This is a very comforting article to read - thanks for writing it. As a 33-year old woman in a loving and committed partnership, parenting has been on my mind frequently over the last few years. While I’ve never felt drawn to have children, I’ve considered it with a much more open mind as of late and can see the…

Yeah, that’s always been a head-scratcher for me too. There are absolutely things to critique about Swift, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and other white feminist-leaning pop stars*, but why in the world is anyone holding them up as feminist icons? Swift has never been to college; Perry has probably never heard the term…

thank you. I don’t think pop stars are the best representatives. I’m not saying they can’t be, but if your whole list consists solely of them, then it says something about the person compiling it in the first place.

I liked S2 but I was uncomfortable with it too. On one hand, it’s great that Aziz shined a light on bad behavior, even if he had to do it through his own lens where Dev was more worried about being found complicit than anything.

Ok, but seriously by the middle of the second season, his obsession with his Italian pixie love interest was just boring and creepy. The only thing that set her apart from the many, many other women he portrayed as interested in dating him was...she was very pretty. Like, VERY pretty, “I’m casting you in the movie…

Lena Dunham is not a feminist. She publically accused a WOC of making a false rape allegation because the perp was her pal. That is not a feminist act, and frankly her other activism doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either. It can be seen in how Taylor Swift “became” a feminist following talks with Dunham, which basically…

This white woman does not disagree with the overall point here, but I would like to say that I reject Lena Dunham, Taylor Swift, Amy Schumer and Miley as my feminist representatives....

wow. What a trash way to view life and women in general.

And in much the same way that scientists have given us plenty of ways to reduce our negative effects on the environment yet have been largely ignored black and brown women have been explicitly ignored and disparaged in regards to solutions for inequality

This situation is starting to become very similar to how police and RCMP in Vancouver mishandled the Robert Pickton case for years and years. It’s good something has been done now, but it certainly took way too long.

Infuriating. Reminds me of when the Milwaukee police actually handed a young, minority victim of Dahmer’s back to him when he had managed to escape. Dahmer, being white, was able to convince the cops that the hysterical, bleeding boy and he had just had a lovers quarrel.

I get what you’re saying, especially in regards to Nikki. One of the (numerous) reasons I will never run for office is my parent.

I do understand what you’re saying and thoroughly appreciate it. I guess I can understand SJP’s feelings in away because of a personal experience I had when I studied abroad in Spain for a summer. There were a group of us who did everything together - studied, roomed, traveled the country. I was really happy to have…

I don’t know ... I “might” be down just to see Sharon Stone play Samantha.

I prefer to give women like this my attention.

not everyone can make that choice, brah

Worse, it’s the narcissist’s “thoughts and prayers”, because it implies that you can be healed and helped by an image of that person’s pet. Who needs real solutions, have you seen my cute dog??

It’s basically the “thoughts and prayers” of the internet commentariat.

I’m obviously in the minority but I find the trend of posting pictures of kittens and puppies in response to bad news to be incredibly belittling and trivializing. A lot of these news items have an immediate and direct impact on my life, and to be honest seeing pictures of some dude’s fucking dog as the top comment…

Ohhh, well if it worked for you then it must be true! :)