I think continually banning trolls until they eventually give up is way better than just letting them run rampant.

People who are like "THIS IS JUST TRASH TALK, GET OVER IT OMG" must have some seriously evil trash talk. When I trash talk, it's usually like vanilla "Booyah, I won. What's the matter? Cat get your controller?" stuff. Occasionally, if I'm extremely frustrated, I'll yell out a curseword. Maybe.

Up on Poppy Hill's alright - very much from the vein of Only Yesterday: slice of Japanese rural life. Not much happens, but it's a peaceful watch.

Yes, reporting on the "best reporters/writers/etc." and coming up with a mostly male list is sexist, considering the wealth of female reporters/writers that are out there covering all of those topics.

The lighting washes her out, but bone-structure-wise, the Tiana mannequin was probably one of the closest to the actual animated princess.

Perhaps this is a tangent, but I wonder if there's an inherent insecurity in immigrant communities that tends to keep perpetrating this kind of "you should act a certain way" mentality, because I was hearing talk about how I needed to act "more Asian" way into college and... heck, even now.

Yes! I tried to explain this to my boyfriend when we first started dating - I felt uncomfortable hanging around his work friends because the group he had was basically all white guys and their Chinese girlfriends. It was so strangely monotonous. I talked to him about how I just felt weird not hanging around more…

I love eating meat and consider it about as much a pre-requisite for modern life as air conditioning or mass transportation systems or cheap clothing (i.e. the concept isn't inherently evil, but the system needs to be changed yo), so I'm at best ambivalent to expensive attempts at an "unbloody" alternative.

I find it hard to believe that Twitter can monitor your tweets in order to sell you themed advertising, but can't develop an algorithm to see if you're consistently tweeting out hate speech.

India too! I was a little bummed that a friend of mine had her wedding at the end of me coming out of grad school (which meant I didn't really have the money to fly all the way to Goa for a five day bash), but had I been able to fork over the $1500, I would've had five days of outfits already picked out and paid for…

One thing I loved about living and bartending (kinda) in the U.K. was that drinks were mostly non-gendered. Beer is everybody's staple, gin is everybody's classy drink, vodka is for the 16-year-olds and whiskey is for the Adults (with a capital A).

I did have to unfollow a couple of dudes because they were putting up art that was verging on porn, and I really wasn't into seeing a great cauliflower soup recipe next to some disembodied women legs. :(

I have definitely had male friends who specifically started doing yoga so that they could ogle slim women stretching out their legs and then spent an uncomfortable amount of time afterwards discussing slim women bods and which flexible bitches they'd love to downward dog if you get my drift.

"exotic beauty" Ewwwwww

Oh, speaking of the whole equal opportunity objectification thing, just found this video by Marina and the Diamonds that all of us who were hoping that part of the feminist revolution would involve more man flesh on display will surely appreciate.

I think in the original Blurred Lines video, none of the women strayed from the feminine ideal. When you're doing a swap and the men are still dressing femme, then it still reinforces the idea that only femininity is objectifiable.

I agree (and for the record, I liked the video!) - this gets close, but for something that objectifies masculinity in the same way feminimity is objectified, the heels/make up is not quite there.

Twice, and both times by homeless people.

I don't buy Victoria's Secret because I had a friend named Victoria and feel weird about wearing underwear named after her, but that's my own neuroses

Right! I wish there was something in these sentences that was about teaching them why what they did was bad... which seems obvious, but apparently isn't considering even the god damn media covering the case can't figure it out.