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Isha Aran
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Isha is a staff reporter who covers pop culture, representation in media, and your new faves.

How does squeezing a 10 pound human out a pin-sized hole make a person delicate? I call mega bullshit. Read more

To be fair to Mr. Erdogan on the mommy's magical feet thing, he's probably referring to his prophet's reported statements in the hadith that "paradise is at the feet of mothers" (also translated as "paradise is under a mother's feet"). (Ibn Majah, Sunan, hadith 2771; An-Nasa'i 3104.) That said, the coy glances and Read more

Up until mid-June 2014, I lived in Turkey. Half the country think the guy's an asshole. But, the other half just wants bread and good roads and schools. They tune out the rest, or they don't say anything because he arrests folks who disagree with him. This is how he gets re-elected every five years. Read more

This is what gets me about leaders who word-vomit this kind of blergh: ostensibly, they have/had a mother. Just once, I would love for one of them to stand up and be like, "Sweetie, I love you, but I brought you into this world and, if you keep talking shit like this, I will take you out of it." Read more

Nice to know ours isn't the only country being pushed back into the dark ages by right wingers. Read more

Dear Mr. Erdoğan. Your role in society is to shut up and let the actual, mature adults do the talking. Read more

Exactly. Women have been doing hard physical work forever. Rich entitled dipshits like this guy who can afford to lock up his women forget both history and current reality — because if you go into Turkish villages, you'll still find women breaking their back at physical labor. Read more

The idea of kissing someone's feet is so gross to me that its my biggest take away from this article. The rest of this tomfoolery isn't worth my time and thoughts. Read more

I see as we return to conservatism on an international scale, this also means a return to strange oedipal complexes and general fucknuttery on a grand scale, but with nuclear weapons. Anyone for restarting civilization offplanet? There has got to be a nice one, local, with a good school system and room for a pony. Read more

I *knew* it. I'm just a lawyer, board member of a non-profit, wife, daughter and friend. I have no role in society. Thanks for clearing that up Recep. Read more

Soil digging is your go to reference? Really? That isn't even that hard. Doesn't he know women have literally been digging soil since the beginning of time? I thought soil digging was the women's work, in fact. Read more

What the ever loving fuck? My grandmother was a war hero, a mother and a feminist. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can bow down and worship at her feet because she was 1000 times a better woman then he'll ever be a man. Read more

Until they could afford a mule, my grandma pulled the plow. I suppose that was against her delicate nature. Read more

Turkish president is a turkey. Read more

""You cannot tell them to go out and dig the soil." Read more

He recalled: "I would kiss my mother's feet because they smelled of paradise. She would glance coyly and cry sometimes. Read more