As far as I know, when ballroom was beginning, the events were called “balls” to give them an ironic touch of regalness and pageantry. And the name stuck. They would also often be held in rented ballrooms in order to have a large enough space.

I think people forget that Gigi IS of Middle Eastern descent because she is the lightest of her parents’ children. Yolanda posts a lot of baby pics of the kids, and Gigi has always been the lightest of their children - blonde hair, etc. But from what I’ve seen of their father, he’s not exactly dark. And of course,…

It means there’s a shitty 15 year old with a nasty Tumblr habit on the internet

“You like your culture when it suits you lmaooo.”

Casey was not accused of rape. He was accused of harassment and assault.

The way salaries are kept opaque makes it so difficult to be paid fairly. This is a gender problem, but it’s also a problem that affects all workers. Wages have stayed flat across the board for a reason.

Why the fuck do we continue to invite LITERAL hate groups to participate in “constructive” dialogue? I’m so tired of this “both sides need a voice” false equivalency fuckgarbage.

The American right spent 40 years courting and nurturing hate and divisiveness and now their next gen stars are scaring even them. It’s rather entertaining to watch Republicans now, like alligators eating their own spawn.

Probably because he fell backward over a shrub, it embarrassed the hell out of him, so he had to re-establish is Alpha male position - which meant firing while surrounded by kids.

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This has Pence written all over it. He’s such an awful person, people in Indiana were going to vote his ass out and now here he is, doing his evil on a national stage.

I’m getting married too. I like him. I want to marry him. Is marriage an old institution that was used to enslave women? Sure. Is it that way anymore? It doesn’t have to be. Am I an attention whore who wants everyone to watch me walk down the aisle in a pretty dress? I sure am. Will I let my father hand me…

I get that, but it isn’t as if any property that was left to me by my father will now go to my husband. Laws surrounding marriage have changed, so I don’t think it’s fair to make the statement that she is making.

Do you think it’s possible to be a feminist and not devote every action of your life to feminism?

A couple of days ago, I went to the doctor and got birth control pills. I was talking to the doctor about the cost of a pelvic and she made a comment it’s cover under insurance for now. She made a similar comment about my birth control and how she was making sure to give me a three months supply just in case. The…

There are a lot of good points but I struggle with the idea that partnership/marriage are inherently anti-feminist. This argument came up a lot about the fight for marriage equality; that advocating for it was against progressive values because it reinforces patriarchal and capitalist structures.

Crispin was all over the place in this interview and excessively pious/judgmental. She is often self-contradictory; e.g. she thinks Steinem’s criticism of women who support Bernie can’t be taken seriously because Steinem’s always had boyfriends, yet Crispin condemns the “context of investigating women’s pasts to…

It must be nice to be the only person doing feminism right.

“I’m not a democrat! They aren’t authentically liberal. They devote themselves to aesthetics but don’t tackle the more important issues. So many high-profile democrats don’t accurately reflect what I believe. . . . OH SHIT THEY LOST THE ELECTION? HOW?”