The boomers raised and taught the gen-Xers. The gen-Xers have taught the gen-Ys. They all make the same arguments that it's up to women to end systemic sexism. Ignorance doesn't die out it gets passed on.

Dear god our precious precious binary gender roles! So inherent to human nature they must be enforced at all costs.

Like they could survive without wifi and cheetos.

I swear to god, even my boyfriend has pointed this, the men on Naked and Afraid are always the ones whining. The women always seem to have a higher mental tolerance.

Eh, I can see how it might fit right in with the whole ridiculous MRA ethos.

A) What do they think pre-agricultural women did all day? Their nails?

The nuanced idea of media critique escapes you, doesn't it?

You can't get a show like this made for women. I know a fair amount about the industry and execs and networks do not want to put women in these roles, nor do they want to finance shows in which women are survivalists. The view is that the market they're trying to attract is men, and men would rather watch men do these…

Have you ever watched anything on television, and is this your first encounter with the internet? The #1 message that's pumped into us from an early age is that unlimited sexual opportunity is a fringe benefit of being successful on other people's terms. It begins in high school when we master the art of throwing a…

Which is a great example of why there needs to be a greater standard of gender equality among all professions. The reason at lot of these men get away with this crap is because the only people policing them or judging them are men just like them. If people who don't write this off as "boys will be boys" behavior…

Shit, they don't even have to be that rich, and that powerful, and it's because much of the time they can do whatever they want.

Because a lot of the time they DO get away with it. Ordinary dudes get away with it. Rich and powerful? You're bullet proof.

Yes, clearly the problem lies with the models, not with the creepy photographer who sexually assaults them.

Who's surprised, though? I'm not. Not at all.

As DASDASDAS said: Perm. Mixed with dingy old hair salon, nail polish remover, usually some sort of "Vanilla Honey Cinnamon Fairy Fart" scent and sadness.

I forgot about that book until just now. I had seriously blocked it out of my brain since high school.

"Struggle struggle struggle then some Lion come from out of nowhere and saves the day."

On The Alchemist: "it will be a big hit I'm sure with emotionally unstable spiritualists"

I mean that makes sense ... but then if the show doesn't fit the ending you had in mind, just throw out the original ending. Don't force a long-running show into an ending that no longer works for it.

I suspect it shatters the fantasy for many of them. The girl that they're watching on their computers doesn't just live on the screen, she's an actual living, breathing person who is at their school... and she still won't fuck them in real life.