I have family in Columbus, Indiana where residential streets have a mix of one-way and two-way streets. When I drive down there and someone parks the opposite direction on the two-way street, I always always panic thinking I’m going the wrong way on a one-way. It’s a terrible driving experience and anyone who parks…

Pulling through is Okay.  Parallel parking facing the wrong direction is NOT.  

I mean, maybe I could get behind it if we gave everyone a meaningful universal basic income (or everyone had really good career opportunities), Medicare for All, free college tuition, etc. Then we would know there is no economic coercion undercutting meaningful consent.

I like the messaging of, let’s let women decide what to do with their own bodies, but where do we draw lines? What if we legalized people selling their organs and it turned out that only poor people were doing it? Would we say, well, they made a decision about their own body so it must be okay? Or should we say, wait…

I wonder what would be a stance that people would accept (and would actually be good). I feel strongly that people who think we can just make selling and buying sell legal will somehow magically eradicate or have no problematic implications relating to the very real, horrendously harmful, almost-entirely-not-dealt-with…

Also, people who put winter coats in the overhead bin should be permanently banned from flying by the FAA.

You are correct. Anyone that just sticks it in the first available space KNOWING that their seat is behind it is a dick. There is not rule against doing so, but doesn’t mean they’re not a dick. They are even intentionally being a dick since they absolutely know they’ll be requiring someone else to back up the line…

The rule should be: You have to try to put your bag into the bin above your seat before you can try to put it anywhere else. If the bin above your seat is occupied, you can put your bag in another bin even if it isn’t above your seat. If the bin above your seat is occupied, you can try to make your stuff fit, but you…

For the longest time I was really ambivalent on the transgender issue. I mean, do whatever you want and live you own life you know?

“What happens to medical research or clinical drug trials when a dataset misgenders or omits thousands of people?” Is this an actual concern? Wouldn’t a woman born in a stereotypically male-labeled body want drugs that are, I dunno, designed for the characteristics of a stereotypically male-labeled body? 

Two things:

I get what you’re saying, and I think there’s a pretty big difference between deliberately de-centering white women’s experiences and going out of your way to invalidate white women’s experiences. If I’m being really honest, it seems like the author has some really good and important things to say, and also seems to…

Call me hyperbolic, but what happened was a commenter exodus because folks kept crying that Jez was too “white” for them. While this site has definitely struggled with incorporating diverse experiences and perspectives, their response was to do a 180 and perform their woqueness by shitting on white women repeatedly for…

“I honestly don’t care.”

Really?... Because she’s white she can’t be a feminist? Because she’s white she doesn’t know of the discrimination she would be dealt for having body hair. This is a perfectly innocent person bringing attention to something that all women probably face at some point, but you’re saying because she’s white shes not…

I’m not sure I consider this act brave, or even inherently feminist

You don’t even have to be slavic or greek. Some white women are just very hairy. I can’t even claim it’s because I’m slavic, mediterranean or jewish, I’m just hairy. People have even suggested I have pcos, as if a woman can’t just be hairy, there must be something wrong, some imbalance or malfunction. I haven’t worn a…

“If white women were oppressed, 53% of them wouldn’t have supported Trump.” That’s a valid point about white women. This article wasn’t.

As a woman with pcos who just happens to be white, fuck you. You do not have some moral authority on struggling with body hair or being tortured for it/by it. 

No one suggested that she was being extraordinarily brave, so why do we have to shit on everything? We can’t just take this for what it is without lambasting it for not doing enough for the brown community? They really do not HAVE to do anything with one other.