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As a woman and a feminist, I think that the admittedly very entrenched custom of male strangers offering to buy drinks for female strangers in bars and clubs SUCKS ASS from a feminist point of view.
With you! I kept having to reread the original essay because it just...lends itself to skimming, let's say. Not sure if you've seen this, but over on Gawker, Alex Pareene's response to that passage in particular just NAILS IT. I love both Jia's response and Alex's take, but Alex highlights that particular statement…
Full disclosure, I only slogged through about half the original piece but this statement—"Under p.c. culture, the same idea can be expressed identically by two people but received differently depending on the race and sex of the individuals doing the expressing."— for me really illustrates just how deeply he is…
Complaints about political correctness always, always boil down to 'Boo, I'm now expected to think about things before I say them! I have to consider the feelings and experiences of people who aren't me! I can't just stomp around saying and doing whatever I like any more, except actually I can, because there is literal…
I just started an business certificate course I was (and am!) really excited about, to kick off a career-change that I am also really excited about. About six weeks before the course started, the class website was released and we began the process of forming groups for a team project. Almost right off the bat, this…
That's Brian Blessed, so it could be anything. A joke. A menu. A ransom note. He is the greatest human being the UK ever produced. I'm serious. Read about him. He's a badass.
Maybe if the sport of basketball held significance to white culture because whites did and do live in a society where they are actively oppressed, and they expressed their feelings/thoughts/opinions, which were and are rarely heard in mainstream media, through basketball.
OMG YOU GUYS. Best email ever from my mother.
No one is asking Wahlberg to get on his knees and beg anyone for forgiveness. People are pointing out just how fucked it is that a man who enthusiastically participated in several violent, racist attacks is now loudly whining over the fact that his violent racism is making it very slightly harder for him to become…
Alcohol is one tool used by rapists it's not the cause. A tool that would actually be less effective if we stopped scolding victims for alcohol consumption. Rapists target drunk victims in part because they know people will disbelieve the victim is she was drunk.
Failing to pay attention to pop culture whatsoever for the last 40 years may be unusual, but it's not particularly admirable.
In my teens I was in the generation of Myspace and Xanga and taking "selfies" before they were called that. It's not hard for me to imagine what having all of this stuff would have been like.. because it would have been pretty much like it is now and I'm still young enough where there was some overlap.
I however…
Don't forget lesbians, though. It's good that they included a trans woman (who statistically face more violence), but two women walking out together obviously as a couple are subjected to their own kind of unique harassment, sexism tinged with homophobia, just as the threats aimed at women of size are particular to…
Men aren't entitled to a woman's time or attention. Just because you see her doesn't mean you get to interact with her. It's not rude to ignore rudeness.
Here's the thing. In my experience, I NEVER, literally NEVER see men casually greet each other on the street unless they know each other. These men are throwing out seemingly harmless greetings in hopes you will turn and want to talk. Or they may just want a smile. Sorr,y but I only smile when I feel smiley, not…
Actually, I woulda been tickled to see George Clooney take her father's name!
"Isn't it interesting how she alternates her right paw and her left paw? It's like I've always said.... Life.... Uh.... Finds a way."
"The fault here is any parent who doesn't feel this is essential training for boys, too. "