“You tell me”

I’m not an American so I might be wrong, but I’m sure I read somewhere that wearing the American flag as apparel is actually against the law/constitution? Which makes all the Flag themed clothing and merchandise (including but not limited to the scarf she bought from a street vendor and wore as a Hijab) illegal?

My point is more that I keep stuff that has multiple uses in my bag, so when I’m walking on my own through a car park at night, I can have my pen knife tucked up my sleeve/in a pocket/whatever BUT I don’t have one in my bag ‘just in case I get attacked’, it’s there anyway for more than one purpose. I think you missed…

As a woman, the idea of specifically dressing or accessorising to take sexual assault into account is abhorrent - we shouldn’t have to! That being said, it’s a foolish individual who allows themselves to get into vulnerable situations, regardless of gender, without having some form of precaution/back up. Personally,…

Toughest gun laws in the world? Nobody had guns? French police carry guns, UK police do not. If anywhere has even LESS ‘defensive guns’ it’s the UK. Guns are not the answer. People owning a gun and learning how to shoot doesn’t mean they have the skills and experience to react in the right way to a scenario they can’t…

Me too...

I spend a fuck-ton of money on M.A.C makeup and apply it with a trowel so as to HIDE my natural freckles... Why the ever-loving fuck would I want to draw on fake ones?

I’m not trying to salvage his statement or make his comments about transgender women acceptable, I’m just saying that as a concept: Returning the woman of the year award because it’s given to someone who doesn’t deserve it, and because there are better candidates, is a statement I agree with. I don’t agree with his…

I think that depends on perspective. His post is contradictory and he makes good points about whether a minor celebrity is more deserving of other heroic women. Personally, I think if his reasons for returning the award are because he feels a minor celebrity championing her transgender transition is more worthy of…

The ‘And Transgender Women’ is my own opinion. He points out the vast number of women worthy of the award but I believe there are other transgender women working quietly behind the scenes to support and champion other transgender individuals that deserve recognition far more than CJ.

Yeah I’m with you on that. Someone will play the Autistic spectrum card.

Pinkham’s law?

*Whispers* Me too.

Agreed. I think it is wrong to deny a Transgender person the right to be identified as the gender of their choosing by ignoring her change of name and referring to her as a man, but I agree that, in the face of (as he points out), a vast number of women (and transgender women) more deserving of such an award, it is a…

That is true, although why did Facebook choose the French flag and not Lebanon? Paris has eclipsed the fact that 41 people were killed in Beirut on the same day.

Which is exactly why I HAVEN’T participated in the ‘French flag overlay’ on my Facebook profile picture, or retweeted or shared or otherwise participated in click-bait stories doing the rounds on social media. I did participate in the minutes’ silence this morning though. I was moved to tears when I read that account…

No, you’re right, racists can’t be expected to put actual THOUGHT and LOGIC into their vitriol...

LOL But what about the Vegans? WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE VEGANS?!

I’m assuming (and this is paraphrasing since her post is somewhat illegible) that she is referring to a long-standing association with people of Afro-Caribbean lineage, or is possibly from the Caribbean herself, or has been associated with Caribbean community form the age of 5. Therefore she CAN’T be a racist because…