I agree! I discussed the title IX cases with my mother this weekend and while I got a look for my comments on the idiocy of dating faculty (something I did in undergrad) we agreed: we’re adults, we shouldnt hide stupid choices behind legal action the morning after. (This is not a comment on sexual assault or rape but…

So happy to read this! I honestly loved her first essay, and I can’t wait to read the most recent one (behind the chronicle’s pay wall right now). There are so few feminists out there arguing that young women should be empowered to make mistakes without seeing them as trauma, and I think Kipnis was incredibly…

I mentioned this to you earlier today, Natasha, but over the past year, I’ve found the public face of the movement to grow more and more divorced from what it seems society needs feminism to be doing. In one corner, we have pandering celebrities who have tapped into the lucrative Tumblr activist demographic by…

Its is called Revoltions by Mike Duncan, who did the awesome History of Rome podcast.

I am listening a great podcast about the French Revolution right now...and it is amazing how fast that revolution ended up eating its own children because of the ever moving line of who is a revolutionary and who is not. Sadly...all revolutions go throught this.

I’m a life-long feminist who at 34 is starting to feel very much on the outside of this tent. What the fuck are these student’s going for here?

What part of this current iteration of feminism do you most identify with? The policing? The intolerance to differing views? The clinging to victimhood? I see none of myself in it.

Much as I love Courtney B. Vance, what a missed opportunity for Phil Morris!

The scene of Sansa being raped was brutal, but I’m not mad that they showed it precisely because I think a lot of people don’t yet understand that rape is brutal. Also, I didn’t interpret the scene as a glorification of rape, but rather an indictment of it, seeing as it was designed to be gut-wrenching to watch.

It’s like she’s a Mucha

This is so beautiful my heart hurts

Great. An Aussie collaborating with a company who don't ship to Australia.

“But she’s your mother...”

You know what I notice? The way I can’t talk about it. Like if people are talking about their happy childhoods, I can’t talk about mine. Because then I’m ruing the party, being depressing.....whatever.

Really? That just seems tasteless and out of place to me.

He lost his hair, that’s about it. Otherwise he looks like he did 15 years ago.

I agree, this was a lovely, nuanced, well written piece. Also, the writer is super cute, with or without makeup.

Hi Katherine The Grape :) I hope you will take a moment and read through all of the incredibly kind comments others have left for me. It has been so touching. And it would be so wonderful if you could feel this as well. I’d love to see your Mall Makeover.

Thanks so much :) Your comment made me smile!

Someone asked last week why the Mall Makeover series even exists, suggesting that these are inherently uninteresting. THIS right here is more than enough justification for this to exist (just to be clear, I love this series and enjoy every single article).