There's definitely a classist element in the rhetoric, no mistake. But race is part of it too. I've heard pro-lifers say pro-choice women must be racist, because letting WoC choose to get abortions is "ethnic cleansing."

The less extreme but still fucked up version that I hear more often is that pro-choicers ignore…

Oof! I feel for you! My best friend was a ballet dancer for most of her youth—started in the kiddie classes, went all the way through high school and still had an interest in college. She hated feet. When she started moving away from dance and towards massage therapy, getting comfortable with touching feet was one of…

#1. Brrrrr. A strong, chilling gesture.

#2. I notice how many women and PoC there are there, which is a nice change from the expected usual. In addition to the sexism, there's often a lot of Whitesplaining on the pro-life side of things, (i.e., "Many of the women who choose abortion are poor minorities and we need to…

I love, love, love, love, love that project. I was shown these images when I was in school as a reminder of how even among what we think of as one body type ("athletic") there is so much diversity.

I know, right? One would think that would be a no brainer but so many get it wrong.

Honestly I've been feeling threatened as fuck by some of this legislation. Who do I get to shoot?

Gay Mormon porn makes total sense to me. Nothing makes something seem more pornographic than repressing it with extreme prejudice. It's like the nun fetish.

Exactly. Quotes like this get bandied about as if there's something inherent about clothes that makes them look better on tiny frames, rather than it being a function of an imposed idea of beauty that makes people design clothes around tiny frames.

If you can only design clothes for one body type, you lack range as an…

I kind of love the middle one. It's like a live chicken is curled up napping on your head.

When the most naturally thin, tall women are starving themselves because by the standards of the fashion industry they aren't skinny enough, then we can assume that the fashion industry is not designing their clothing for real human bodies.

I will never fully understand the "models are skinny because clothes fall best on a body that is most like a clothes hanger, with as little muscle, fat, etc as possible." Aren't they sort of misunderstanding the purpose of clothes? Of course your clothes look better on a skinny body when you design them around a dress…

These came up on Google Images for "Devil Slut Hat"

Because in addition to coming out of racist, classist thinking, there's sexism at work here.

I strongly suspect that even if there was no official race-based methodology, there was the technique of just plain old fashioned being racist and targeting WoC because of it. The quote from Heinrich above about welfare, when I hear quotes like that they often have undertones of race, not just class.

But...how does having such a high, automatic kill rate for completely adoptable pets treat them less like disposable property?

This may just be my experience, and I know it's not necessarily true for everyone, but every pet owner I know considers themselves their pet's guardian. I've never met anyone who doesn't…

Obviously it is more ethical to kill them and incinerate their bodies so that no creature benefits from them.

Because PETA is to animal rights what the Westboro Baptist Church is to the teachings of Jesus.

Happy 4th

Why?

Seeing your comments in various places on this issue makes it clear you think gender should only be defined by physical sex, and are unwilling to accept any alternative possibility.