I think the explanation is that the Emperor's endorsement of her is close enough to adoption that she's sort of an honorary princess by the end of the movie. Mulan is my favorite. Who else kills 10,000 Huns and still gets the dude?

Oh I'm sorry I missed your point seeing as your comment made no mention of it, instead being completely about your assumption that anyone who disagreed that "this stuff matters" (No it doesn't, certainly not to everyone) with must have never gotten close to a woman. TL;DR Full of shit you are.

I say this with complete sincerity — perhaps you should think about doing some reading on women's experiences and feminism in general. It seems like you want to be a man who understands and stands with women (and this is admirable!), but you don't know how to do so in a way that will feel empathetic and supportive to…

You can't see the forest for the trees because it's so much a part of our day-t0-day lives. Try this: think of every movie, tv show, every song, every book you've ever read where the guy wants the girl, she says "No" and he just keeps coming, even if she's with someone else. You don't see that as "rape culture"…

0_o That's a lot of words to say "I don't believe you".

Glad you don't feel entitled to women's bodies. I think you're wrong about thinking most men feel like you do, however.

Yeah, it definitely sounds like you're failing at the empathy part of being an ally, which is really high on the list of things you need to not fail at to be an ally.

So you do not believe men ever come across as entitled, yet you write a comment that is seventeen paragraphs long about how women are wrong to share their experiences in a forum aimed at women, because you personally have not encountered the same experiences?

My 2 cents: It seems like you're really good at asking questions and listening logically, but not so much with listening empathetically in a way where you can truly understand others' experiences when they are counter to your own.

I see you have never had the experience of a stranger coming up to you to ask you out while you are doing your shopping, refuse to leave you alone after you politely say no, force you to take an alternate route home so you can make sure they aren't following you, and having them show up at your office the next day look…

If voting in favor of equal pay, complete and unrestricted access to reproductive health care, and stronger punishment and longer statutes of limitations for crimes against women doesn't make me an ally, well then shit.

It's not my definition of ally that's narrow, it's how you view your duty as one that is, because you clearly think you can turn it on and off for the things you believe are real regardless of what the person you claim to be supporting is telling you. Can you see now why any woman who may have experienced this didn't…

Some man does something horrible to some woman. There's an article, but nobody gets a direct statement from either party. I come to a site like this one, and there are hundreds of people making claims about the case. It sounds like he's guilty, but I'm not 100%. There are all sorts of things about how "this is why…

Given that you're disregarding anything unless you've personally experienced it, as one man to another (because clearly you'd never take the word of a woman) I'd say no, you are most certainly not "an ally."

Don't read the Gawker comments. Anyone trying to explain why women can be fearful when rejecting men is being gaslighted by the MRA brigade.

But think of men and their feefees!!

How much do you want to bet this article's being posted on some MRA sites with the word "friendzone" attached in some way?

Could you please explain the meaning behind posting this gif, bc right now it just looks like you are enthusiastically enjoying a story about a 16 year old being murdered.

What the ever-loving fuck?! Seriously, this is a clear-cut horrifying example of male fucking privilege and the way our society teaches boys they're fucking entitled to girls.