Thinking about a baby being swept away from her mother's arm isn't sad. It transcends sad and enters into a world of tragedy that I can't really comprehend. Even if I have had tragic things happen to me, it doesn't matter because in some ways I can't comprehend tragedy even when it's my own. You know how after some…

A 19-year-old dude pulled over while he was driving home and offered her a ride. She wasn't wandering around "bad neighborhoods" and walking into random buildings.

Yes men deal with this too. Nathaniel Hawthorn writes about it in The Marble Faun. Though it's not about women as much as it is about Roman ruins. He's basically like "Don't go see the Coliseum, just read Byron's description of the Coliseum. It's better that way. And if you go to Rome and see the Coliseum, you'll just…

Right but this article wasn't about the relative morality of their cheating. It was about public reaction to the fact that they cheated.

I think the texian side was fighting to liberate themselves from Mexico. And I use the word "liberate" fairly freely here.

THANK YOU. I was just about to post this. It's like, do people even know what these references actually mean? Do these people not understand that words have actual meanings, agreed upon by everyone that listens to them, and that they can't just decide that a word—like "Alamo"—means whatever they want it to mean? That…

Don't worry, I'm not insulted that you, anonymous internet commenter, think I'm stupid. I am secure enough in my own obviously superior intellect to not be threatened by your misogyn-logic.

Nobody needs to pressure you to be a heterosexual. The culture does that; it's called heteronormativity. In order to be welcoming to non-hetero people, you need to go out of your way.

This is hilariously dumb. There are so many problems with the logic of comparisons here.

Rape doesn't just happen. You know what just happens? Lighting. Snowstorms. Earthquakes.

You can keep more than one thought in your head at the same time, huh? Well congratulations.

There's no "sort of kidnapping" in Beauty and the Beast. It's just plain old kidnapping.

More proof that misogyny is really really stupid.

And people ask why I say shit like "I hate men." 18 men and boys? That is some poisonous masculinity right there.

Well, first of all, where her parents are is beside the point. You don't know that her parents didn't question where she was; you don't know whether they thought she was at a friend's house; you don't know about their reaction. For that matter, you don't know whether they're abusive and deserve to be jailed, too. Her…

I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Institutionalized anything is when [thing] becomes part of the fabric of life, so that it's just accepted and naturalized (or nearly so).

"But institutionalized sexism doesn't have to mean that its practitioners are terrible people who want to bring women down. It can also be people who don't know what they don't know, and take for granted that everyone else knows the same things"

I think that it's less "anti-Israel" and more "dedicated to reporting facts," which just tends to look bad for Israel. American news seems awfully pro-Israel because they either do not report all the facts or they bury them. I remember Anderson Cooper reporting on the Israeli-Lebanon conflict in 2006, and he was like,…

I wonder how he accounts for gay men who don't like showtunes? They do exist, you know.

Did you read my final note, about how for some individuals it's about enjoyable fun? Because that's the opposite of pigeonholing. I was talking about the cultural obsession with anal sex—which is a relatively new phenomenon. The cultural obsession with anal sex is about domination, even if the act isn't necessarily.…