Over the course of my life I have had THREE. Genetic and twice adopted. Guess how many I have in my life right now? Go ahead. Guess. You know what I would have missed having none from the get go? Drug addiction, gambling addiction, sexual abuse, mental/emotional abuse, a litter of dead puppies, racism, sexism,…

You might be projecting here. Gella hasn't said anything about her status regarding kids at all. And there are plenty of kids who will tell you that their father sucked and you're the lucky one. Everyone's situation is different.

Creating children who are wanted? Women having complete control over their reproductive choices? Right wing gathering goes full "Scanners".

You blame the victims, you say they have half the culpability. That's rape apology right there. You blame feminists for taking away young girls' agency, yet ignore the way these older sleazeballs are trying to do just that with booze. I'm quite happy calling you a rapist apologist as long as you continue to blame…

The male equivalent of female circumsion would be someone cutting off most of a guy's whole penis, not cutting off the foreskin. The two are not equivalent.

Yeah, that little false equivalency is as stupid and ignorant as it is insulting. They are by no means the same thing, what's done to girls is much different than what is done to boys, and it is much more brutal and sordid. Female "circumcision" is almost never done by a medical professional, it is done to make a girl…

As a woman who has only ever been with un-circumcised guys, I have always found the "he is uncircumcised, ew?" thing a little confusing. I suppose you just get used to what you know. Until I was about 17 I honestly thought that it was just a thing a minority of jewish and muslim boys had done, and then I saw the…

Um. I would say there is an "adversity advantage along gender lines" all through high school— and before. Do most boys deal with getting objectified and cat-called even before puberty and forever after? Do boys not get called on as often and not have implicit assumptions made by teachers about their ability based on…

Do you live in constant fear of violence and death? Constant? Like when you walk to the corner store to buy milk? When you're working out? When you go the bathroom at a bar? Because that's how often women fear sexual violence.
Do you constantly EXPERIENCE violence? Like when you ride the bus for ten minutes? Or go up…

" Women are failing to see how a hysteria has started that asserts any of their fellow men folk are potential rapists"

Really? Because the men I know who are genuinely good people who care about women and violence against women do this. They understand the way that women live, the constant fear, and they feel the need and desire to make it a bit better.

You sounded sort of supportive in your first post but everything you've said since…

You don't see an issue with trying to derail a conversation about issues that women face everyday, all over the world, to varying degrees of intensity... so that you can talk about the problems that men face? THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU. Why can't you just listen, and accept and try to empathize? We'll get to your stuff.

Do you step in and do something when you see a man assaulting or harassing a woman? Because every time a man hassles me, I see a lot of men who probably aren't rapists or nothin' just standing around. I once saw a man throw his girlfriend across the room and pull a fistful of hair out of her head. I couldn't get any…

No, I have no idea what it's like to be a man, but if I'd turn myself into a man in a split-second if I could. Would you rather be a woman?

"Women are failing to see how a hysteria has started that asserts any of their fellow men folk are potential rapists."

"It's true that I don't walk around with fear of being raped..."

Thank you for proving my point - you can't sit and fucking listen. Go figure.

IT IS ABOUT A UNIQUELY VULNERABLE SITUATION THAT WOMEN HAVE IN SOCIETY.

This violence IS unique to women. Men (straight white ones, especially) don't wander around with the fear of others raping them. Men generally don't have to worry about things being slipped in their drinks to the same extent that women do, men who…

Really, though? That's not what this article is about. Of course violence targeted at males exists, and it's something we should talk about, but that's not what this article is about. Women's experiences are valuable, and it's important that people listen. Please stop derailing discussions about rape and violence…