Eh I wouldn’t really call UVA “liberal,” even if it is further north. It’s still super entrenched in fratty, “all-American,” old money bullshit. I went to UNC and it was much more liberal and diverse, at least in look/hair color. The cult of blonde-ness is pretty bizarre though. Hot is really just a uniform. Sometimes…

TELL ‘EM

Yeah but.... the people who react that way are stupid. Or at least, very brainwashed by marketing messages of feminine beauty and unwilling to dig any deeper. But I understand if you don’t want to take it on yourself to fight the stupidity. It’s no fun feeling like other people think you’re gross! I haven’t shaved for…

It’s unfortunate he was being demanding and rude. He was right, though. You can use ceiling fans with heaters to make a space warmer.

Just fyi, I am with you. It’s weird to me how much glee people get out of deciding someone is ignorant, and then will defend that assumption to the death. I know a lot about cheese, I make it quite often, and I certainly don’t think her question was stupid enough to scare away a server or make someone tip extra for…

Not a clever or meaningful comparison at all. Rihanna is a famous artist and her song is recognizable to most people, unlike the above artist’s photograph.

That’s a dumb comparison. Rihanna is a world-famous artist. Using a song that almost everyone will recognize as hers on a website is entirely different from taking the work of an unknown artist and repackaging it without credit, and you know it.

Well.... there are also tons of black people in the South. Whom I’ve found to be very welcoming, friendly and hospitable. I’m sorry you’ve had those experiences though. Where I live in North Carolina, I have certainly met a fair number of racists, but I’ve also witnessed countless heartwarming scenes of community…

Thanks for putting how I feel into words! I am born and raised in North Carolina, and love so much about my state (its recent politics notwithstanding...) I don’t see how it is threatening to so-called “Southern Pride” to decry racism and a symbol of racism, slavery, and disgusting, violent oppression. Be proud of our…

YES. That’s definitely a part of it. I think it’s part of the ingrained objectification we do of women. A beautiful women who gets ahead on “sex appeal” can only ever be that, and woe unto her if she ever tries to appear intelligent or charming or like an actual person. You may not have cared/remember when Kim K was…

Ewww, where is that?

That is such a misrepresentation of what is happening here. And I say that as someone who likes Hillary Clinton

I have been nodding my head to your comments all up and down this thread! I am so frustrated by liberals straight-up ordering people to vote for Hillary or else be held personally responsible for the end of the world/ a republican president. Their insistence that Bernie Sanders can’t be a serious candidate is a…

I’ll admit, I definitely had a hard time driving home after watching it; I wanted to spit some nitro in my air intake and crash into some assholes! But I managed to keep my righteous feminist badass urges in check, ha. If anything, I think I will say a litany to Furiosa as my patron saint of feminist rage whenever…

Well said.

YES. I was a student at The University of North Carolina right when all of the college sexual assault, title ix stuff started to go down (exciting times!). I was also sexually assaulted during my time there, twice. I wish universities and policy makers would sit down to do the real work of discouraging rape culture…

Yes, I was also raped in college, and as someone who took a lot of women’s studies classes, heard a lot of discussion about “survivor” versus “victim.” People would give me weird, pitying looks for wanting to use the term victim (for myself anyway), but you know what? I was a victim. No one was going to kill me, they…

We are talking about a tiny subset of young people who are voicing their discontent in an unhelpful way. If your response to this incident is to not “take feminism seriously,” you are not much of a thinker at all. Feminism is still an essential movement for the millions of women (and men) who are exploited,…

This article and especially the comments beneath it are why I have kept coming back to Jezebel, for over 6 years, despite huge staff and style changes. It makes me so relieved to see all of these smart, compassionate, thinking women (and men) talking about feminism and equality with the nuance and pragmatism it…

I- Is someone chopping onions in here?