I love this gif and plan on using it at least once a day from now on, THANKS. (related: last paragraph of this http://jezebel.com/5932938/now-you-can-superimpose-your-little-girls-face-onto-a-disney-princess-for-100-bucks) Read more

my email address and phone number. Read more

A few years ago, a AAA mechanic added me on Facebook after looking up my contact info through the company and then texted me at 2 am: "Hey, it's Matt from AAA, I added you on Facebook." So creepy. Read more

YOU GUYS. They are just two different statistics from the same study. I've bolded it for those who have issues reading :) Read more

I feel like I've covered this at length in the other comments, but when I wrote the piece I decided to quote and link to another writer who had hit the nail on the head since I was exploring the word from my own POV. Honestly, this is a blog post, not a thesis — unfortunately, when you write about multiple issues a… Read more

It's not that I felt speaking about the issue wouldn't have been appropriate as much as I felt like it had been broached by many other people more productively and eloquently than it would've sounded coming from me. I was more interested in reading about it than writing about it. Read more

I definitely see how it appears that way. That wasn't my intention; as I've said in some of the other comments, I saw the Slate post on etymology, thought about all of the men who have tried to silence me by calling me "cunt," and wrote the post from that perspective. I thought that since so many other people had… Read more

There are so many pressing issues to cover that I try and pick the ones I'm personally invested in and know the most about; that's why I write often about reproductive rights, rape culture on college campuses, etc. I didn't see Beasts of the Southern Wild, I don't write about comedy, and — most importantly — I'm not… Read more

Another point, after thinking about this more: yes, of course I would write about it, and actually, I think where I got into trouble with this piece was making it more about myself (a white girl). I was thinking about all of the men who call me "cunt" on the regular and how I feel more powerful when I realize why they… Read more

What I meant to say was let's look at the big picture of (quoting myself) "fighting against a system that denigrates women for wanting to be treated as equals." I meant I wanted to look at the big picture that DEFINITELY includes the hypersexualization of black girls, etc., rather than this word itself, which I don't… Read more

I definitely get that, and see why that would be frustrating for readers who wanted to focus on what happened with Quvenzhane rather than have it be a side note to a larger discussion about semantics. At the time, I had read so much about it that I felt it had been addressed by people who were more qualified to tackle… Read more

To be clear: I was not in ANY WAY defending the Onion tweet. Many people have written extremely eloquently about why that was problematic; I quoted Roxane Gay above. I saw the Slate post on etymology and felt inspired to write about all of the men who have called me "cunt" and how I think that relates to female… Read more

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Uh, did you read my last paragraph? We're on the same page. Read before you comment, please! Read more

RIGHT!? (sorry not very eloquent I just like this comment) Read more

That's exactly what I said in my piece, the fact that it's "boring" doesn't reflect negatively on the reporters at all but on the complexity of the issue Read more

can I come? Read more

How is it self-deprecating though? He makes fun of the way he looks a bit but he's mostly saying that he's a super awesome talented nice guy that one day is going to make it big and then all the bitchy women in LA (like, literally all of them, except for fat people in the Valley and Persians? Or I guess he likes the… Read more

I'm watching this right now and I just have to say, I'm going to be pissed if Carrie doesn't lose her virginity in Seth Bateman's smelly rec room on the ping pong table. Read more

I linked to it in the piece! http://www.yelp.com/biz/cha-cha-cha-san-francisco Read more