I think the most important one is surely "understand your privilege"? Applicable not just to men but to white people, middle-class people, straight people, all the way across the board. Almost everyone has privilege of some kind. Learning to understand it is a process that probably doesn't actually end at any point…

Cue five hundred links to pictures of Marilyn Monroe in a swimsuit to see who can make her look the most "skinny," "fat" or "normal" depending on how they felt sizing was in the fifties.

This is one of my favourite ever things on Jezebel. "Why would you spend all your time thinking about fucking them?" I am so glad to be able to share in the hilarity of this.

It is hugely controversial to assert that artists' work is strengthened by oppression. With your pregnancy example, either that's a hugely misogynistic slur about the artistic capacities of mothers - Sylvia Plath? Alice Munro? - or an all-round admission that you enjoy the oppression of artists you admire. Either…

Whoa, guys. It's the Person Who Decides What Is Important. Everyone just chill, because they're here now, so all our subjective preferences and the utterly discursive nature of the world around us is moot. Kind of feels like a relief, honestly.

I really hope that's not it for Sandy as a character. Although the conversation between him and Hannah was pitch-perfect (and made her look so much worse than him), to dismiss him after only two appearances would look like she included him to make Hannah look extremely right-on - and then went back to her pretend…

Yes. The only way to use a woman's body as a signifier for sex and violence is this one plastic promo torso. In every other part of culture, women are happy thriving individuals with a range of body types and interests.

I am a feminist who is happy to be called a cis woman, and tries to acknowledge at every point how cis-centric mainstream discourse is. I really hope more feminists wake up to transphobia and I totally appreciate your point.

But it's really easy to do for a human. I just watched the cup. Claiming to have a bell-finding skill-set equivalent to that of a cat isn't really a big deal for a human. I think the point is, it's a cat. You know? A cat, and everything.

Even if it doesn't actively cause increases in violence, it affects women in a visceral and distressing way to see representations of their bodies dismembered for the amusement of men. We're never going to be the main characters in our own culture as long as our bodies are only used to signify sex and violence.

Perfect.

I'm twenty-one and female and I live in Ireland, so the people I hang out with are mostly Irish people aged around twenty-one. I am not used to females in my peer group being "overweight or chubby" and I am neither overweight nor chubby. Nor am I Rihanna-sized. I don't actually know where you're getting the…

Considering the average weight range for women in the US, Rihanna is definitely skinny. I fail to see a reasonable metric by which she wouldn't be considered skinny.

What? In what developed countries is Rihanna's weight "normal"? Or even within a broader average range?

It seems clear that YA is a conservative, bourgeois phenomenon because books that deal with adolescence and adolescent sexuality in honest, unsettling ways are almost never classed as YA. Does anyone honestly consider The Catcher in the Rye or The Bell Jar to occupy the same literary-generic space as Twilight or The…

I thought that Doug was trying to call out the media's usual bullshit of profiling criminals' mothers. The article's headline and its use of words like "sensationalised" and "lurid" speak to the fact that this is a critique rather than a straight-up re-writing of the original profile. It also points out important…

Word.

Folks, srsly?

Not to worry! There is a pro-choice movement in Ireland and has been for a long time, but due to a number of different factors - the influence of the Catholic Church being a large one - the anti-abortion campaign managed to add a "pro-life amendment" to our Constitution in the 1980s which is going to be hard to…

Preach.