Social change does not occur without some people being willing to take personal risks. It becomes more possible when that risk is spread around.

Thank you for writing this. Sometimes when I wander through Jezebel I feel as if the women's movement barely happened. I mean, wear false eyelashes and pencil skirts and 4" stilettos all you want, but please don't tell me that it's entirely because it makes you happy. Because those items weren't designed in a…

And, I've got news for the author of this piece, when you hit a certain age (different for every woman) it doesn't matter how pretty you manage to make yourself appear via the magic of make-up and good haircuts. You will still become invisible. That's why I think that, instead of learning to embrace the reality of…

Also, there is a confusing balance issue in this post. The post is about 1,000 words on how to be pretty followed by 50 words trying to argue that pretty is a bullshit social construct. Which is it? Because the author's emphasis on the myriad ways to be pretty seems like it is much more the point than the idea that…

I hate this. I hate this so much. It isn't fair that "pretty" is something I should be able to do and I'm penalized if I can't or won't.

How are people reading this as charm? The "porn for women" he's talking about is the feminist produced/directed shit that gets brought up in comments on this site every time someone mentions that the majority of porn is incredibly misogynist. No, no, you're just not looking in the right place! There's good stuff…

I can't wait for his and Robin Thicke's Guide to Feminism to come out in paperback. Call me when the majority of porn directors aren't dudes. Kthanksbai.

If your man is cheap and eats all of your food, lives with you and never pays any bills, I could see using the test to get $750 for an "abortion." People in need have to resort to stuff privilege people can never imagine.

Everything about my look as been about me trying to cut a corner. I have short, natural hair that is wash and go, that allows me, as a black woman, to cut out the $100 every other week and countless hours wasted in a salon, and I have probably $500 worth of MAC makeup sitting in a drawer at home that rarely gets used.…

Thank you. Every time I read one of these articles I want to yell "If you're spending that kind of time and money on beauty, it because you're choosing to!" Obviously there are extenuating circumstances for some people where they have to put in extra time and effort, but IMO it's disigenuous to point to a woman who…

I always feel weird commenting on these beauty posts because I have never felt the need to do all of that stuff at work. It's odd. Women talk about how they "need" to wear make-up and spend an hour on their hair every morning and I'm thinking, "Where the hell do you work?"

Hentai in Kentucky? That was unexpected.

Herbs are dangerous because they lack data, dosages cannot be controlled, quality is uncertain, interbatch variability in active ingredients can varies by powers of ten, etc, etc.

The Walking Dead: Lori, then Andrea

Gwen from Torchwood - sure, she did some awful things, she was deeply flawed, but who on Torchwood WASN'T? The amount of fan-hate for her was ridiculous.

The argument here isn't about whether or not Skyler is a likeable character - it's about why she gets such a disproportionate amount of vitriol (death threats to Anna Gunn, come on!) when she's part of an ensemble of generally terrible people.

It doesn't help that the (mostly male) writers of a lot of these shows seem to be able to pull off some kind of "awful/cool" balance for their male characters but not for their female ones. I mean, Don Draper is awful, but he's also on some level cool. Betty Draper is mostly just awful, and that's not "Betty…

You know, I read Anna Gunn's piece yesterday and I haven't been in fandom for years, but that was my first question: it's mostly women doing the hating, isn't it? I had hopes that things had changed. Thanks for mentioning it, I didn't want to have to ask as I'm perma-gray.

Another beautiful woman.

Right? I just saw a nice Tumblr essay on this the other day. Fandoms always hate disproportionately on female characters, and maybe the wider audience of Breaking Bad has just made this more obvious. I don't watch BB but this character sounds like she fits very nicely into that "obstructing the male characters' goals"…