“But that’s not feminism, that’s being a ho”

Maybe it’s due to been raised in Europe, but why is nudity right away considered sexual in the US?

I think that the fact she applied the term “ho” to someone who has never been part of the sex industry means she believes that any woman who poses nude or semi-nude is a prostitute. I don’t think that applying that term even to women who have been part of it but not as prostitutes, like Amber Rose or Blac Chyna, is…

Calling someone a ho is what makes Osbourne a bad feminist, actually.

Team No One.

Honestly, they just seem so fascinated by penises that they seem to assume women are too. Until recently, most of the books I’ve read were written by men, and the few female authors tended to use tasteful cutaways. I read Uprooted by Naomi Novik, who includes a sex scene which I found strange to read. Eventually I…

I think he has a style and way of telling a story that people either really like or have a hard time staying with.

King writes a damn good 84% of a novel. The rest is always iffy. And keep your fingers crossed for an ending that doesn’t make you wanna casually knock the book into the “donate” pile.

He absolutely has not read the book

He’s written enough fucked up sex scenes (and horrible characterizations of girls & women) that I’m pretty confident booze & drugs had little to do with it.

King does write the worst sex scenes, especially when he tries to write them from a female perspective. To be fair, most male authors are terrible at this.

God, me too. But I don’t have the means.

Agree. I nannied for a while and couldn’t believe things parents said to their kids about not acting like a boy/girl, what toys were for them, the “right” games to play etc. It’s so ingrained the parents probably don’t even realize they’re doing it. One 5 year old girl I babysat was really upset because she and a boy…

Yeah, it’s nothing to do with the signs saying Girls’ Clothes/Girls’ Toys above acres of wall-to-wall pink stuff.

Labelling clothes as “clothes” and not as “clothes for boys” and “clothes for girls” isn’t erasing anyone’s gender.

Sadly, lots of children DO think they can only dress/play within their gender stereotype, especially boys, who often ARE told by parents/adults. Haven’t you ever heard a parent saying “that’s for girls”, “don’t be silly that’s a girly thing”, “girls are just different”, “boys will be boys”, “wouldn’t you rather a cool…

Um, what?

That’s true. People keep forgetting that until the 19th century, pink and red were masculine colors and blue was a feminine one. Men were the ones who wore more richly decorated and frilly clothes.

If wearing gender neutral clothing and presenting all gendered options to a child is erasing gender then I think you have bigger issues.

Good for you. But that might also be influences of the world; not just you. Children absorb “what is appropriate” and ideas about what “girls should wear” not just from parents but friends, etc. too, and I think that’s why the other commenter was saying that they don’t “live under the rock.”