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@Neon.Wonder: Um, I suppose, if you can afford to get good haircuts, nice makeup, and nice clothes. Oh, and have enough leisure time to shop for and take advantage of them. But not really. Read more

@Blitzgal: Yeah, that's interesting, and I think it goes back to what SarahMC was saying about how rape is used as a weapon against women as a whole. In other words, it's being used to subjugate a certain population in these instances, but is also used to subjugate women worldwide. Read more

@J.D.Regent: Exactly. And I haven't seen the film, but I think that's what she's trying to say—that while our experiences are different, we still have similar reactions to them. And I can also understand the reluctance to accept a white Western woman making comparisons about her experiences to women in Congo who Read more

Ugh. I honestly haven't read anything of his because everything I've heard about him was gross. This is worse, though. Read more

@Smackdown: I agree with you, actually, and I hope that she is careful. But I think that the NYT review was still shitty and dismissive of her experiences. Read more

@hortense: "Ms. Jackson leaves the phrase dangling there to suggest that the anguishes of sexual violence are experienced universally and that all shame is essentially the same shame." Read more

@and Begorrah: Really? I don't find it that adorable, but the term is hilarious to me. It's weird, because I'm really not that hairy, but there's this little tuft of hair... Read more

@tscheese: Ha! My husband and I were joking about this kind of thing the other day. I've decided I'm going to shave my pubic hair into shapes and dye it for various holidays. I was going to do an American flag for Memorial Day, but Mother's Day is coming up, so I thought I'd do a portrait of my mom. Read more

Uh, what? I mean, I have butt crack hair and I get a bunny tail, but there's no fucking way it's long enough to be braided!!! Do humans grow pubic hair that long??? Read more