Yes. This. There is such a strong correlation between the economic development of a country and access to family planning. Giving someone food won't lift them out of poverty because it's short term. Preventing young women from being saddled with tons of kids or becoming a teen mother and bride so they can be…

You didn't need to put Florida in the title. It's already implied.

During my college graduation, as the Valedictorian (a woman) was giving her speech, the guy sitting behind me said "yeah, but I wouldn't fuck her though" to the guy sitting next to him.

Being pretty and thin IS the accomplishment!

You think those are the same?

"...I think my penis."

The current pope is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The fact that he seems like a decent person makes him way more dangerous than the last pope. He's just there to give the Catholic church some good press without actually making any changes to its social policies.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only human being who thinks that firearms, power tools, electricity and railway tracks needed to be treated with the kind of respect that juuuuuust edges on fear. o___o

When I read those today, it was the only thing that contained my outrage. It was a great comeback.

amputate the expressive possibilities of the human face, which are so connected to empathic abilities

Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Women could be performing brain surgery, piloting a spaceship or accepting their Nobel Prize and it really is still acceptable to qualify their accomplishments with their fucking swimsuit scores. This woman's body type is literally the least interesting thing about her, but oh how important it…

I know! It's like...somehow an unfuckable woman did something important. Weird.

And she's gone now, so there's a slot for ONE of us to fill in the "not hot but valuable to the universe" category.

Grizzled, and certainly growing that Kelly beard to cover up his plain features, Leo Tolstoy nevertheless knew how to hold a pen and use it.

In response to pic? So you've got Jia's taste in men as well, eh?

That obituary was a disgrace, and got the thrashing it deserved on Twitter and in other media (The Australian is a Murdoch paper) yesterday. My fav response with this article imagining the obits of male writers if they were subjected to the same treatment as women.

Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was, nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.

Just imagine what she could have accomplished if she were pretty and thin. Just imagine. Just imagine …

I'd argue that America is the Florida of planet Earth.

Australia is like the Florida of planet Earth.