I often struggle with this, too. I love Tracee Ellis Ross. And I’m so glad she sees herself as the beautiful, dynamic, brilliant person that she is. And I also appreciate her willingness to talk about how bodily standards affect her as a woman of color.

Abortion is fucking legal. Abortion is fucking LEGAL. ABORTION IS FUCKING LEGAL.

Meet Judit Polgár. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE Top 100 players rating list, ranking…

He is almost God’s perfect person

I have always liked Leighton.

I can say from a rather short experience that solitary confinement is torture in every way but name.

I was picked up on an outstanding warrant, having just left a rehab facility for a variety of issues (drug and alcohol abuse, major depressive disorder, etc.), and was taken to my local jail. I was in an already…

His story hit me the hardest watching the 13th. His life was stolen from him and from his mother. Even if he did steal the backpack (which he didn’t), how can anyone say that crime justifies three years in solitary confinement?  

Cut them some slack. People are just animals who invented pants. Don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed.

I love Hailee Steinfeld’s dress. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but the movement is so pretty

So cool. I have an 18 month old and I was all good with being pregnant in the first few months, but about half way through, I started hating it. And I felt really bad to admit that. Don’t stress, how you feel about being pregnant physically has nothing to do with how you’ll feel about being a mom. I think more women…

1. Without video evidence, these two boys would get criminal records that could socially and economically cripple them for life. They still might.

So this guy fucked up in all kinds of ways. He created the entire situation, pulled his gun, then shot it, either accidentally or on purpose. I’m so sick of people with power thinking they can do whatever in the fuck they want to other people.

These are kids, for crying out loud. KIDS. He, as a fucking police officer who has had significant training for these types of situations, should know how to handle it without having to pull out his gun and shoot it. It was not the child’s responsibility to de-escalate shit.

All I can think about when I consider the farce that is contemporary feminism is Kim Kardashian. In fact, the entire family hides behind the term to justify their bullshit which is actually meant to make us feel worse and therefore worship them. I am a feminist and like others here, I will continue to use the word but…

She made some stellar points but as soon as she said a negative thing about Beyonce (and she is fucking right about it) and marriage y’all lost the plot and can’t talk about any thing else. “Omg’ I’m getting married, ‘omg being a 24/7 feminist’, ‘omg Queen Bey’. Now you’re breaking your backs to discredit her because…

I think it can be too easy to undermine feminism by reducing the “equal treatment” definition to something that applies only to individual actions (and conscious, deliberate ones at that). That’s not helpful when the issue is systemic, and not reducible to an individual level. It’s too easy for people to say “well, I…

This is amazing. This is the first time that I’ve heard about this author, but now I’ll definitely buy the book when it comes out.

I think, after reading the article, that the author would probably be vaguely annoyed at how shallow your reading of her statements are. She’s not at all saying that “feminism has morphed into man-hating”, she’s saying that feminism has morphed into vapid self-empowerment mantras and a quest to find a way of…

Same. Although she had a point to be made about Beyonce and Capitalism, but we’re not allowed to talk about that so.....

I don’t totally agree with everything here and I don’t think we should spend our lives policing each other over minor infractions but am really starting to dislike the Roxane Gay ‘Bad Feminist’ crowd that screams down anyone critical of other women who let the side down for their own selfish, bullshit reasons. No,…