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• i agree with jesse. it definitely felt like he was being condescending. The trailer didn't give women a voice at all, it made me feel bad for women! The slideshow of the battered women also made me very angry, it
  (posted to Generation Misogyny)
• great! thanks miriam, i just spent a while watching a series of those mcarthur youtube videos and all the fellows are incredibly admirable. it gives me something to aspire to.
  (posted to 2009 McArthur fellows announced)
• Dartmouth has had a great option for almost 3 years now :)
  (posted to Princeton to add gender neutral campus housing option next year)
• Agh. I feel like i've missed something. I have been reading feministing for years now and i never noticed how left out the disabled community felt. I know it's probably because of my own privileged body. Having said that, i
  (posted to Follow Up on Disability Rights Dialogue )
• i don't think the point is to compare how many more women are pressured to be thin with the number of women who are already thin. the point is to embrace all body shapes.
  (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)

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• Okay, I apologize. That statement was in bad taste. I guess what I meant was that I feel like Jessica posted this video because she thought it was something fun that would make us happy. Young women with feminist intentions (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
• I'd say that anorexic girls also endured hell, but that seems to be changing No, take it from me: a lifelong, misery-inducing, treatable-but-not-curable mental illness that's stigmatized as the result of vanity or patriarchal brainwashing and tossed around as a (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
• Well, since all of my other comments seem to have been eaten, let me say this: nowhere in critiquing this song did anyone say that skinny women have it worse than fat women. No one even implied that. Just because (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
• Wow, thanks for linking to that post. (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
• I don't see this thread as "petty fights". It is an open and frank discussion of feminist issues. Why would you think feminists are a homogeneous group and all identified feminists think the same? The discussion comes from a vast (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)

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