Then the translator or the translated had a poor grasp if the language. Millions if not billions of people have managed to use gender-neutral pronous for ages to communicate successfully, without immediate knowledge about the gender of the owner of the table or the table from pronouns.

Somewhat related (and insomnia is a bitch): Ages ago I was studying Italian and a native English-speaker in my class was bothered by the fact that in Italian, the gender of the possessive determiner depended on the subject ("sua tavola" because tavola is feminine). He said something along the lines of: "But how will…

When describing transgender people, please use the correct term or terms to describe their gender identity. For example, a person who is born male and transitions to become female is a transgender woman, whereas a person who is born female and transitions to become male is a transgender man.

I wrote about this when Jezebel did a post on Kitestring. Amusingly enough I saw a similar, but more practical app being written about in another Gawker media blog I can't find a link to now. But that one wasn't gendered, and really most technology is ill-suited for the real dangers that specifically women face.

Supporting and promoting academic research in gender studies instead of for-profit clickbait that gives these pathological asshats 10000 times the attention they had before?

On the one hand I agree with everyone writing to you to tell you to fuck off, but on the other I agree that this post of hers doesn't help anyone. The antagonism toward "fuckers who think they deserve a platform" in a piece that gives them 10000x the audience they had before should be indicative of the fact that the…

I know it's against my own point to even comment here, but I feel like someone should have looked at the forum in an academic context, not like this. The guys on this forum must be loving the attention. "We should all write manifestos" indeed. They got under the skin of a "feminist" - the quotes are there because even…

Wow, you should re-post this comment again in a relevant circumstance because it provides valuable insight that the posts that go along the lines of "those barbarians are forcefully sterilizing transgender folk!", which is one example of the dominance of American voices you bring up (not that I don't support removing…

Can we not recognize both double standards: One shames people for what the act means while the other takes away the privacy of the act, which also leads to more shame. Men can jack off in piece, but that makes them losers, while women aren't deemed losers, but that's because they mainly do it for the enjoyment of…

I think you have to be a little sheltered yourself to be too judgmental about Kim K's naivete. What do they think would be a statement on racism from Kim Kardashian, someone who is not exactly associated with for deep thoughts and has never spoken up on the subject before? Do they expect reality stars with high-school…

Can't argue with cognitive biases.

I knew this was a concept I wasn't going to get a lot of love for finding fault with a system related to such an emotional issue, and I doubt those people will go through the trouble of reading or looking at the graphs.

Please show me your data that backs up your view of it being more dangerous for women to walk home at night. There is nothing wrong with "text me when you get home". I've done it, as does my father when he travels for work in less-stable parts of the Middle-East.

But it doesn't seem to allow specifications of your location (and it's an SMS service, so no GPS tracking), so you would have to let your contacts know where you are anyway through other means, and if you are in another country for example, a bunch of other information if there was an emergency. I'd figure out…

Any cosmetic procedure that is common among the Jezebel readership was done as a choice to please their innate aesthetic sense (my Italian nose just wasn't proportional to my face!), unrelated to the pressures of society, while things common with older people or procedures like bletharoplasty are depressing examples…

Why does the kite have to be pink? Is it really more dangerous for women to walk home where you live? For me the service sounds like the patronizing dude that insists on walking you home although you know the chances of anything happening are lower than winning the lottery in your area, and the girls that is shocked…

Even masturbation involves some exertion on the body and there was an article saying sexual activity can even trigger migraines with aura, but even the abstract of that study was behind a paywall, but this suggests the opposite could be quite common.

That's strange, personally I find masturbation to be helpful for migraines and I remember hearing of a study supporting this to some extent.

What I don't get is why nobody heard about this when France legalized marriage while still having the same kind of law on the books, or some other similar instance. If you follow global human rights organizations, this shouldn't be news, - I even brought this up to a Jezebel writer over a year ago.. Although Finland…