“The female bod” didn't exactly make this one happen by itself. I hope everyone comes out of this reasonably healthy and well. Feminism shouldn't mean we have to applaud medically risky choices.

Because your future self is yelling back at you to not do it because it looks SO DUMB when growing out. It looks super cute when shaved but imagine that part of your head when it’s like 2-3 inches long once you’ve gotten sick of it.

Nothing funny about it but your assumptions when you have nothing to go on but my birth nationality.

Since you went to the trouble of doing your homework, I’ll add this: I’m a Venezuelan born of a mixed white/carib maternal line and a white/arawak/black paternal line. Can I please, oh, please, play with the other…

Yes! I’m an aesthetician and post lots of skin care reviews. One review was for a Irish Moore Mud Mask which is black- it’s mud. A white person suggested I use other color masks because it could be confused as black face. WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE. Because I am white I need to stop using colored masks on my skin care blog.…

That and “privilege.” I don’t know when it happened, but at some point spouting buzzwords replaced any exercise of critical thought. Honestly, there are time I have to avoid this site for weeks because reading through the comments makes me despair for the collective intelligence of humanity.

You do realize that “stick leg” is a far more obnoxious (and negative) formulation than “thick,” right?

Smarkiness aside, I do think it’s kind of sad that women feel the need to apologise for having an opinion on a feminist website. I don’t play that game. Too bad if you think that makes me a troll.

It’s a necessary preemptive measure on jezebel, if you’re white and you’re going to have an opinion on race issues it had better be as meek and timid as possible, stating clearly that you're aware of your whiteness and privilege and you're not just some white feminist.

So, main point aside, I don’t understand the logic behind, “I’m not a part of group X, so I’m unqualified to make any observations about them.” statement.

I mean, if this was taken to it’s logical conclusion, then we could protect every religious, political and bigoted group there is by simply stating that you don’t…

Blackface never meant “having a black face”, anyway. It means, “performing a gross racial caricature of black people”. Is she doing that? No. Is there any indication whatsoever that this was some kind of racist caricature? No. The manufactured outrage is fucking inane. Furthermore, getting het up about irrelevant shit…

I’m a POC. Calling that “blackface” is fucking absurd. But I can’t be arsed to spend Sunday arguing about it, so please, take my POC opinion card and express yourself. I’ll hold onto your white guilt while you do it.

“I’m white, so I shouldn’t even have an opinion on this” is retarded. Please stop it.

I'm white, but that doesn't look like blackface to me...?

Because if I have to acknowledge the likelihood that my parents had sex, it’s at least better to assume it was dutiful and joyless and only happened the once.

Now I feel a bit validated in my way of trying to lessen my working mom guilt by saying I enjoy my time with my kid now unlike when I did the SAHM thing.

I think it's probably fine and inoffensive to use they/them pronouns if people are so concerned they're misgendering a possible trans child. But it does seem like based on the comments around here regarding this all coming out around the time Brad Pitt mentioned an obsession with Peter Pan that things have been…

It's not gaslighting. No need to escalate like that.

I am aware of these possibilities. What I'm asking is, do we have reliable information to conclude that Shiloh is actually identifying as male and going by John long term? If we don't know for sure that it wasn't just a tomboy phase, it's pretty crappy to reassign the kid's identity via tabloid, just to satisfy the…

All the articles I could find were using a quote from 2008 about using the name John and I think it's irresponsible to make assumptions based on an interview when they were 2 years old. "She wants to be a boy" is an ambiguous statement in that it doesn't necessarily mean a child is trans. I've met trans kids and I've…

Has this actually been confirmed by Angelina or Brad, or is it just a rumor? And is this child maybe a bit young to be officially considered trans/queer/non-gender-confirming? Maybe she is, or maybe she's just going through a phase like a lot of kids do.

Do we have confirmation on that? I know it was said in an interview a few years ago that Shiloh was obsessed with Peter Pan and wanted to be called John but do we know if this is still the case?