Flesh receptacles? As in, vessels to be filled with flesh? That's what you feel comfortable calling these five women?

I think the shock that some people are expressing is not necessarily synonymous with surprise. It's not new information. It's not a novel phenomenon. It's horribly, depressingly common, and all sentient Americans have a moral obligation to be aware of that. But it is shocking in the sense that it's appalling,…

To be fair, you don't often hear stories where it's THIS overt. Racism is alive and well everywhere, but it isn't this blatant everywhere.

For me, the shock factor comes in where he actually grabbed her. I know nasty people are going to say nasty things, but they usually stick to words when they're in public.

Would you prefer to return to the days when this behavior was normal and accepted everywhere?

See, I'm glad to see responses of shock. Because that tells me that the social contract is working; there are now places where this kind of behavior - in public, at least - not only is unacceptable, but has been unacceptable for so long that it's genuinely surprising to the denizens of those regions.

Yeah, apparently changes are made all the time. And I'm just reading the Wikipedia page right now, and it says:

I genuinely don't understand why license can't be taken here - The Vagina Monologues change fairly often. Are they literally not allowed to add a monologue that focuses on the transgendered experience?

Ha! It does look kinda like an iPod for your nethers, doesn't it? A missed opportunity for Apple! Just think how well the new iPhone would sell if it could check Twitter and get you off. Samsung would have a total fucking meltdown.

OMG, that's kind of beautiful. It looks like a vibrator designed by Apple. If my grandma saw that in my apartment, she'd totally assume it was part of some new speaker system for my iPod.

There is so much that is hateful and goddamn depressing about the age we live in, but one small bright spot is that you can now get sex toys that don't look as if they were designed by a grim-faced Soviet anatomist. Or Lisa Frank after getting high on peyote.

This is amazing. Why aren't you immediately writing me a cookbook of disgustingly awesome British food? Why?

And all the American cities except Pittsburgh have refused to speak to any British city, town, village, hamlet or even desolate, crumbling highland castle ruins for centuries because of The Chip Butty.

I'm just grateful that all of this is coming to light before Cosby dies. I live in the UK, and I still haven't gotten past the seething, bottomless rage of knowing that Jimmy Savile will never have to look his victims in the face, never have to hear their voices, never have to endure the loathing and contempt of…

She has (or had, rather) physical characteristics that are extremely distinctive and common to Sami people. Not indigenous Finns. Sami. That's the ethnicity that she identifies with. What's controversial about acknowledging that?

There is a very meaningful difference between having "a real discussion about the awful beauty standards men set for women" and "lamenting Zellweger's desperate choices". Can you truly not see that?

Who the hell is claiming that Renee Zellweger is some kind of feminist martyr? That is simply nonsense.

Bollocks. It's clear that you want to sneer at someone you think is weak and whose appearance is shameful. Jog on.

Some of that tackling is happening right here in the article that you're commenting on, both in other people's responses and in the piece itself. Here's Reese Witherspoon herself digging in to some of that misogyny again:

Renee Zellweger isn't letting down the sisterhood by changing the way she looks any more than a woman who loses a lot of weight, or gets lasik surgery because she doesn't like the way she looks in spectacles, or has a birthmark removed, or gets her teeth straightened, or any of a thousand other things that people do…