Every time I read or listen to something about ‘Upward Mobility’ it inevitably and inescapably makes the presumption that moving up as a POC or a woman or any other minority in a rigged system designed for cisgender white men has a positive connotation; that it is something to be proud of oneself for and aspire to.

I was correctively raped as a result of being asexual. He was going to "fix" me.

So I'm Australian so feel free to bash away, but I am gobsmacked at the "child safety" priorities here. Every day I read on my newsfeed in the US about mass school shootings of children, children shooting each other at home, a 2 year old shooting their mother in Walmart, accidental death of 6 year olds playing with…

Your answer is exactly the problem I'm having. I asked an honest, sincere question. Your reaction was to insult me, while giving a thoughtful response. However, another person had a completely different answer and encouraged the question and gave an equally thoughtful response. Two different people, two highly…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

I find most of this essay very powerful. One area I wonder about is where you think good white people feel like they should be rewarded - what should good white people do then? Not delete trolls? Not be outraged? Keep the outrage to themselves? I understand the frustration of people seemingly wanting to be…

It would be very disheartening to see a reddit troll('s likely lie) ruin this for everyone. GT always finds a way though ;)

From the mods on GT: Please remember, everyone, that while we state this as often as we can it never gets old: Jezebel and Groupthink are very public places. While GT is a nice spot and we get the benefit of heavy moderation and a supportive community, it is still VERY public. My general advice is to not do…

Friendly reminder that the US edition of Time Magazine sees its readers as idiots and is terrified of covering any issue of substance:

I'm not commenting on the abuse debate, but just out of curiosity, did you read the book? Because all of the quotes being discussed in the media over the last few days are cherry picked from a longer autobiography (which I didn't read but Jia did). Unless everyone in the comment section read the book, it's pretty…

Fuck off. I don't owe you shit when your entire "perspective" is that women aren't human and need to have their sluttiness managed by men.

I understand your perspective just fine. Talk about babies all you want but you hate women who have sex and do nothing but try and kill them. You do nothing FOR living children. In fact, you guys vote against anything that would enable women to plan their pregnancies and manage their fertility, because you don't…

The anger that poured out of me when I was told that was the earliest I could have it done? I don't think I've ever been that outwardly and blatantly angry. It's awful, but I live in Memphis so I wasn't really surprised and my clinic was PACKED the day of because some women had traveled from Mississippi to have their…

Why the wife? Are their views particularly toxic?

The trouble is that no one really should listen or adopt the views of the wife in a far right wing Christian separatist family, except if it is about hairspray or tater tot casserole. I'm sure many do, at least in their district, because they've always been politically active, but really, man, they're right wing…

Nope. Nice try. 0/10.

Isn't it ironic that it took The Troll trolling on the other Gawker sites to finally tackle the problem?

I feel like, if you are looking into surrogacy, you should make it clear in the contract before inserting fertilized eggs that you have no interest in raising any potential disabled children, so that the surrogate knows going into it that she might have to abort, keep the disabled child, or give it up for adoption. …

A science writer, please. A women's site that bemoans the lack of encouragement and support and opportunity for women in STEM fields is great - one that actually shares and does thoughtful analysis of scientific studies and new advances with a slant towards those that might be pertinent to women would be amazing.