You are one of my favorite contributors, but for the love of God bangabong is not confronting or challenging you.

Here's the problem I have with porn. It sounds a lot like making women believe they're empowering themselves, and a lot of them convince themselves of that until they're out of the business. I don't understand what's empowering about earning money FOR men while having an image of their body being sold to DIFFERENT…

I don't think it's the place of sex ed to teach young men how to treat women. I think that lies in sociology, and gender constructs are seldom spoken about outside of academia, where the majority of porn stars reside.

I believe it goes for both sexes as well, don't worry. Both women and men suffer from putting masculine traits as a marker for the best of humanity. But I also believe that women suffer to a greater extent because to be masculine is to defy their gender role. They can never be the "best of humanity."

Oh God, you just vomited up so many questions it would take me years to try to answer. Porn is difficult for me. On one hand? I'm super pro-sex! I love sex, it is awesome. On the other hand? BDSM porn/porn that absolutely degrades women and promotes violence against them MAY be sexy to a consenting minority, but when…

It's okay, I'm not sure you explained yourself as much as you'd have like to either. I'll just take what I understood from your comment, and please correct me if I misinterpreted! I know how difficult it is to sum up a lifetime of thinking into a paragraph.

I'm not being sarcastic. I'd like you to tell me about them.

Tell me about these men that want women to respect them so much that they're willing to shit all over other men. Please, tell me.

How is it that radical feminist me can agree with fundamentalist Christians about the idea that pornography is harmful? Like, it makes me feel like I'm stupid for agreeing with them. But we know that porn culture is harmful to young women. We know that it mainly serves the male gaze. And then to go into the whole ATM,…

Same! It just happened I already had an Ira, and Ari was Ira backwards... and you know the rest. : )

Yeah! I very much don't want this to sound insulting, because I love and respect my best friends, but my flock of pups all have Jewish/Israeli/Hebrew names. Ari, Ira, Uzi. They are all Scottish Terriers, and they all look exactly like what their names mean. I just like how their names all essentially equate to "lion!…

I like this comment because I agree. A daughter would get a feminine name and then an overtly masculine to compensate. It would be GREAT.

Beretta? Really? I wish I could be like, "That is so dumb," because it IS really dumb. I don't like the violence of guns but... A. Beretta is a really pretty name. B. Goddamn I could totally name my kid after a type of gun. It is dumb, but it is badass. It's that mentality that I love about rednecks. After having said…

Wish I had a tumblr just to follow them, but I'm still stuck in the livejournal days. Dunno, livejournal always felt like discussion, tumblr just feels like... meme.

Whoa, the little girl from my favorite childhood movie grew up to be a pretty good feminist blogger? Holy shit. (I guess I have to add, the little girl that loved Matilda grew up to be a feminist law student...) I love Mara's writing!

If these women knew what they were doing to their sisters, (hell, they know what they're doing. They just don't understand the real reason why some people are poor, some people are wealthy, and some people have been exploited to hell and back). I... I'm drunk, at a loss for words. I just feel so ashamed that the…

I'm so down with all the Mormons I've ever known! The only ones that make me freak out are the ones with too much access to mass media. But when you meet a Mormon family, they are awesome.

Im curious, is it offensive for an atheist to be included in prayers because the one praying simply loves them as a brother or sister? Does it feel condescending always, or is it okay if it provides someone comfort to pray for your health and safety? I don't support trying to pray away things like atheism or…

As a Catholic, I'm so offended by my church more often than I'd like to be. There are so many more progressive Catholics than one might think, but they always get trampled over by horrible crap like this. Ill pray that this woman has a safe pregnancy and healthy child, as well as a job that is rightfully hers. I find…

She's gorgeous and obviously strong, but... There's never an excuse to harass someone. There IS no excuse to do that. What a creep! It's terrible that she's getting so much backlash for making a stalker accountable for his actions. Screw the haters, good for her. It's not like she drove to his house and murdered him.…