I've been on the pill for 5 years now and I am almost too scared to try anything else. But based on what some people are saying, I also have a question. Could hormonal birth control be contributing to my (posted to Birth Control Fatigue)
I don't understand how "even tho I have never done yoga with my family, I am just practicing my indigenous culture." Maybe I misunderstood. But just b/c you are of Indian descent doesn't make you practicing your indigenous culture, especially (posted to When Cultural Appropriation Goes Too Far.)
thank you so much for posting this. while I do think the abortion issue is a huge one, the things you pointed out are great and I am so glad that we you are able to look at the positives (posted to Good news in the health care bill)
First off, just to be a little nit-picky, I would say the issue that you cite is classism, not racism. Also, while this does not help the SAT/GRE world, in my profession (speech-language pathology, which I am in grad school (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
My biggest pet peeve is when people say something to the effect of "no MY problems are worse b/c of X." (For example: oh your dog died? well my aunt died so you should feel bad for me b/c that's (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
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)
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)
