She's smart. Feminism builds barriers between people and music brings people together.

I mean, if you want to talk about how it's stupid to let people know that you are dispassionate about a cause we are all supposed to support, then I agree. But I think it's inevitable. There are, quite simply, too many worthy causes in the world for everyone to care intensely about all of them.

Anybody that is interested in anything must have at least 8 published papers on it. What a tool.

You know, I just read this article in Fadar and my first thought was, "Oh boy, Jezebel is going to have something to say about this." Which is a shame because she said a lot of really interesting stuff in that piece that we could have used this space to discuss, but instead are wasting on the one click bait worthy…

So every woman who exists MUST be interested in feminism? She didn't say something stupid about it. She simply said she wasn't interested. Feminists honor a woman's right to make her own choices, no? So shouldn't LDR be allowed to choose not to be interested in feminism? And dumbing down her SpaceX interest by saying…

Politics 101: When your target demographic thinks you have nothing to offer them, your message isn't working. Feminists need to realize that these indifferent young women are not the problem. And neither is the media. And neither is the patriarchy. You're the problem. If feminism is no longer a word or a concept…

You make it seem as though women are barred or only a small amount are allowed in, or that college majors have quotas for what genders can take what course. Is it society's fault that most CompSci degrees are going to men? Maybe women should just major in CompSci more often.

this needs more love. there's too much of the "well just arbitrarily hire random women who have poor to no background in the subject" and not enough getting to the bottom of why there's a discrepancy

if gender is a social construct then why do we insist on surgically adopting gender stereotypes to fit said construct?

I hope that these wonderful parents somehow explained the ramifications and got permission from Ryland himself before outting the kid to the entire world on the internet.

I'm troubled, too. What's to celebrate about parents who are so adamant about gender binarism that they can't just let their child be who she is without forcing a choice between "boy" or "girl"? This just upholds gender stereotypes.

Of course gender is self-assigned, it's a construct, and ultimately personal in nature. I am, however, concerned about OTHERS constructing a gender FOR the child, when the child is not in a position to understand for themselves. As I said, clinically speaking a minority of children who show symptoms of GD in…

This is a very encouraging family, and I am all for acceptance of children with GD expressing themselves openly in a supportive environment. However, I am a bit concerned with assigning a gender to any child prior to puberty, as it is possible to probable that it is not long term. Here is the DSM-V: "Rates of…

One thing I find very interesting is, in so many of these stories, the families seem to adhere to a rigid idea of what a girl or a boy should look like or do. My son puts on a dress or my daughter wants a mohawk? It would be no big deal. They announce one day they want to be called by the other gender? I'd do it. …

So is a trans woman appropriating female culture?

No you couldn't.

Some people have a compulsion to become unhealthily thin. Others are compelled to get surgery for breasts far larger then naturally possible. Others are fixated on bodybuilding. This guy fixated on "Korean". I don't think there's anything healthy about it to be sure, but he's not harming anyone and lives in a free…

Mark, your MO seems to be to just blog everything my mom forwards me. I'm not complaining — 'cause this is kinda neat — I'm just surprised that you're on her forward list.

And if some cisgender took offense to a trans who saw themselves as the opposite gender, what then?

I mean, that's nice and all, but I am a "real" woman and I am covered in stretch marks, scars, and cellulite. So we need to go one step further and really look at plus size bodies in real life and what they look like and what women's insecurities might be!