I gotta go with this one. Plus, despite any conservative bent he may have, Downey has also been seen palling around with Obama. So I don't really think he's actually a conservative; just may agree with them on some issues he feels really important.

If they dislike some major subset of feminist activism, why would they then proclaim to support those goals? Why do you think they dislike that feminist activism, if not because they don't support those goals?

For reals. All the comments going "but if you don't excuse my racism, you're siding with the enemy!!!!!!!" pretty much prove how fucking racist the movement is.

I think there's a danger in taking that attitude too far, though. I've been calling myself a feminist, loudly, since I learned what that word meant, and I have no plans to stop doing that. But I totally get why people don't. Feminism has a history of overlooking marginalized groups of women (women of color, poor…

Hayek is [sic] cannot be ignorant of feminism's struggles in the media and in the national consciousness.

That, and the fact that feminst circles can be hostile and intolerant. I'm a feminist but I definitely have issues with the movement.

Oh look, a bunch of white women getting indignant over how a woman of color identifies her pro-woman activism.

I, honestly, do not want to support feminism as it is now. It's not going to change no matter how loud or for how long I try to add my voice/opinions. We have shitty people at the helm and they're crashing the ship.

Women have different reasons for not wanting to identify themselves as "feminists."

First she is actually doing something about women's rights which is a hell lot more than most Tumbler feminists ever have done or will do.

It's always important when model-hot women take a stand for normal people.

that is absolutely true. Unfortunately not relevant here. You aged them both by a decade

I'm aware. That's why I don't say it. I was pointing out that others don't seem to share this sensitivity to the fact that words have meanings.

What makes you think I trivialize acts of sexual violence? I don't stand for people who use that language, it's atrocious and unacceptable. My disapproval of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen though.

Well, Lena didn't actually have any sex with her sister. But, how you interpret an experience matters as much as what the actual experience was. Maybe more. Yes, children can be manipulated, and yes, child molestation is against the law regardless. But it absolutely is complicated and how the person potentially abused…

I kind of just assumed she was being a senseless idiot when using that expression. Like when people say "I raped that test." I don't think she was actually describing herself as a predator I think she was making a tasteless and cheap joke.

Again. It really does matter if the victim in question interprets the action as abuse or not. Chris Brown doesn't. And it's really not for us to tell him that he should. That's not to say it is okay, what happened, but it still matters.