Can there be an option for women to play pro football without having to expose most of their skin? Because if that actually existed, I think I'd be less inclined to label this as a sexist caricature.

this made me lol pretty hard.

This is so accurate. I stem from the land of vast wilderness if rednecks and retired hippies. Represent!!

Meanwhile in florida, a black girl conducts a science experiment in the school and is expelled and criminally charged as an adult. So these kinds of records (or I should say, administrative responses) end up mattering for certain people. http://jezebel.com/this-is-what-h…

Thank you. While the rapes in India make front page news, Steubenville took over 6 months to garner any national attention. People don't want to see all of the suffering in their own backyards, so they outsource it to places that they can demonize as "other". A lack of national awareness of this horrific violence…

Definitely Australian though.

FUCK that guy. Holy smokes I don't even know you and I want to confront that douchebaggery on your behalf.

I regret watching this while stoned.

Yes, thank you. By the time I came to the abrupt end of the article I was wondering where the deconstruction was. Thesis of this post: "He said I should have worn a skirt for his pleasure. Should I have worn a skirt?" Alternatively, "Should I have catered to his pleasure even though I saw nothing wrong with it? "…

9. I get 9 hours of sleep a night. In bed by 10 pm and up by 7 am, with no alarm clock. (Related: I am also the most boring 25 year old on the planet probably)

Lindy West is a beautiful human being, and you are an ugly one. This is the sad sad irony that is your life.

The only thing I feel when reading this is a great sadness at the failure of this country's higher education.

Uhm, Catholic and Mormon feminism exists and is quite strong. How can you question if feminism can exist in a patriarchal culture? Patriarchal culture is the reason feminism is a thing.

No, it is an expression of femininity that in no way seeks to diminish or demean women, even if it is a caricature. The men who normally dress in drag are themselves marginalized by the dominant patriarchal culture for doing so. They are considered less than men for daring to dress like a women. I feel that if it was…

COTD

Hmm, okay. I think what you're defining as an "unspoken psychic need" is in my mind just a tactic of domination and control. However, I see your point. It's an interesting theory, considering a freudian perspective. However, I think I would respond that men like this position so much because it works in there favor-…

Read "The Hidden History of Women's Ordination" by Gary Macy if this topic still interests you. You're interpretation is interesting, but it vastly overlooks the history and theology of the Eucharist. The definition of ordination before the Gregorian reforms meant 'role' within the Church. This role of presiding over…

This is because of how highly we view the banking system of education. If you've never read Paulo Friere "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", it's a really important critique of how we structure education in such a way to limit critical thinking.

I know. I'm in seminary, and it came up in class today how terrible it is that the pope paying attention to the poor is noteworthy.

woohoo. Gary Macy for the win. A Hidden History of Women's Ordination is one of the best history books I've ever read.