Recent content by thirtiesgirl

No, I think you're right. I do this myself as an INFJ. In fact, it's something I've done since I was a young kid, come to quick conclusions about things. I think the issue for me is that there are so many young people on this forum who haven't experienced enough yet. I don't mean to be...

Yep, all me. I've gotten a lot of negative rep points for it, too. But thanks for the vote of confidence. I've handled it as best as I can, but I actually think it's time for me to leave. After a while I get tired of spending time in places that are so devoid of feminist thought.

Heh. You apparently haven't seen some of the threads where I've been posting.

Thanks for the friend request, but are you sure you want to be friends with the most hated person on the forums right now? ;)

Ah, so is this the reason why you closed the other thread? Because you got tired of me "stating and re-stating" my point of view and you thought it was a "heated debate going nowhere"? If it's not against forum rules, then why close the other thread? All it did was give other forum members...

In my case, I am doing something that has value for me and to the people I serve. I'm a high school counselor and I deal with too many kids who have low self-esteem and eating disorders because of constant body commentary by their friends, their family, internet forums like this one, and the...

Slant, honey, you're getting yourself in a tizzy. I've not once argued that women are not responsible for their actions. What I'm arguing is that it's not ok to comment on those actions and those choices. If you cut your hair, is it anyone else's business but yours how you feel about your...

Um, no they haven't. Have you lived in the world today? Discussing women's right to not have their bodies commented on by everyone else in society is not demanding "special treatment." It's demanding the same treatment that men experience on a much more frequent basis. To give you one...

I have to disagree with you. When you're discussing women's bodies and blaming women for the choices they make about their own bodies, it becomes a feminist issue. I work as a school counselor, which I've done for many years. I've seen first hand what the pressures of society and the popular...

The eating disorders begin because of the expectations put on women and young girls. I know you've got the critical thinking skills to understand that.

I found these statistics online. You can, too. An estimated 10 per cent of female college students suffer from a clinical or sub-clinical (borderline) eating disorder, of which over half suffer from bulimia nervosa. An estimated 1 in 100 American women...

And how does blaming them for making their own choice about their own bodies help them? Explain that one to me.

With a very young man's sense of what women "should" look like and that they should be blamed for the choices they make with their own bodies. Consider that it can become very difficult to take responsibility for your body if you're faced with constant blame for what you choose to do with it...