I came of age in the LGTB community of a redneck city during the late 80s and early 90s and I thought Leto's performance was absolutely convincing. He was messy and campy and superficial and damaged in all of the ways that many trans women are —and were—in the the real world outside of the vain wishes of identity…

2-8% is the lower boundary, derived from rape reports to police that can be determined to be definitely false (or definitely unfounded) to nearly a criminal court standard. I could just as easily flip that around and say that "only" 6% of rape accusations are true, because that is the percentage of reports that…

I am having an empowerment overdose. This word has been used so frequently in so many contexts that it has lost all meaning. At its beginnings, "empowerment" was a word that used to be associated with a structural view of social problems and that encouraged large scale actions to promote social change. Self-esteem is…

This is slightly off topic, but I think it's worth mentioning that some of these are not companies, they are brands. Pantene and Gillette are brands owned by P&G; Dove, Simple Skincare, and Axe are brands owned by Unilever. L'Oreal, Estee Lauder, and Revlon are all brands and a companies. L'Oreal owns Lancome,…

correction: "4 year old's Mom makes celebrity gowns out of paper"

So I assume Captain Planet appeared ten seconds later?

I'm really good at something so obviously anybody who isn't good at that thing is totally worthless!

You are in a different thread bashing Brazil. Shut the fuck up you xenophobic motherfucker.

The notion that only parents help raise children is endemic to industrial middle-class society. The notion that older siblings and extended family help raise children is not terribly uncommon outside of our Western industrial paradigm.

Even the God stuff was mostly good. I'm an atheist, but if I translate it out of religionspeak, I get messages like:

The Beyonce Transitive Rule of Feminist Theory has just been born.

I admit I didn't read it in depth — I can only take so much talk about God — but I thought this was a nice piece? As strongly as I disagree with her on religion and birth control, I agree:

So now we make fun of whatever comes out of the mouths of people who follow evangelizing religions, even if it has nothing to do with evangelizing? Great. That seems really reasonable and respectful.

Body shaming: only ok when it's someone whose beliefs you don't agree with. Sorry, Duggar!

This is so unbelievably, unnecessarily rude. I don't believe in God, either, but that doesn't make it okay to imply that other people are mindless sheep because they do.

Why, Jezebel? Seriously, fuck you. Disagree with her all you want, I certainly do, but for a site that claims to support body positivity you are a bunch of hypocrites. Good for her for feeling good about herself. This article just makes you look petty and sad, which is happening more and more often on here.

She might have some more than a little crazy opinions, but you know what? Good for her. She loves and is comfortable in her body. That's fantastic. Everyone who wants to snark at her for being happy with herself - regardless of how often she invokes God as the reason - should take a step back and examine their own…

What a disgusting thing to say about a human being.

Exactly, WTF is the point of this article? Let her be.