"I'm not trying to detract from the seriousness of the article..."

What spurred the article was a bomb threat obviously. Also Christina is not a feminist v.v

Christina Sommers is not a feminist.

"...pushback from other feminists like Christina Sommers."

I explained in the article what spurred it. Did you miss that or not believe it? There were allegations last week that Sarkeesian lied about informing the police about harassment. A critic of hers had a person from the SFPD on audio saying they hadn't heard from Sarkeesian. That was certainly a story I felt we should…

Christina Sommers included in "other feminists"? You must be joking.

This is some Betty and Veronica shit, and, for once, I'm rooting for Betty.

Did you really just attempt to teach a Jamaican about Jamaica?!

I disagree with everything you just said. Cultural appropriation isn't simply "borrowing" from other cultures. When people talk about Miley Cyrus and her instances of cultural appropriation, they're talking about the fact that she uses aspects of black culture for her monetary gain. She may supposedly enjoy being…

Idk I thought the video was cute. Black women, including myself, are understandably sensitive to how we're being represented in the media, and I myself felt a little awkward seeing the twerkers and Taylor Swift dressing like them at first, but after watching the video a few times, I came to the conclusion that Taylor…

I agree. I think that this doesn't bother me because it was included as a part of dance styles in general - she recognized that hip-hop is a legitimate dance style and gave it no more disdain than any of the other ones. And if the point was that she doesn't fit in there, then is she really appropriating?

Oh, and this video has quite a few POC in it. Like I said earlier I'm a POC myself so I think I always notice when pop music videos are all/99% white (almost all the time unless the artist isn't white) and this one has much more racial inclusion in ALL the styles of dancing. I'm the first to admit I'm a biased TSwift…

Thank you for this! I think this music video was terrible because it was cheesy and just after school-special-y, but I didn't get the 'appropriation' outrage either, which I knew Jez and some other sites would jump on ASAP. And I'm a POC as well, FWIW.

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

#notalltrolls.

You know, I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but this is the first article that actually made me compare the Jahi McMath case and this one. It's a bit horrifying to me that what I believe to be the same situation (a brain dead patient) can have such wildly different outcomes. At the very least these cases call for a…

I feel so sorry for this family. And the idiots who passes this law should be ashamed of themselves. Are any of the forced-birth people here to explain why this is a good idea?

OK, within about twenty-four hours, we've had Steve Pearce say that a wife is to "voluntarily submit" to her husband, Mike Huckabee tell us that he's fighting for women by denying them birth control coverage, and now this crap?

Jesus AND scientific stupidity. If anything says "I know Jews," it's that combo.

This is my district! It's also really Jewish, which makes it a great place to pedal the message of Jesus!