Lindy West's saved articles

" (Also, on behalf of frumpy Americans everywhere, I have to say: MY CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME.)"
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That thing is not even cute. Would not bang. Read more

This. This is why I am working so damn hard to become a midwife. I want women to face birth with hope, not fear. Read more

I was actually breathless for a moment. Wow. Read more

I really like Charlotte Church. This just confirms my like for her. Read more

That ad went hard as fuck. I love it. Very impactful. Read more

Just an excuse to post this (from "The Groove Tube") ...

This is great! And your dishes are so fantastic! Years ago we started doing the same thing, and about ten people showed up with "delectable" dishes. A few months later, 20 people showed. Then 40. Now this "Mid Century Supper Club Potluck" is so huge — over 100 people — that we've had to rent a space for it! We… Read more

You're forgetting the worst part of Troy: he can't bring himself to say "fuck" when singing the Violent Femmes. Was his grandma in the crowd?

And it is not enough for women to be presented more frequently as the sex bomb and minority men to be represented more frequently as dangerous, perpetrators of violence. We need equitable representation. When women and minority men are seen just as often in positions of non-illicit power THEN we can call it even. Read more

(EEEI! Lindy West replied to my post! OK. Be cool, me.) Read more

True to his band's name, the guy from Korn has a way of reappearing after you'd forgotten all about him. Read more

Let's just assume for the sake of argument that Lindy is shoehorning this into her "pet topic:" why is she disallowed to discuss discrimination against her when it is included in a topic? Read more

What exactly is supposedly "open for discussion" here? An author's ability to pick a topic of her choice? She has that ability. You don't get a say in that. Read more

Yeah! It's almost like things are related to each other, and Jezebel isn't a science reporting service, and sometimes authors take a new piece of information and write an article around it. Read more

How unfortunate for you! Heaven forfend you have been coerced into reading this article! Except no one made you read anything and if you have a problem with Lindy talking about fatphobia, that's not really her problem. Read more

Quick question: This study is being covered all over the world, obviously. Lindy decided to write about it from this angle. So whether she's shoehorning the issue in or not (hint: she's not), what the fuck does it matter to you? Fat-shaming is a very real thing that doesn't happen in many other analogous situations. Read more

"Obesity" is in the headline of the original article. If you think I'm "shoehorning" my pet issue in here, blame the international media for framing it that way: Read more

While I'm avid about your subject matter, both as a person and as someone who actually studied economics in college, I have nothing to add to the conversation other than this: Lindy West, you hemorrhage brilliance, compassion, wit and wisdom like it's a bodily function. If there was any justice in the world, you would… Read more

Lindy, you're probably not going to notice yet another message of approval, but, man, Lindy, you killed it again. What a humanistic, earnest and uncynical defense of love — from a "raging liberal" no less, not from "dignity"-preaching asshole conservatives. It's the freaking conservatives, who are always eating shit… Read more