My dad is a government contractor and this is EXACTLY what he said. He has had to go through so much to have and keep his security clearance, and there would be NO WAY that Trump would ever qualify for one if he was anything but the President Elect. It’s fucking terrifying to think about.

Bobby, I think the headline should be, Is Bradley Cooper’s ‘Girlfriend’ Pregnant?

Yes, but is she “Beyonce Pregnant?”

Her contract with Ronaldo was up (and none too soon, his eyebrows here driving her crazy), and Bradley’s people made a better offer.

If by “pregnant” you mean “carrying our Messiah in his immaculately conceived state” then, yes, she’s “pregnant”.

But I totally get that this piece wasn’t about just physical ugliness, but about a desire to project an aggressive absence of compliance with the bullshit status quo. Which is something I can get behind. And obviously, for women, noncompliance with the status quo does have a big visual/presentational aspect.

I worked at a business that was male dominated and I was harassed both verbally and physically. Finally, after having my nipple pinched and twisted (hard) I went to HR (I was old enough to know that HR didn’t give a shit about me—they were protecting the company at all costs). After being interrogated they brushed it…

I got called fat once when I weighed all of 100lbs. Oh, and a “slut” for not sleeping with someone. And they’re supposed to be the “logical” ones.

Have you noticed that catcalling and street harassment are often framed as an absolutely universal experience for all women? “If you’re alive and female this is the constant background static of your life”. I’ve had guys on the street yell at me twice, once was when I was a teenager and they were asking my friends…

Exactly. I get why my openly declared enemies are trying to trick me, but why are you doing, friend, ally, comrade? Stop trying to pretend there’s a safe place that labels you as “a good one.”

I missed that in this piece but is there no part of you that finds marriage and motherhood oppressive? I mean I love my husband and kid but I feel that marriage and motherhood challenge my feminism daily. I don’t feel like a bad feminist, I feel like a woman trying to create a meaningful life and to care for the…

This was powerful and eloquent and touched a nerve.

Whenever I read a frothy article that’s all ‘Here are the top ten things in women’s fashion that men hate’, I just want to do everything on the list as a reminder that I do not exist for anybody’s boner. It’s that level of pettiness that led to me cutting off all of my hair after a boyfriend told me he didn’t want me…

I never wore makeup but I’ve been experimenting with it lately. Always garish — blue lipstick, glitter eyes, stuff that is not “pretty” but like a poisonous snake that warns you away with bright colors. Screw them and their entitlement to how I should look.

And Michael, too. My college boyfriend reprimanded me for putting pantyliner wrappers in the garbage in his bathroom because his roommate would tease him for it. I was so humiliated. I didn’t occur to me then to be pissed at him and his stupid roommate. I feel sad for my younger self, and I’ll never stop being pissed…

I love this. I FUCKING LOVE THIS.

“Becoming ugly” is a gift if you can manage it. I get a lot of shit for it from the people who knew me when I was a very sweet, endlessly polite and appeasing 16 and seem to think that that’s who I still should be, but it’s worth it. I even get a little thrill of satisfaction when I say something harshly true or…

Madeleine Davies, always my favorite.

You’ve accurately described the day to day humiliation of living inside a woman’s body. The good men are still trying to force us to believe we’ll be ok, which feels like an even greater assault than those actively assaulting us.

Fuck Tom and all the Toms of the world.