Um. I wouldn't be so mean about it but yeah, I agree with you about the big picture. Hilary Clinton and Michelle Obama are women to look up to.

Look, I get that working as a high end escort is different from hanging out on a street corner in terms of violence, abuse, pay rate. I looked at this woman's website and read what she had to say. Let's not kid ourselves, this author isn't writing the sequel to Being and Time, or positioning herself as the next Marina…

This is my problem with it. What about all the law abiding people who want gender reassignment but can;t afford it? It's elective surgery no matter which way you look at it.

The problem with cheating is that you get found out eventually. Always. Maybe not by the teacher of that class per se but the cheating attitude catches up with you at some point, it could be years down the line.

No you haven't. And this shaking hands thing isn't about cooties as much you would like it to be. Women also do not necessarily want to shake hands with strange men. You can try to convince yourself that you are superior or more socially evolved but that is only your ego and self-limiting normativity talking for you.

I'm sure the Duchess feels fine. Perhaps you feel stupid and worthless and useless. Probably you project that onto everyone else who comes a long. Look, many American woman seem to think they have the handle on feminism but you don't, so give it a rest. American women's experiences are not normative, the culture that…

This is a question of etiquette, not morality. You have confused the two.

Please don't travel abroad. You will embarrass yourself and your hosts.

the cutting edge of white middle class normativity.

Yeah, because America isn't full of Enlightenment deniers # sarcasm.

Bowing to someone instead of shaking their hand is on no way in the same league as talking down to a receptionist.

You're quoting from the Telegraph? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I too find Jezebel to be knee jerkingly xenophobic, especially problematic is the thoughtless first world feminism normativity that assumes it speaks all women everywhere.

I don;t think anybody's saying that there is no place for industrial agriculture. We're saying that it shouldn't be the default. Also, let's fact it, the problem of food shortage in the world is not that there is not enough food. The problem is that certain countries hog all the resources. Most Americans could stand…

THIS. The health effects of continual exposure to pesticides are HORRIBLE. Basically when you buy industrially farmed products they are cheaper because you are subsidizing your food budget with someone else's LIFE.

Your culture is not the only one on the planet. For example where I come from, people don't hug. I hate hugging. It's uncomfortable and inelegant, no to mention hokey. Yet I tolerate it from Americans in America. But quite often I decline and move away as quickly as I can. And that's after living here for 15 years.…

One point this discussion is missing a concern for the labor who work on farms that use industrial pesticides. I saw a documentary once about the health effects on workers in industrial farming. Horrible. Workers who had skin peeling off, respiratory disease, kidney failure at young age. And of course as soon as they…

I garden so I don't really buy organic vegetables outside of a few winter months. For me the main concern at the supermarket is animal welfare. It's not good for us to eat animals that are full of hormones and antibiotics, that have been genetically modified to grow larger whatevers etc etc. Not to mention the…

Nice.

The difference to me is how the chicken is treated during it's life. And whether it is pumped full of hormones and antibiotics.