It’s absolutely misogyny. Mostly unconscious, of course, and including a lot of internalized sexism among women as well. Don’t let the denials make you crazy, your instincts are right. (There are some good things about living a long time and seeing your insights go from “crazy” to “hmm maybe” to “mainstream” more than…

Exactly. It hasn’t been THAT fast. I’m 60. Guys my age may have been given unrealistic expectations as little boys, but they have had PLENTY of time to adjust those. If they haven’t, they aren’t as bright as they think they are, or they aren’t paying attention, or they’re assholes.

AAAAnnd we find out how nice this nice guy is. Gee. Sorry your life sucks so much, that you have to notice that somebody is scared of you. That must be a living hell.

Gee, sorry you have to live in a world where people sometimes think you might be a bad person. That’s got to be inconvenient. Too bad women have to live in a world where people KILL them.

Actually, “depression is a chemical problem in the brain” is not true. http://link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This worries me, not because of the screening, but because the usual treatment is drugs, not support or therapy. There are serious questions about the safety of drugs that alter neurological chemistry being taken during pregnancy. Just think about it. The fetus’s nervous system is forming, out of nothing, for the…

Trust me, pretty much everyone anywhere can assume that their tax dollars are being used to pay for spying on completely legal, benign groups who happen to be on the liberal/socialist/anti-racist side.

Okay, good I guess, but seriously, we are looking for advice on loving ourselves and our bodies from...Hollywood celebrities and movie stars?

So, I’ve read through the conversation, and I think it’s a great and valuable one (and thank you so much for this article too). And I personally do make a distinction between “deserves-prison” rape and “needs to be made very aware what an asshole he is, and to not be allowed anywhere near a woman until he learns what…

From this piece: http://qz.com/525264/bernie-…

It’s not just minority support. There are some white folks who find his supporters scary too.

Boy is this the truth. I’m a card carrying socialist leftie and I like Bernie, but his supporters are scary.

There’s nothing wrong with wondering why, as long as you’re willing to listen to the answers and not just “la la la la I can’t hear you because I am so much smarter.” Which I am not saying you’re doing. You may be genuinely exploring the question. If so, it needs to be done from a space of genuine interest and…

Wow. I have been trying to say exactly that in way more words and much less effectively. I’m going to just quote you from now on and drop the mic.

As evidenced in my case by the fact that I am here making a comment on the Internet instead of washing the dishes festering in my sink.

She was lucky as hell to get a chance to be part of this interview. Carrie Fisher is a good example of why we need to quit marginalizing older women and making them (us) invisible. Truths are there and need to be spoken by those who have run out of the fucks to give.

Carrie Fisher telling the truth. I love this woman.

Seriously? A woman who carried a baby for nine months and gave birth to it would not have parental rights? I’m not being snarky, I’m wondering. It seems to me that any baby you give birth to should be yours. I have no idea what the law says.

You guys are going to jump me for this but I have to do it because It Is My Mission. I have a history of severe abuse in childhood (torture, rape) and terrible problems with all the stuff (depression, anxiety, PTSD, agoraphobia). What I found out the hard way is that the meds were making it all worse. I was pretty…

I agree. But can’t we have both? Does marginalizing consensual sex workers in any way help or support or free those women who have been trafficked, coerced and exploited by our current system? I don’t understand why we can’t respect sex workers and still actively “help victims of coercion and abuse.” Doesn’t seem…