This isn’t about being vapid, nor did OP imply that it was...this is about the bombardment of airbrushed images and young girls and women trying to live up to unreal expectations. These are REAL pressures.

Oh, here it comes. The “you must like all women and their choices” argument. No, I don’t. I didn’t say they shouldn’t have the right or that they should be stoned to death. But I don’t have to agree or like what they do.

Yes, honestly so much of the current feminism just seems like rebranded patriarchy to me...  

What’s with all this misinformation about #metoo? It did not start as, hasn’t continued as, and currently is not about sexual harassment in the workplace. It’s about survivors speaking out to “show the magnitude of the problem” and to support each other with empathy.

I had a similar situation with my brother, but I never blocked it out. I remember it almost every day, and it makes me sick. I still wear the mask. I don’t know how not to. I’m not sure just how much it affects me; what choices are because of my personality, and what choices are because of what happened? I’m in my 40s…

And that’s bullshit anyway, that anger isn’t empowerment. Anger is super empowering for people (mainly women) who have been told their whole lives by society, parents, friends, that they’re not allowed to get angry and that it’s not ladylike. Fuck that. Getting angry, allowing yourself to feel anger and allowing…

Im sorry people are jumping on you; you can feel sorry both for a victim and for the people he victimizes. You can think of the women he hurt because their hurt due to his trauma helps us understand the full scope of how terrible trauma and abuse is, since it doesn’t just hurt the person who experienced but so many…

I read the piece. One thing that stuck out to me in this piece was that it hits on what I think is a common theme in life and in entertainment: hurt men — men who have suffered in whatever awful ways, often abuse women on their road to healing. And, as in this piece, the suffering of those women is kind of written…

I completely agree. I feel sorry for what happened to him as a child. But I also feel sorry for the women who suffered the gaslighting and abuse he visited upon probably dozens of them in his life. But, how can a man truly claim real suffering, if he hasn’t visited more suffering on women? 

I finally went to therapy for the first time. Hardest thing I’ve ever done - and going back each week was the next hardest thing I’d ever done.. until it wasn’t.

So well written. This reminded me a lot of my childhood and life - the knowing that I wasn’t really a man because men can’t be raped. The shame and depression. For me it was years long sexual abuse from my step father and there are multiple times in my life where the fallout from those years nearly destroyed my life…

“Right to work” States are ones that allow you to work in a unionized field without being a member of that union. An “Open Shop” means that both union and non-union members can be employed. A “closed shop” means that only union members can be employed OR you agree to join the prevailing union upon hire.

I particularly liked that part. The irony. It runs so deep.

“Anger is not empowerment” says the man shouting at and physically intimidating a person who disagrees with him.

I’m putting a crisp tenner on the table, by next week, we’ll hear from at least one or more women who’ll have a story about their “interactions” with this poor excuse for a human-person...

I always get pissed off about these types of motivational speakers that view any type of externalization of blame as “victimhood” or “blaming others.” It always reads, to me, like what they’re trying to do is guilt you and make you dislike yourself so that you’ll buy their next book/attend their next seminar on how to…

I thought the dad’s comment was supportive of his son and the other protestors.

As a dad, I’m shaking with rage at the thought of the school board president telling those children they owe the school resource officer an apology.

I don’t know if I’m incredibly sad or enraged. Maybe both.

If you have the time, please read the story. It is insightfully harrowing and definitely not the only case of this that has gone around in the industry.