I don’t know if it’s because I live in California and am in an interracial couple myself (and my fiance is himself half-white, half-Filipino), but interracial couples are still a big deal to some people? Weird. I’m just surprised that the Cheerios ad made me laugh.

I’ll send some e-mails. I hope it helps. No one should be treated like that over something so stupid.

I have never been raped, but I believe you, Alexei and Lisa both. You did not deserve what happened to you, no matter how you behaved or what you wore. There is no excuse to rape. There is no occasion when forcing another person into a sex act is warranted. And there should be no [...]

Arkansas sets a 12-week abortion ban, and South Dakota immediately tries to undercut that with a 6-week ban. What, is this a contest now?

It is very difficult to try and extend any empathy towards Sue Swayze for her comment, “I got pregnant vaginally…. Something else could come in my vagina for a medical test that wouldn’t be that intrusive to me. So I find that argument a little ridiculous.” But I shall try, because here clearly is a [...]

I think she was bigoted towards both the LGBTQ community AND special needs children, implying with one slur that it was a bad thing to be either. Gold medal for two-birds-with-one-stone insensitivity goes to Diana Medley!

I learned this very lesson as a high schooler–that “disabled” does not mean “nice”. I was not popular, and so one of the people I spent time with was a kid from my neighborhood who had been hit by a car when he was 8 or so. The accident left him moving and speaking in [...]

Robert–humor is a combination of taboo breaking and perceived harmlessness. For instance, it is taboo breaking to say something incredibly sexist, like “some girls rape easy.” If you perceive this ludicrous statement to be harmless, and therefore find it humorous, it is likely because your dignity/body is not directly threatened, the way a woman’s dignity/body [...]

The article by the Hasidic writer (“Sexuality on Sesame Street”) makes me want to scream. I am Jewish, although not terribly observant or learned. I had my Bat Mitzvah at a Reformed synagogue, and when I go to synagogue these days I go to a Reconstructionist one. Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews drive me nuts. I [...]

I’m disappointed by this video. It feels very superficial to me, but it is probably intended for more normal people than myself. I have an anxiety disorder, but it is managed at this point. I am medicated, and I “graduated” from therapy a few months ago, in mutual agreement with my wonderful therapist that I [...]

I read the original article, and I agree that it was problematic. But Slaughter seemed (1) genuinely interested in helping women, (2) aware of her own elite bias, and (3) made a good point, that for a multitude of psychological and physical reasons women are hard-pressed to “compete” at the level that men do in [...]

Maybe ideally, women shouldn’t feel so badly about themselves that they need positive affirmations about their own physical beauty from total strangers. But I think that is where we are as a culture right now. You can’t start feeling beautiful if you feel ugly by denying the entire beauty paradigm that made you feel ugly [...]

High five, Sam! The world needs more people like you.

In regards to Pat Robertson’s comments endorsing the beating of wives, I must admit that I am no longer surprised by the depths of the right’s hatred of women. I am no longer surprised at just how deep this rabbit hole of misogyny goes. Robertson spinning a whole tapestry of neurosis and transference for this [...]