@josephine beuys: Completely agreed. They're assigning her a position she never really claimed.

@samanthajonesprqueen: The premise of the blog is that she is a rich, conventionally attractive girl who forgoes all her opportunities to get laid in the name of fashion.

@DigThatFunk: She is not the one talking about feminism though. It's the NYtimes and Jezebel trying to put those words in her mouth. I read her blog, it's a fashion blog with a schtick she plays up for giggles.

I think she started the blog as a joke and is rolling with it. "Man-repelling" was, "I'm so into fashion I am willing to never get laid again," not a statement on anything bigger. Don't think she was thinking much about its relevance to feminism until people started asking her questions like that.

@Peppermint: You can be small and hard, gentle but unemotional, emotional but unempathetic, empathetic but not nurturing, dressed correctly but still ugly etc. etc. etc.

I don't believe there is such a thing as "femininity" or "masculinity". They are whatever set of traits a particular culture chose to focus on in order to emphasise the differences between men and women.

Or take his real name and be Laura Lifshitz. Usually I would say she should just keep her name, but that name is Bush. Dilemma.

@Alibelle: I was under the impression most European countries didn't make you choose. I know Spain doesn't.

@Kate2.18: In clubs and stuff I don't go by myself because I don't want to be completely ~separated from the herd in a sea of strangers. But that's the only situation I can think of where it happens.

@ZiggyStarPuff: Same, especially when I think about aging. It's weird to remember you can get old and die without it being cancer.

@miss.terious: I wonder the same, really. Have a ton of kids, make half of them be dependent on you indefinitely in a single-income household, and you know daddy can't have gotten very far in life if he needs to have this much authority at home... mysterious.

@Yatta!: I wish I could fit my wallet in my pocket, but women's clothes don't generally have the same pocket space as men's.

Ugh those comments. How much people demonise "gold-diggers" is so ridiculous. It is really not a crime. Like when people said Mel Gibson was a victim because she was only after him for his money - like he and the sugar daddies on that site didn't seek that out specifically because they like having that power over…

@rainy_day: The worst that humanity has to offer, in the form of a message board. It has been around forever, to remind us exactly how much people suck. Especially if they are males who haven't gotten laid as much as they feel they deserve.

@queenhobart: oh, that i don't know. but yeah, all they've proven is that hate-filled teenage boys and eternal teenagers care more about animals than women, so let's not change anybody's opinion of them.

@queenhobart: lol ok but their definition of "good" does not include "concern for women". They saved some animals, great. They also harassed that 11 year old youtube girl and threatened her with rape and murder.

@la.donna.pietra: Meh, I'm not convinced. What about those nice slow shots of Christian Bale's ass in the shower in American Psycho? Damn, nice muscles. Still not crucial information, except to let us know that he believes in taking care of his body. Whether or not the director and certain members of the audience…

@the.schwartz.is.not.with.me.: It's because nobody considers ballet dancers to be athletes, when in fact they are. Sumo wrestlers do some pretty extreme stuff to themselves, nobody is out there pitying those poor victims of bad eating habits.

@la.donna.pietra: "but I think it's because he was seen as being a super-hot dude prior to that movie."

@la.donna.pietra: "I cannot think of a single female role in Hollywood that has involved significant weight loss or gain that hasn't revolved around sexuality or eroticism"