This is a brave, moving, and powerful piece, and one that I can relate to. When I was an undergrad, I went through a 2 year period of disordered eating and compulsive exercising. All while being a proud feminist and sociology major that understand all that stuff about beauty being a social construction, etc etc [...]

While I agree with the main premise of Rosin, as well as what you say, I do think that this response by Lisa Wade over at SocImages has a good critique of the shortcomings of Rosin’s points…

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/08/27/a-response-to-rosins-ode-to-hook-up-culture/

SPOILERS—As much as I love that Gabby is the first woman of color to win this event, I have to admit, having watched it, I thought Komova got shanked. Gabby somehow scored 5 tenths higher on bars from the previous rounds (her execution looked roughly the same to me), and she somehow got the highest [...]

Gina, I see what you’re saying, and I totally get what may have confused you about my post. I believe the confusion was more writing style/error on my part, because for the most party I was specifically talking about transmen that were in the bar AND performing drag, but I know I did not write [...]

Jos, this is an excellent post, first off. Second (off? hahah) I want to explain outright my privilege of being white, cis, and hetero. Therefore, I’m not proclaiming expertise. However, I am going to share some simple observations having spent a small amount of time socializing and hanging out with gay/lesbian/gender-noncomforming/trans communities. ABout a year [...]