What the fuck? There is a COLOSSAL gap between expressing anti-choice views online, regardless of whether you or I may disagree them, and bombing people. (posted to What We Missed )
A lot of these comments are making me very, very angry. So somebody's anti-choice and you disagree with that. That's fine. But those are NOT grounds to say she isn't a feminist or, for heaven's sake, accuse her of shooting (posted to What We Missed )
To me, the belief that women are equal to men and should be treated as such and an agnosticism about when life begins are not, and should not be, mutually exclusive. One is, most would agree, a large part of (posted to What We Missed )
So, hypothetically speaking (before you accuse me of being a proto-bomber), what happens if somebody does believe, deep in her heart, that life begins at conception? Many religions and philosophical belief systems have this as a central tenet. (And I'm (posted to What We Missed )
I don't see the "real person/fictional person" divide. Fictional people, including Barbie, are representations of real people. So if you insult a fictional person, it's drawing upon the same ideas. (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)
