star trek
comedy
Internet bro thinks he's a comedian, says something dumb, gets indignant when people react to it. Then Patton Oswalt, a comedian I adore, respect, and procured my first fake ID to see perform, retweeted him.
being fat in the world
You are literally unprepared for this jelly.
racism
Lucy Liu is perfectly happy naming, and talking about, the elephant in the room: racism is a problem in Hollywood.
wikipedia
My first reaction to this was “My stars! I am offended! I shall retweet this to remind myself to read it later and prepare to flame with righteous outrage!”
women
When I hear other women say they can’t stand women, it makes me sad because what they’re really saying is that they can’t stand parts of themselves.
racism
I am seriously regretting that I didn't at least tell these folks to lower their voices. Their sizeist, racist, classist, awful people voices.
scandal
In our world, the only right way for a woman to deal with uncomfortable, lewd behavior is to “shut up and ignore it.”
gdc
Video games are changing, and more women are playing them. Whether you like it or not.
Lesley in

Mar 28, 2013 at 11:00am | 116 comments

directors
You could point to the male dominated industry, glass ceiling, misogyny, etc., but really, I wonder if some of us are prematurely discounting ourselves?
Louise Hung in

Mar 27, 2013 at 5:00pm | 58 comments

sexism
teen pregnancy
First of all, this is a campaign designed to make people feel bad.
the onion
feminism
When people can’t even engage respectfully with a woman saying she’s harmed by something people in her environment are doing, it’s kind of impossible to hope for any meaningful change.
calling yourself a woman
Ever since I turned 20 or so, I started making a conscious effort to try to call my lady-identifying peers "women" instead of "girls" when talking about them in the third person. It's had a weird effect on the way I think of them.
marriage
Women aren’t sad or pathetic for not single-handedly disavowing and dismantling an ever-growing consumer culture that feeds on and magnifies every possible human insecurity.
education
Telling women they need smaller bazongas if they want to avoid bullying is feeding into a larger and really gross culture about women and bodies.
comics
Can we still be friends if I admit I've never read the Arthur Conan Doyle versions of "Sherlock Holmes?"
racism
For those just tuning in, yes, it is offensive to compare a woman to a piece of meat, or to meat in general.
s.e. smith in

Jan 17, 2013 at 3:00pm | 44 comments

sexism
It's can be easy to laugh off overtly sexist comments uttered by hateful and downright stupid strangers, but what about when somebody you like, even love, says something only vaguely sexist?
Louise Hung in

Jan 14, 2013 at 4:00pm | 104 comments

gender
Should I have said more? Less? Am I overthinking it? What do other parents think?
Anonymous in

Jan 11, 2013 at 4:00pm | 82 comments

women in the workplace
Men are never asked if they’re choosing “briefcase over baby,” and no one ever asks why it is that men work so hard to achieve high ranks in their workplaces.