my best friends did, and she was so excited to get a doll that finally looked like her (she's biracial). I'm severely hard-of-hearing/deaf (depending on who you go to in order to ask) and I kept staring at the catalog when the hearing aid came out.…

Real ballerinas definitely do (I'm a plebian, I got out before I got super serious. Grew boobs, eventually, you know.) I have a friend whose toes are actually beginning to be blunter because of pointe shoe use.

Yep. Often white feminist lite tries to mask itself as intersectional... but it isn't. There's an obvious difference between using other people's struggles as an accessory to your own and trying to bring attention to those struggles & amplifying the voices of people going through those struggles. This woman's entire…

I'm in college now. Our players (admittedly, our team sucks) are all about the ballet and yoga.

Are you referring to the "coal" bit? Yeah, I figured it was a mud mask on the child's face, but people who defend Zwart Piet tend to say "oh, his face is black because of coal!"

Thank you for reading! Your daughter sounds awesome. I wish I'd had the discipline to keep up with it - and it's difficult. Any eight year old who has that much dedication is going to be just fine, whether boy or girl. (Also, anyone who thinks ballet is all about "grace" and "pretty princessification"... doesn't know…

"ZWARTE PIET ISN'T BLACKFACE BLAH BLAH COAL BLAHBLAH WHY DO YOU HATE FUN"

To be fair, my siblings and I did the same thing and at least one of us also caught The Gay.

"Good lessons of sports" can also result in a mob mentality conducive to gang rape. "Useless qualities like grace" are exclusively associated with the feminine, which is why we see them as useless. It also teaches you physical limits and ups your pain tolerance by about a thousand, which is why football players often…

I was exclusively responding to the article, in which the author seems to point at toys as a major/the major form of making girls obsessed with their bodies. I do not care to look at the rest of the website for fear similar articles will abound and I will have a rage-induced aneurysm.

Good point. I like Goldieblox because I can buy it for my five year old ladyrelatives. I'll keep Snap Circuits in mind for when they grow up a bit.

Exactly this.