Yes, fuck Fianna Fáil forever.

I'm sorry for your experiences here in Ireland. You have my sympathy and, as an Irish woman living in Ireland myself, my solidarity.

Ireland has a feminist movement, and has had one since before women were granted the vote - which was as soon as we were granted independence, and before our sisters in the UK. I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but it's pretty privileged and ignorant to just write us out of existence without even taking the time…

Suffers from being US specific. The terms pro-choice and pro-life are international; it would be good if new terminology was too.

The novel was considered effeminate and unsuitable for male writers and readers during some periods of its history. So the idea that teenage girls narrate in a novelistic way is certainly linguistically and culturally interesting.

Yeah that's all great and everything but, someone's got to be the orange dot, right? I mean, there is an orange dot. So I guess I'm the dot, you guys. Sorry everyone. This dot is taken.

We can, and should, report this page. It violates Facebook's Terms of Service and is pretty grotesque to boot. We won't be missing out on a world of interesting discourse by having it shut down. If you use Facebook, report it.

Rolling with the hypothesis that women's oppression stems from the fact that we can be easily physically dominated by men, and extrapolating from that the idea that men's violence stems from an ability to subjugate others of their species, and women have had no incentive / desire to do that, I've always felt that a…

Yeah, how dare a model have a human body! FAIL!

I don't see the problem with calling it "Paris" or "that Paris song".

I have noticed that in an unusual amount of staged pictures! Would a quick rinse kill them? So yes, I agree.

The picture looks pretty clearly staged to me. The high-quality set-up of the photograph, the tea and artfully-placed sugar cubes on the ground, the model's position and expression. In fact, I don't understand how it could even be pretending to be real: if she took it or someone else took it with her consent, why does…

Lately I'm unable to stop accumulating weight. I've cut down on calories again and again and counted with strict mathematical precision, but no matter what I do I keep gaining about three or four pounds a week. I'm not technically overweight yet so my doctor isn't interested, besides which my bloodwork shows there's…

WORD.

I think that ignores most of my analysis, though. Hermione kicks ass and I said so, but the rest of my points stand regardless.

Hermione's fab, but the rest of this assessment is hugely rose-tinted.

I didn't say, nor did I mean, that thirteen-year-olds don't or can't have sexual feelings. What I said was that while most of them do, many of them don't. Lots of young women don't reach puberty until fourteen or even fifteen, and depending on their own individual sexuality, a lot of them still won't feel particularly…

She could also buy a far more attractive dress for $100. And probably for $50. I've almost definitely bought more attractive dresses for €80, but I'm not great on exchange rates.

@Covertconvert: But, as Thus Spake Kate actually already asked you, what if I genuinely disagree with all aspects of conservative belief? I'm not going to say I hate conservative people themselves, but with respect, "conservatism" is a word in the English language with a commonly accepted and shared meaning. It's not…

@Dancingfrog: I actually think the fact that Sheen or Gibson are "role models" is less appalling than the fact that they're human beings. Spousal abuse is wrong whether you're a celebrity or not. I don't think there's a scale of wrongness according to how many people you could conceivably influence by your actions,…