@peasantpoesies: I hate when people won't accept that some concepts that don't seem gendered are gendered. I think that's so fundamental to understanding how sexism operates now: of course it's linguistically buried, but it's not invisible.

@Rare Affinity: I hope and assume that that's sarcasm... Sometimes it's so hard to know!

@vamusical: Genuinely surprised I hadn't hearted you before now. But you're so hearted now.

@DailyLattes:

@sabranee1: It was the New York Times, not TIME. Still: lol.

@Rhinostic: If you think Vanessa Watkins' "budget discrepancies" are going to change the fact that you complained about boys being "exposed to Kayla," you are mistaken. Prioritising the needs of the boys in the locker room above Kayla's own needs simply because her body is female means this is a discrimination issue.…

@PrisonBreakShaker: Oh, okay, I just read "being in a relationship" as including sex and physical intimacy. I don't think "relationship" politics are particularly relevant here, and anyway there's no point quibbling with semantics: it's clear we disagree.

@PrisonBreakShaker: Lady Gaga is bisexual. I have no idea why you think she has "no interest in being in a relationship with a woman". She's as much a member of the LGBTQ community as anyone, and a vocal one at that. Are you going to erase her stake in their interests just because she likes men as well? Have you…

@MWAussie: Roman Polanski wasn't "accused of" a crime. He committed rape. If you still "like [him] just fine," then we are clearly deeply and fundamentally disagreed on when it is okay to "like" a person.

@Nico Coer: Totally. The idea of every parent universally wanting to cling to their child while every child universally attempts to escape is really strange. Many people would like closer relationships with their parents, surely. You just don't hear that narrative a lot.

@elyseface: YES. Hearted so much.

@Thus Spake Kate is effulgent.: Honestly? Not as much as they do on TV. I spent so much of my teenage life miserable because I thought "everyone" was having sex that I wasn't having. On TV, whenever one young person liked another even mildly, they would have sex, and in some cases possibly angst over it in the next…

@honorabright: How so? I really don't see any concern trolling going on here: I think NOW are just pointing out that if Hooters claims its staff are hired to provide "sexual" entertainment, it shouldn't simultaneously claim to be family-friendly. I don't think they're worried about the effect on children so much as…

@thesuperpet: I don't think the members of NOW are worried about taking their own actual children to actual Hooters restaurants. They're pointing out that Hooters is routinely dishonest in how it characterises its own business: one minute, it snakes out of employment law by claiming that it provides "sexual…

@diasdiem: A trans boy or man is someone born with female sex organs who identifies as male. Just for what it's worth, I think it might possibly be more appropriate to Google terms you don't understand rather than asking about them in the comments. No snark intended.

@florabore: I don't think Enda Kenny has any interest whatsoever in abortion, or even women's rights in general. Labour are pro-choice, but I worry that they'll be watered down by their coalition with Fine Gael. Like you say, fingers crossed.

@TheTriarii: Thank you for adding to the discussion? I'd like anyone who reads this to imagine that I refuted the argument you didn't bring up with maximum eloquence and wit.

@Titania: It's nothing to do with self-esteem. I'm pretty much a critic of the cult of self-esteem, as it happens; this isn't about that.

@grace darling: I know. It's like, I was nodding, and then there was a line break, and then I didn't know what was going on anymore.

@Titania: Surely the people you consider "club trash," manage, despite your contempt for them, to have personal opinions, history and objective value of their own. You might not like them, that's totally cool. But surely the point is that everyone is valuable, no matter what their priorities.