I still think you can critique the structures and narratives of misogyny in another country (while remaining critical of your own). And, to be blunt, it’s pretty damn bad in France. It wasn’t “two old ladies,” it was 100+signatures, plus ‘LeMonde’, which gave a platform to the damn thing.

As my Anglophone Canadian grandmother used to say to my Francophone Canadian grandfather, “France needs to remember it lost.”

That’s true. He’s a confirmed pedophile.

“I’m not fan of the term oppression Olympics but I’ll be damned if some of you aren’t fighting for that gold medal.”

This is absolutely worth celebrating but don’t let the rage die down. She should never, ever have been punished in any way for this, to start with.

What have you been smoking? Have you been paying attention to what’s been happening to public schools? Budgets being cut left and right, more and more fundraisers for basic school needs, and the glorification of private/charter/choice options as the “answer to our failing public schools.” Have you been to an inner…

I work for the government, specially in an area that targets underserved populations.

THANK YOU so much for posting this. Mcgowan not only silenced and kicked out a trans woman (who asked legitimate questions about problematic comments Mcgowan made about trans women), but then she was consoled by the mostly white audience. This is the epitome of #whitefeminism.

Except historically when this approach is used and the majority group gets what they want, they tend to fuck off and leave the rest to fend for themselves (eg. the entire women’s suffrage movement)

ahahhaa I DIDN’T SEE THE /S

“What have you done for women?”

This thing is a troll, and I don’t know who let it out of the greys

You know we’ve been there and done that and after it seemed like being all about us and only us was getting us somewhere we have Trump in the White House and I’m sure we will lose the right to make reproductive choices for ourselves if he gets a second term. If he gets to appoint just two more judges to the Supreme…

UGH!! The honey and vinegar shit is thrown around all the time. Anyone who uses that is treating WOC as children, and that person can go play in traffic.

(rubs hands together) may i just be the first to say...

Yep. We make it clear that men can’t hit one another, and everyone seems to accept that’s sensible and appropriate - for example, in Victoria (Australia), there’s a law that says a single punch is prosecutionable as a serious crime, after a series of ‘king hit’ attacks sent young men to hospital and even killed them.…

Um. Yeah.  We have to work at least twice as hard to get half as far (more so if we’re women of color). We have to “set the boundaries” at work or on a date. We have to be the ones to risk our jobs to report misconduct or harassment or failure to pay us equally — and sometimes we have to leave our jobs when the man…

“Speaking of this moment, as a culture we’ve gone from not listening, hearing or believing women, and how were we going to skip over the whole part where women get to be heard, and go straight to the redemption of the perpetrators?” Ferrera responds. “Can’t we live in that space where it’s okay for perpetrators to be…

What’s ironic is that even as we comment on posts about women being brave and refusing to back down, so many women, including me, feel sheepish and “mean” for saying that self-professed allies should be self-aware enough to realize they are taking up too much bandwidth.

catholic all-girls high school. he was there for the girls.