I went through a true crime phase about them and even I ( who really likes a good true crime story) was like, yep, nope, gonna take a break.

Same here. I had a bunch of books about criminals and serial killers because I wanted to do some research. Karla Homolka freaked me out so badly. She is the epitome of evil.

I saw it too so you do not need to prove anything to me. No matter the political party a lot of white people will uphold white supremacy at all cost. Not all, but a lot. A lot of Jez white feminism, and a lot of feminism in general just want to be equal to white men and get people of color to join their causes while a…

I very stupidly allowed myself to believe that this time it was going to be different. That maybe the fact that there was a video of a man outnumbered 4 to 1 with a police helicopter circling overhead getting gunned down in cold blood would be enough for a weak sauce manslaughter conviction. Or maybe the same…

I stupidly scrolled down and read some greys (I mean I’m a grey but whatever) and some of them are horrific. I was hoping some of the old Gawker bro-trolls would move on to fusion or anywhere else but looks like some are here to stay. That’s fucking perfect.

Don’t confuse Snowden and Manning.

Absolutely. I find “girlboss” especially grating because so many people (men and women, but mostly men) refer to women as “girls,” no matter their age and I hate it. The other day I overheard someone talking about Theresa May, calling her a “girl” and I wanted to scream. She’s the fucking prime minister of Britain.…

Yup! At first blush, I find it cloying.

Every time I read or hear “girlboss” or “SHE-E-O” I just want to barf. Guys, these terms aren’t helping us move forward.

It’s funny that you think participation in capitalism, even more insidious by the fact that they are trying to market feminism, is somehow anything but counter productive.

It’s bugging me a lot because I also feel like there’s some sort of weird TERF-y undercurrent with some of this stuff? Maybe I’m reading into it wrong or something, I dunno, I just look at a lot of wildfang stuff and get a weird vibe.

My entire takeaway is that no amount of self stylized bad assery does anything tangible to combat the assault on our civil liberties. Maybe this is the first step of rallying but damn, everyone stepped in a pile of meaningless dog shit here.

I think a large part of this is young people (<30) working at these orgs who are just used to grabbing images off of the internet and using them in various ways that just genuinely didn’t think through the fact that when you’re engaging in this kind of commercial behavior, you need to actually follow the rules.

Until these bad ass lady gangs start actually doing something tangible to fight fascism can they remove the bad ass and just go with ‘lady gang’.

I don’t understand how ‘badass lady’ translates into one specific type of clothing. Clothes don’t make a badass, badasses make themselves and wear whatever the fuck they want.

a fashion brand for “badass women,”

My mind immediately went to David Foster Wallace and, given he’s dead, I thought there was some sort of zombie twist to this story.

I commented in the Root the execs wanted Ieshia Evans Black Girl Magic without all the black.

I’m all for them having access to the pill.