Egghh. So. Much. White people’s. Arrhythmic. Dancing.
Thank goodness this Dirt Bag came with an Adam Rippon chaser.

It’s a cornucopia of try-hard “hippie” “bohemian” scarf/“tribal”necklace-wearers who probably all have more money than I’ll ever make in my life who love to play the pauper artist.

That was either a douche or a troll. At worst it was annoying. Meanwhile TERFS actively harm trans women and viciously attack any cis woman who tries to talk sense into them. It can’t compare.

I don’t think anyone is calling for an end to women’s only spaces, just those that exclude on a basis of genitalia. And, I don’t see how women’s only spaces are any less empowering by including transwomen.  I am part of a feminist martial arts school that was founded in the early 80s in a context of women learning how…

Hey, fellow woman’s college graduate and trans man here. TERFs aren’t pro trans-women anything so you’re safe in that regard. The thing you probably need to keep in mind is that while gender queer and trans politics may be different from traditional women’s, they are no less anti-patriarchy. Women’s institutions…

Last year, here on Jez, there was a post about endometriosis and the group was sharing experiences until someone came on and said “not all women get periods and this is exclusionary.”

Neither I nor any other trans woman I know claims that my experiences are identical to those of cis women, or that I arrived where I am now by the same path that cis women did. It’s not bigotry to acknowledge the existence of those differences. What’s bigotry is to focus only on the differences to the exclusion of the…

This really is best addressed by a trans person, but for what it’s worth, I don’t think any of that makes you a TERF. For one thing, there are many (possibly most, but I have no stats) transwomen who prefer to go by ‘she’ rather than any gender-neutral pronoun.

Everyone, I found the incel! He’s over here, I found him!

Regarding the “hallelujahs”, as a white guy who has attended black churches, my personal problem is that I’m not quick enough. It gets to be Tuesday and I’m like, “You know, that was a good point...”

Yeah, also, not to bum Mindy out, but I know my mother also thought exactly this: “I also want her to be confident. I was not that way as a child, and I want my daughter to be really confident all the time.” And I was still not confident as a child.

Who is everyone??? Have I broken some Jez taboo by suggesting that Kristen Stewart isn’t in the fullest of health?! Jesus H Christ this is hilarious! I don’t often fall foul of the double standards here, but his has been illuminating, thanks. Fwiw I really, really like Kristen Stewart, in so far as a total nobody can…

It takes a real professional to file a dispatch after being guillotined, though.

A counterpoint and tangent to the culture change would be that fundraising by the parents for the low-income schools could increase. Wealthy communities have the time, money, and motivation to fundraise to help fill gaps in the school’s budget.

Because the infantilization when he lost his mind in Brasil was the same, while Gabby Douglass got dragged for “failing to put her hand on her heart” for the national anthem while she won her gold medal, while at the same time the Orange Occupant can’t even remember the words.

Anthony’s just jelly because his most creative use of a spoon over an open flame was...well, you know.

unless you’re exclusively making bluegrass music

You have so much class. My husband and I are struggling with infertility too, and I could not have written anything close to the last paragraph in your response. Like you, I’m fine with adopting. My husband very much wants to have biological children, and it’s nothing we can negotiate on. Infertility is the hardest…

If there was funding available to help with adoption costs it’d be a more viable option for me. But my insurance covers fertility treatment, and I am having to save up to be able to afford future daycare, so if I spent my savings on adoption I wouldn’t be able to afford to actually ensure the child was cared for.

I know you’re just asking an honest question, but please do not ever say “why don’t you just adopt?” to someone struggling with infertility.