I grew up thinking that, as a girl, I had to be smart or pretty. They couldn't possibly exist within the same human being.

I grew up thinking that, as a girl, I could be right or I could be well-liked. I could be strong or I could be lovable. That if I wanted to date, I couldn't want a career. (And the GroupThinkers…

Wait, why is this about white women somehow appropriating the braid? I've been putting my hair into two braids since I first read that Laura Ingalls did that to her hair with ribbon.

How about the long history of intricate European hairstyles that traditionally involved braids? Celts and Gaels and the Dutch, oh my! The…

I think it's worse because it's essentially a bastardization of what is normally an act that requires the utmost trust, love, and intimacy. But given that virginity is socially constructed as the utmost virtue for women, it's possible that there's a component of rape's "badness" that feeds off of that societal…

The idea that penises aren't dangerous or can't hurt you IS pleasing. But it's pleasing in a sort of "world peace sounds nice!" sort of impossible way. And while advertising and the tie of the penis to a man's sense of worth and masculinity should probably stop, I feel like we should also take a second to admit…

Umm... you do realize that giving birth is in many ways an invasive medical procedure, right? And that it is of higher risk to the individual than a medical or surgical abortion?

Jesus, what is it with al the "he was raped" comments? The dude was not raped, nor did he have sex when he was eight. He's a lying piece of shit who brags about how great he is...CONSTANTLY. I seriously doubt he was some great stud at 8. That alone should tell you this story is total bullshit. The dude was probably…

Oh, for fuck's sake! I am so fucking sick of this bullshit.

Is it blasphemy on here to think that Beyonce is generally just boring pop? That isn't to say all pop is boring, just that she doesn't really have that many stand out songs.

Frank's dead and Joe hasn't worked in two decades.

I remember being flabbergasted when other women also thought it was perfectly okay to say you would beat up a woman if she said something offensive. The only person who agreed with me was my best friend at the time. EVERYONE else I knew thought I was nuts to be upset.

I was too young to remember that incident, but I saw it on Wiki and I was incredibly enraged at the response. I don't even know who Joe Pesci is, but now the one thing I know about him is that he is an asshole. Same goes for Sinatra.

Funny story: Remember when Sinead ripped up the picture of the Pope? It was because she was protesting the long history of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the Church hierarchy's commitment to protecting pedophile priests. Boy did she ever turn out to be right.

So when Carly Rae Jepsen and Zooey Deschanel dress kinda demurely, they're infantilizing themselves and therefore Part Of The Problem, but when Miley and Rihanna get nearly-naked, they're objectifying themselves and also Part Of The Problem.

Sinead was in a Magdalene house? I'm not saying this to sound trite, but that really does explain a lot and shed light on her beef with the RC church. I mean those places were basically hell on earth, and I can only imagine the emotional scars from being sent there at such a young age/vulnerable time. I feel…

Sinead O'Connor is not a member of the lucky sperm club. Her parents had an ugly divorce. She was abused by her mother. After shoplifting as a teen, she wound up in a Magdalene Asylum. Sinead got to where she is because of talent. That her talent is interwoven with mental illness makes her success even more striking.

She didn't inject herself into this for no reason. The open letter was in direct response to Miley's claim that she was paying homage to Nothing Compares 2 U with the Wrecking Ball video.

Did I miss something? Where are her pants?

Yeah I wasn't a fan of the "behaving like a prostitute" bit, but I'm still with Sinead overall. Making fun of mental illness is such an asshole thing to do.

And close on the heels of Amanda Bynes, we have Miley Cyrus.

Good job, Miley. Nothing funnier than mocking a bipolar person in the midst of a crisis! Of all the stupid things you've done, you've finally truly done something that no one can defend.