Right? I'm really grossed out by this, but when I need to walk down 8 flights of stairs to let the dogs out at 7 am, I may not be wearing Uggs, but a slightly more obvious North Face sleepingbag slipper. I wear them out before I change into heels, too. Never for fashion, though. At the same time, the ban on Uggs is…

There is something dishonest about her, but the whole entire "bad Taylor" only came after she married Russell. She was a huge advocate for violence against women because of her childhood. It sounds familiar for a victim to fall into a similar relationship, but if she advocated against it years ago, why wouldn't she…

You're right. The doctor's confirmed the black eye wasn't the result of plastic surgery, but of being hit in the head by a blunt force. I always believed Taylor. When she spoke about the domestic violence she suffered as a girl in S1, it was like, "Well damn, your relationship with Russell makes so much more sense…

Hahahahaha, I had one past boyfriend that thought he knew everything about the female anatomy. "Did you know the clitoris is the only body part specifically meant for pleasure?" "Derrrr, uh, yeah." "Let me find your G-Spot with my penis, it'll feel even better than a clitoral orgasm."

SO COOL. Thank you! Who is the woman (most responsible?) for i09? From my memory she had a female partner. I don't know why I care, I just know that a lot of i09 is more tolerable for a feminist consumer than other technology/science/s-f blogs.

I think a lot of Morrissey's last paragraph is being thrown out the window in regard to the comments in the post. I don't think she meant that Joan Rivers was ugly because she's older. She just meant that Rivers is self-aware that society doesn't see age as a positive attribute to a person. Maybe I'm wrong?

Yup, it's not exactly "funny" funny. I'm not saying she's a modern day Lenny Bruce or anything, but if you have studied women's and reproductive rights, you understand. It becomes the "uncomfortable but true" sort of funny.

You're not giving a fair chance to those that live by their religious texts. I can think of a HELL of a lot of Christians that have never read the Bible, and if I offered up Christ's quotes, they'd reject them as "liberal bullshit." I didn't mind you at first, but then someone made a post on livejournal.com/~sf_drama,…

I know what he meant, but he still said she wasn't making an "easy choice." At least he consented to the fact the his daughter would be making the choice. I'm not patting Santorum on the back for being a pig, I just hope he eats his words for admitting that it's a choice.

Didn't realize that question might be offensive, and I regret it. Whenever I ask a man or a woman that, it's just because I'm waiting to hear that I'm free (or not) to be interested in them in a romantic way.

Man, having to write a research paper about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe, and seeing the close ties it had to unsafe sex and unsafe abortions made me so upset to realize the massive fucking weird stigmas the Russian Orthodox Church has. People with AIDS don't get treatment if they're IV drug users, women…

HA. I stopped keeping up with American comics once I started going to college. Too expensive, and the Japanese ones are more justifiable for me to pirate. I'll read Echo (but probably with more of a critical eye than I ought to), thanks for the suggestion!

I'm really not a fan of Promethea, but thanks for everything else.

Weird, I thought V for Vendetta was with Vertigo.

Vertigo has done some great things regarding gender (Y, Neil Gaiman) but they've also done some really terrible shit (I'm eyeballing you, Alan Moore). Considering the best female-heroine driven comic they had (AIR) was canceled after a short run, this shit doesn't surprise me.

Beautiful response. The girl is obviously thoughtful and intelligent, and values respecting women. She just has no comprehension of the trans community. Your piece is wonderful because you treat her like an intelligent adult. It's not mean-spirited, you're obviously just trying to win her over to our side.

Thoughtful piece. I'm a fan of Dines and Jensen. They've created some wonderful and enlightening works and I love seeing them cited!

I want to give my father hugs for leaving Booz Allen in the late 90's. "I can't tell you why, I just backed up all of my emails and told them not to come to me when they finally got into trouble for corruption. I had two little girls and my wife, who left the company to raise both of you. I wasn't about to make her…

Is the accusation seriously that Playboy caters to women? Really?

Recovered (always recovering) from both, she's right.