In what league is this not true at the top clubs, though? Often the great young players, while promising/exciting, simply aren't as good yet as the ones who play ahead of them. Plenty of players from the academies at Real Madrid, Barcelona, etc. experience the same thing, because being a great young player often…

Gross.

Gross.

I think the point I was trying to make (poorly!) wasn’t so much about what you, as an individual, have asked people, but that the things that are normative in society can cloud people’s perceptions of/insightfulness about why people respond the way they do to those questions, or why they craft narratives that might…

I don’t think that mothers don’t work as hard as childfree women at all! I work with mothers (and want to be one some day) who are wonderful at their jobs and would never assume that mothers, as a demographic, don’t care about their careers or take their responsibilities seriously.

They should, but they don't. Asking people to do something that—at this point in time—DOES disproportionately inconvenience them, because it would be ideal if benefits for some people did translate to benefits for all people, isn't really fair.

I think it's a testament to how deeply ingrained our expectation that everyone should want children is, though, that people would take those flippant responses seriously, or hear them and think, "oh, this must be THE reason(s) why people don't want kids." I've heard plenty of people respond to this question that way,…

My favorite part is that people like him won't shut up about how they hate the actual people who live in New York and detest everything about its culture, but they won't stop using 9/11 (in which case they LOVE NY, just like the t-shirt!) to justify their toxic form of patriotism.

Oh, I totally understand what you're getting at in your second paragraph! I think it's absolutely true that sometimes we have to roll our eyes, suck it up and cater to the ignorant in order to get them to listen to/learn something. I don't know, though, that this is the solution in the context of higher education.

I went to a women's college (Barnard), and many of the women's studies courses there were very much "gender studies" classes. I think some schools' traditional women's studies departments have even changed their names to reflect the broader scope of the curriculum, actually.

I think this comment misses that feminism isn't an "activity" or a hobby, like skiing. It's not just a thing that ladies are interested in/like talking about, it's an ideology with important and far-reaching implications and applications in day-to-day life for women.

The problem isn't that she can't feel how she wants about childbirth, it's that by stating that other people were wrong when they told her about childbirth, THEY don't have the same right she does.

It irks me that these same people often staunchly believe that none of the rest of us can judge/comprehend anything about parenting, yet refuse to think (instead of "you will never be fulfilled) that other people's lives might become fulfilling in ways that THEY can't comprehend if they don't have children. Like, they…

She seems to be simultaneously a) specifically detailing her own experience and b) lamenting that every generalization she heard about pregnancy/childbirth/etc. wasn't tailored to that specific experience.

To me it doesn't sound like you're there too much (I have a roommate whose GF is around about as much, and it's no big deal/also the best).

Disagree. Gawker should be what Gawker wants it to be. Nobody has an obligation to give both sides of stories/perspectives equal weight, especially when one set of perspectives is being mocked because it literally disenfranchises huge segments of the population.

The fact that it's "liberal" to find this insane and terrifying and worthy of mocking is basically one of the biggest problems with America, so I'll take it.

Also, not that Mark Ruffalo wasn't lovely (as always) in Foxcatcher, but who was high when they nominated him but not Channing Tatum?

I think you're confusing "women" with "stereotypical representations of teenage girls on television." Maybe work that out before you try any sort of relationship with a grown lady.

Like the "room" it made for this author, who is a feminist of faith?