Seriously. I feel for Elizabeth Smart but the anti-porn lobby is using our pre-existing sympathy for an abducted rape victim and it’s a gross tactic. Porn = Sex. Sex requires consent. Neither porn nor sex is good or bad in and of itself. Context is always key—for the makers and consumers of pornography.

Yeah, I’m like 90% sure our country is headed towards revolution just because of this. We have an overeducated workforce, a system that allows for the abuse of workers, and an economic divide that has most of us working like serfs for individuals who are less educated and less industrious. It’s not a good combination.

What these types of “how to get by as unpaid intern” articles never cover is the expense that comes with existing beyond basic necessities, which is something that you HAVE to do as an adult. Like great, you have six roommates, your social events are potlucks, and you upsource goodwill clothing, so you are housed, fed…

Yeah, I remember when summer jobs were a chance to earn money getting experience in your field. And everyone assumed that your first five years in paid employment were part of your apprenticeship, bringing you up to speed. Four years of paying for university (or more, with grad school) were considered sufficient…

What you described is happening much more recently. When I first entered the corporate workforce, there was no experience necessary for an entry level position. This was less than 10 years ago. Just looked on my company’s job posting site and for an entry level position you need at least 1 year of experience.…

A lot of people don’t seem to realize that unpaid internships (especially in high cost of living major cities) further exacerbate our already deep class divisions. I never could have taken an unpaid internship, my mom needed the half of my paycheck that I gave her to keep the bills paid...the only people who can…

I’ll stop wearing a shirt and/or flowy cover-up to the beach when I feel less judgement from society for my weight/looks. I won’t tell these women to wear less either, and making a “law” to do so is bullcrap.

I have a[sic] problem with the use of punching down when many of these women have repugnant right wing views. [Emphasis mine]

Probably it’s ‘brotherhood’ in terms of “We won’t tolerate difference”, which after the four years I spent in Paris, seems pretty much what I gleaned from society there.

In other words, “no religion in public” really means “no Muslims in public” in France.

It’s code. The proponents of this ban are frightened of Muslims but they are aware enough to realize that explicitly stating that could be politically damaging. So they’re using different language with significant racial connotations; in this case, that brown people are dirty.

Strange how the French never complain about the omnipresence of religion when it’s Catholicism. Walk through the old part of any French city and you’ll see nuns in full habits and priests in their religious garb, churches ringing bells the entire neighborhood can hear, crucifixes on numerous buildings including…

Go back to troll school.

A burkini? I really don’t know. It seems to me that this whole “burkini” thing is an arbitrary excuse to bother and police Muslim women in public. It also seems to me that allowing women who wear the burka for whatever reason to use the beach like everyone else and dress to their own comfort level would be most in…

I don’t like religions that tell women they have to dress a certain way to be appropriately modest, or that otherwise treats parts of the female body as especially evil. I also think religious freedom is important, and women are free to choose whether they want to believe in a religion that calls on them to dress…

Some of us are advanced enough to tolerate a little bit of cognitive dissonance. Sometimes you have to defend the rights of people who wouldn’t defend your rights if the roles were reversed. It’s not always a comfortable place to be, but it’s the right place to be.

It’s not surprising to see the support for this coming from the far right. The socialists support it because their current government is historically unpopular (for terrorism and economic/labor reasons) and they have no viable election strategy for next year’s elections. The right is drawing voters middle voters…

My thoughts as well. It’s like, let me get this straight; in order to prevent a patriarchal system from dictating what women can wear, you’re dictating and enforcing what women can wear, through the patriarchal system of law? There’s absolutely nothing feminist about this. It’s harassment and persecution from the…

Although the belief that females should be modest completely offends me to my core, this is quite obviously fucked up. A government banning CLOTHES?! What kind of fucked up dystopia is this?

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, JK.