Friday evening roundup

Can we leave the nazis out of gun control discourse?

Trolls are not helpful.

When it comes down to it, most people intuitively support reproductive rights.

Wow, this--or, rather, the discussed column--is pretty offensive, but also really boring. I could only skim as fast as I could to get to the offending sentence, because I can't be bothered to give a $hit about this woman's not-quite mid-life crisis. I'm surprised that the linking article didn't ask this of Ms. Wurtzel: if women supported by their husbands are prostitutes, does the same go for men supported by their wives? I would also ask her how she defines "completely equal" and, more importantly, ask her where she gets off judging other people's relationship dynamics, but it's not worth it.

What remains unoffensive: Musburgergate. Could some of the offended turn their attention to the rampant objectification in supposedly legitimate sources? When I suggest that we pick our battles, it's not in the sense that little things don't matter--they emphatically do matter:

This means that even apparently minor expressions of sexism or jokes about rape— like those made by a former Steubenville student in a now infamous video— can have an outsized influence because they imply that degrading women is acceptable and that rape is a laughing matter. By implicitly conveying such warped social norms, these “micro-assaults” discourage bystanders from standing up because they suggest that they won’t be supported in their attempts at deterrence and may even become targets themselves because their views stand out from the crowd.

But this means--if we're going to be vigilant about the little things--we'd best not distract with things that don't matter. Get up in arms when it counts.

A letter to Carolyn where both sides are misguided.

Whatever you're smoking, you really should ask first, and not so that it comes off as a rhetorical question.

Brown eyes, on men, are seen as more trustworthy.

Don't bother with the trends and just eat fruit.