I feel like there may be some overlap between the audience for cat bounce and the audience for this lovely art print I just found on pinterest.

They had to get drunk. They made the mistake of renting Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights for their slumber party.

Eh. It's a chicken-egg situation. Try devoting some of the open-mindedness you show for marriage rights to this.

Yeah, I shouldn't have made such a big generalisation. We're worse in some ways, better in others. Or some of us are worse, some of us are better. We do have a reputation for being more racist than a lot of western countries, though, and it's something I can see personally.

That's true about the unanimous support. But given the disproportionately harsh treatment Gillard gets at any perception of 'backflipping,' I don't blame her for being cautious. I don't like it, but I understand it.

Attempting to balance alienating your support base and implement positive change isn't cowardice, it's strategy. She needed to present herself as non-threatening when she obtained the PM position, or she wouldn't have received any support from the more conservative members of our population. And there are a lot of…

To be fair, the equal marriage rights issue is complicated. She doesn't support those rights herself, likely for political rather than personal reasons, but she did allow her party to do a conscience vote. If Abbott did the same thing, we would have equal marriage rights....but he didn't, so we don't.

People of colour struggle with self-esteem for reasons that whites just don't have to worry about. Negative messages about black skin, black hair, black bodies exist everywhere in our culture. Same goes for other people who don't pass as white. Why is it stupid to counteract that with attempts to instil pride and…

I think it works on the principle that women are the experts on cleaning. If you want to sell cooking products, you rustle up a TV chef for credibility. But if you want to sell cleaning products, you just start your ad with the words"As a busy mum" and you're golden. Failing that, any woman will do. Because who knows…

One of the very few upsides to kinja has been that I seem to see more of your comments. If it wasn't for the handful of awesome commenters like you who stayed to keep hitting all those nails on the head, I would have been out of here long ago. Thanks for getting it right again!

I love you.

I think they're very aware that some people would consider what they say to be racist, but believe themselves to be fighting the good fight against political correctness and tellin' it like it is. Which can't be racism, because real racism is lynchings and slavery. Oh, and affirmative action, because real non-racists…

I would say you're the one doing pointless snarking and clamouring for the last word. I was addressing your point. You didn't bother addressing mine. It's disingenuous of you to claim you can't see what that is, given the other comments here that express it more explicitly (disco2000_T's comments, for example).

D'aww! Right back atcha, I loved what you wrote as well. Your other comments on this stuff, obviously, not just the one where you compliment me =)

I thought there was a chance of that, hence the sex and baby bans. How do you feel about weddings? Because if anything is the result of brainwashing, white dresses and I-Love-You certificates have to be pretty high up there. What about mini-skirts? Or knee-length skirts, for that matter. Ties? Bras? McDonalds? TV?…

We should probably ban pornography while we're at it. I mean, western women (and men) have been brainwashed since birth to think that women are sex objects, and being sexy is the most important thing for a woman to aspire to. And western men have been brainwashed into thinking that fucking is the most important thing…

Such a great response. I don't love the concept of burqas or prostitution either, but I agree wholeheartedly with what you say.

Seconded. This guy sounds awful, I don't care how bad his problems were. I hope that guy gave up teaching, because I don't like to think about how he'd respond if a student actually did come to him for support.

No kidding, it's awful. Really, leaving up comments that say "fucking n———s" is the wave of the future? Massive improvement, jezegawker. I hope it's less that they're ok with people tossing about the n-word, and more because the new system makes it impossible for even the people who work for this site to bother…

Yes. Yes. Yes!