EXCUSE ME? I'm a feminist who helped raise a bunch of cold, hard, vagina-loving cash for my city's local women's shelters at this year's local production of The Vagina Monologues and WHAT do you think was key in making it the success it was? HOLLERING AND VAGINA COSTUMES.
Before I go, I'd like to tell you about my neighbor's cousin's dog walker's boyfriend who made thousands investing in Capital Letters and Proper Punctuation. Follow this link for details: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
Also, you know, it's actually a good learning point to teach people NOT TO FUCKING STARE at women or body parts. Whether or not you want to see a boob with a baby latched onto it or not, learn not to fucking stare. Same logic when you see someone with a bad scar or amputation. Don't fucking stare.
Silly me. Of course you're right. Remember I am from that savage nation in Europe where they let people lie naked on the beaches (did you even know we had beaches in Germany?).
My brother's cat does that too, because she can't go outside, and she sits there and makes that weird clicking noise that is supposed to lure her prey to them, haha. It's actually fascinating to see how this dumb little chubkins of a cat knows proper hunting technique without ever having stepped foot outside.
Socialization. I've met plenty of women who are very tech savvy but still adhere to the "oh silly me, I have no idea of what I'm doing" stereotype in order not to appear threatening to their coworkers, while some men who do not understand how some stuff works pretend they know exactly what they are doing for fear of…
Women and girls who are technology-savvy not only exist, they surround you. You have only a vague idea of our existence, it is true. You "get that [we] are out there," like UFOs or a non-disgusting diet soda. A hypothetical. A myth.
When I was in Peace Corps I saw one of our most misogynistic local cowboys wearing a pro-feminist t-shirt. I died of irony on the spot.
Badger State ladies - make the move to the Gopher State. If you bring the New Glarus, we will share our marriage equality and family planning resources with you. We can grill brats, go boating, and egg Michelle Bachman.
Maternal/paternal leave is the greatest thing ever. I wish there was more of it. I love spending time with my kids, especially when I was a dad of an infant. I think, as an unintentional consequence, the two working parents taking leave in shifts to care for an infant is really good for the family as a whole. That…
My husband and I just attended a wedding and gave $100 to the lovely bride and groom. It wasn't easy to do, financially, and if we could have afforded to give more, we certainly would. The timing of this article made me take a deep breath because I thought that $100 was a rather standard gift amount. This…
Two of my friends got married in the winter at city hall, but later that summer, they got married at the summer camp where they first met . (We all worked there together) She's English and he's Puerto Rican. The summer camp had finished and all of the wedding guests stayed in the cabins. His family did up the camp…
I can't help but wonder if the Supreme Court released their decisions strategically so that a) it would seem like they were "respecting" states rights by giving control of voting back to the states, taking the federal government out of marriage, and sending Prop 8 back to state courts and b) DOMA's repeal's…
Ugh. What. The. Fuck. That he giggled and blushed about it bothers me very much. I mean, the whole thing is just a gross violation, don't get me wrong.
Same here, but the other thing is, the "physical labor" occurred less often than the "woman's work".
Kind of an apples-to-Buicks comparison, to my ear. Jezebel commenters can sometimes have a certain defensiveness, I think, but mostly because Jezebel as a woman-centered site occupies a somewhat unique position in the Gawkerverse. And that position in the recent past has often been one of a siege mentality.
As someone who spends most of her time on Jezebel (as opposed to any of the other Gawker sites), I'll mostly agree with olal below - I think it can be a really tough community to break into. But I do want to say two things:
Olal, thank you for posting this response, I think it sums up really the different 'feels' of the different sites-articulates the manner of discussion on Jezebel vs. Kotaku vs. Gawker vs. io9.
Every Gawker site has its own policy and community. All they share are basic similarities in the site design.
