Articles like this- well-researched, nuanced, adding historical context to today's topics, sharply analyzed, and well-written- are my favorite part of the Jez: The Next Generation

Have you seen the video of the dermatologist in India clearing blackheads off a gentleman's nose?

It is everyone's most embarrassing, horrible fetish. I once read an interview where the lovely Helena Bonham-Carter talked about how much she loved popping her zits and how satisfying it was. Loved that she gave voice to what everyone thinks and does.

Ugh, same. Wait, can it be a fetish if it's not sexual? Because it's not sexual for me but it is so super satisfying.

zit popping, my most embarrassing, horrible fetish.

Um, the damsel in distress is a "classic story" because it is archaic and based on sexist stereotypes that once were taken at face value, but now need to be questioned and transformed instead of continuously perpetuated. Which, incidentally, is exactly what Sarkeesian's point is. Funny how that works!

i just got authorship rights at a sub blog, i am totally planning on writing about problematic popular music, and BB is gunna be my first topic. they REALLY have come a long way, and it's very honest, genuine and inspiring.

You know, it's amazing: I went to a top-tier, high-pressure college with no Greek life (school policy; it was banned) and yet somehow we managed to relax on weekends, spend time with our friends, socialize and preserve our mental health just fine.

*Holds up megaphone and chants* THIS IS WHAT ENTITLEMENT LOOKS LIKE

God, ground those babies from parties for the rest of their academic careers. Their leather Sperry boat shoes will be the chalices from which I quaff their spoiled ass,
whiny baby, well coifed tears.

Uhh. These two unrelated people do not look remotely similar.

Seriously white people, it's not always about you.

It's also supremely narcissistic. "All non-whites want to look like me (a white person)."

The "double phoenix" eyelid was considered gorgeous long before European contact. And whiter skin, as in many places, signifies a life lived in indoor leisure and not out labouring in the fields.

Please stop with the assumption that Asian plastic surgery ideals are in any way shaped by European ideals. Many East Asians naturally have a double eyelid. The ideal of light skin is a classist issue — those who had darker skin tended to be poor laborers who were forced to work outside. Whether or not these SHOULD be…

Can we please stop with the "European standards of beauty" trope every time we talk about Asians who prefer double eyelids and lighter skin? It's a particularly Eurocentric view and it's a bit annoying.

FELLOW WHITE PEOPLE: NOT EVERY PERSON OF COLOR WHO GETS PLASTIC SURGERY DOES SO TO LOOK MORE WHITE. None of these women look anymore European than before. Stop with the mental masturbation.

Yeah. And for quite a few of them, the changes that are Definitely Of Surgical Origin are pretty subtle — most of the "big difference" comes from dim bad lighting on a bare face vs professional (and probably retouched) photography and loooooaaaads of makeup. And as someone who regularly wears loooaaaaads of makeup, I…