@Meg: What is the sound of one hand typing?
@hortense:
Tiers of JOY, you guys! JOY. Like so:
Tiers of JOY, you guys! JOY. Like so:
@greengrey (raidersofthelostSTAR): FUCKING EXACTLY. If it was based only on criteria defined by others, transwomen and non-cisgendered women in general wouldn't be women either. There are plenty of assholes who call transwomen "things" too.
You know what you've done? You've objectified her! Quite literally.
I honestly can't believe you're defending yourself here for such a childish slur. Admittedly I can't believe I'm bothering to argue either. But I mean, my grandmother is anti-choice too, for example. Is she allowed call herself a woman? How about all the women who supported Palin - are they women?
Calling a woman a "thing" because you dislike her or her behaviour - that's nothing new. It's an age-old smear, perpetuated by the people who called Hillary Clinton a "robot" or a "monster", which says a lot more about the person using it than it does about the target.
@greengrey (raidersofthelostSTAR): So womanhood, or the right to be called a woman, is contingent on behaving as you see fit? Interesting.
Of course, I think that called any woman a "thing" is a fairly hateful thing to do, but I will still accept you as a woman because I am in a forgiving mood.
@Mrs. Stephen Fry: Where does she say that every single person in your generation feels devastated? She says "For many of us", and "If you were a child of the 80s and you loved Michael Jackson".
How careful does she have to be? Would you like an asterisk just for you?
How careful does she have to be? Would you like an asterisk just for you?
Jack Boor.
@morninggloria: Oh no, I didn't think that was mocking? I thought they were being sympathetic?
I'll go re-read, but I'm sure they're not such heartless bitches that they'd mock your lovely honest post. Seriously, I was sure it was sympathy, not criticism of any kind, pet.
@wilmawonker: She did.
@thesciencegirl: They are treated as props. Exactly.
@graciousplum: THERE'S NO ONE TO DONATE TO.
Aid agencies were forced out by Bashir's government when the ICC issued a warrent for his arrest. The rest of that quote up there was "So please contact the White House and say you need him to get the 16 aid agencies returned or the gap filled somehow."
I too doubt her hunger strike will be effective, but fucking educate yourself a little before you mouth off.
@goodgirlrevolution: I'm glad you said something, because my silent fuming was doing no one any good.
Omigod, this totally reminds me of one of her songs! Disturbia, maybe?
@Eleanor Savage (Shannon): According to the Guardian, she's stopping after 21 days.
@hortense: You're probably thinking of Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit. That was Whoopi Goldberg, not Cameron Diaz.
In predicting that this line lasts no longer than 3 months, I think Kate Harding is underestimating teenagers' desire to fit in - in this case, by shopping at the same store as their peers.
Maybe there are better clothes at Target or wherever, but mostly, teenager girls - whatever their size - just want to be able to go shopping with their friends and not stand in shops unable to even browse through the clothes around them, you know?
Maybe there are better clothes at Target or wherever, but mostly, teenager girls - whatever their size - just want to be able to go shopping with their friends and not stand in shops unable to even browse through the clothes around them, you know?
@PilgrimSoul: And suddenly I know what it feels like to actually hate a celebrity - or "celebrity" - with the fire of a thousand nuns. Holy fuckbags, they are such wastes of space and air and peroxide.
I know nothing about Maude or this TIME writer, so I just want to know if I'm misinterpreting the last line of this or if it strikes anyone else as being a little...snide, maybe?
"...she created a legendary character in her own right by showing Maude wrestling with serious issues for a TV sitcom-alcoholism, drug abuse, and famously in 1972, abortion, as her character decided to terminate a pregnancy late in her 40s. (Even today, it's extremely rare for a TV female lead to make that choice.) What endeared Maude to us, beyond her quick wit, was the fact that she was a person with doubts, not just a paragon of liberal rectitude."
I mean, why the use of "liberal"? Is he praising the character for having doubts about her abortion?
@haguenite: Oh. My. God.
WOW.
Click through to the source, it's not just an intern type set-up:
"The problem is it has been accused of basically being ran as a sweatshop by Truskolaski, who used young students to write content for the magazine, doing it all of it online without a newsroom or even, it seems, physical offices. The editor in chief for the first issue was apparently a 19 year old communications student who did the work over instant messenging and was fired a few days before the issue hit the newsstands for being "a little young." It seems that most of the other contributors were either underpaid, or not paid, or paid late and/or paid much less than what was initially agreed."
"The problem is it has been accused of basically being ran as a sweatshop by Truskolaski, who used young students to write content for the magazine, doing it all of it online without a newsroom or even, it seems, physical offices. The editor in chief for the first issue was apparently a 19 year old communications student who did the work over instant messenging and was fired a few days before the issue hit the newsstands for being "a little young." It seems that most of the other contributors were either underpaid, or not paid, or paid late and/or paid much less than what was initially agreed."
I just love diagnosing people with pathological disorders by reading their Wikipedia pages. After all, those pages are written by people who have examined them, not by random member of the public.
