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An overview of tonight's coverage:

When I travel from Toronto to Cape Breton Island, there's always a point where I have to remember to "put my nice attitude on".

Reporter: "Hi Jeremy, I'm trying to complete this Mad Lib. Can you give me a first-person negative fragment, a contraction, the middle part of an informal simile, and an expression of confused exasperation?"

Whee! I appreciate it, and was also glad to see your link. Here i was so skittish about posting in the comments. I've been reading io9 for years and I think this is the 2nd time I've bothered to comment on anything. :)

I know. It was an intentional understatement ;)

I love seeing Vancouver in io9's posts! However, i have a small (and trying hard not to sound snippy or picky) request. I've slowly been increasingly mindful of how headlines will often refer to Canada (a term describing 3,854,085 sq mi of land that is variably populated). We have a few actual big cities, and

You make a damn fair point. For me, the problem in this particular instance is two fold.

First, she didn't articulate any problems with the intention versus actions of the feminist movement, so I have no real reason to assume that her problem is that the political movement of feminism isn't living up to nor aligning

Thanks for the response and I think you made some great points. I agree that it can be hard to support a movement with zero message control, but I think that applies to most movements. I think I'd just rather see women move away from the "being feminist means I don't support men" line of thinking, like Salma Hayek

It is ridiculous, and exceedingly arrogant, to get upset at people who support the same values as you because they don't want to self identify as part of your group.

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Rammstein has one of my favorites, seeing them live is awesome.

If you want people like Salma Hayek to not think Feminism is a dirty word, and want people to associate it with gender EQUALITY, then it's a whole lot more productive to actually act like how you say Feminism is, rather than hide behind a dictionary.

Yet the one who call themselves feminist have to deal with thousands of think-piece about how they aren't or can't be feminists. You can't have it both way.

Not mad at her. I'm barely calling myself a feminist as it with all the fuckery lately.

Oh look, a bunch of white women getting indignant over how a woman of color identifies her pro-woman activism.

First she is actually doing something about women's rights which is a hell lot more than most Tumbler feminists ever have done or will do.

White men don't receive the same level of (expletive) that women and people of color do online. They don't see the harassment. Of course they see a yes-man culture. They're not having their physical appearances — "You're ugly," "You're fat" — brought up.

The ability to hold a series lead?

wow,what a contribution. this is disrespectful to the victims of this worthless piece of shit.

Yeah all my expat friends were pretty impacted by their time in China, though my super naive friend who went to Vietnam had an adorable story which turned out to be money laundering.

White guy here, I was a bit racist this morning. I was asked what I thought of the Alibaba IPO. And damn if I didn't say I questioned the financial claims and documents coming out of China.