That didn't help my cousin, who at the time was 16 - we were walking in downtown Brussels and she got cat-called left, right and centre, despite the fact that we were with her father... he apparently thought it was great :/

Took me less than a week in NYC before I completely stopped making eye contact with ANYONE on the street, EVER.

I have been literally chased down the street in Italy and Portugal. THAT was fucking scary. Foreign place, foreign language and being chased by multiple strange men. Fuck that noise.

Walking through Rome is sometimes like walking through a building site. Expect lots of catcalls and wolf-whistles.

Same for me in Paris. I couldn't get anywhere without being catcalled or followed or harassed in some way. Worse than anywhere I've ever experienced it.

Yup, because you're another man's woman, and they respect other men and the objects that they own.

*pusheen screaming "it's about ethics in journalism!!"*

*pusheen making racist comments*

And that's why people continue to dwell on Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu? None of the Gamergate stuff has remotely been about how AAA publishers interact with media outlets. The ethics claim is a fig leaf for 'aggrieved' gamers having an existential crisis.

And again i ask.... Where the eff is Sally Langston? What happened with the blown up church????

How do you know it's a lady?

It is Texas. She should have just said that her baby was fracking for milk.

Put this together with the article about a woman being harassed at a hospital for NOT breastfeeding, and you begin to wonder if we live in a world where all women are disrespected, or is it only mothers that are treated with contempt? Breastfeed or don't breastfeed -either way you will be reviled.

um yeah that scene was weird

ASTRID!! Oh, I am here for Astrid! And Mellie, of course.

This counts as roundabout Julie Andrews cosplay in my books, which makes it awesome. It's Matsu-Sotome as Shrek 2's Fairy Godmother. Photo by Pugoffka-sama.

I though I was coming here to post alternate superhero universe stuff, boy was I wrong.

Watching her take off the make-up, the wig, the eye leashes - I'm a middle-aged Black woman with a voracious appetite for tv dramas. I have never seen a scene like that before. The whole dismantling of the facade just resonated with me. So many women I know do all that, the hair especially. What Ms. Davis did was the…

Exactly! My sister said the same thing when we were watching it together. When she pulled off the wig she actually gasped. When I asked her why afterwards-she reminded me that rarely on a major network show would they show that. That they would just show her in her natural state-without any explanations or…

The way they set up that scene before she confronts her husband was just so amazing. She is presented all through the show as this pillar of glam fierceness (mainly because she is) but when she stripped everything bare and looked at him she totally owned it the moment. No makeup, No wig. Nothing. Just "I'm here and…