HaiThar
HaiThar
HaiThar

What I find so scary about this incident and Elliot's connection to these PUA groups is that what he did is the logical end point of the Nice Guy™ ethos. Nice Guys™ go through life with this sense that their love is unrequited and that they are being under-appreciated, all while never actually indicating to the object

Try being plus-sized.

Oh good, Small, Medium and Large. The sizing index where nothing fits correctly except t-shirt and pajama pants.

Two people you don't know went to Ireland and you feel strongly enough about it to post something online. That says more about you than it does about them.

That's effing ridiculous. They have money. They got married in Europe. They went on their honeymoon in Europe. They're doing normal stuff. Other people are reporting on it. None of that is about status or desirability or how you're supposed to feel about it. You're projecting because you just don't like them.

Their next normcore vacation to the Wisconsin Dells

Some days you just get tired of telling people obvious shit.

Dear #NotAllMen,

I had to take a break to go cry in the office bathroom while writing it, so I feel you, sister.

I am furious right there with you girl. And here is why. I don't want to be afraid of men. I don't want to think that anytime I walk past a man and I am alone I need to be on the defensive. I don't want to cringe when I am out for a jog and a car pulls up on the side of the road to park and all I can think about

God, I'm so sorry all that happened to you and that you had to go through it alone.

No joke, I've been posting since at least 2008, and I have gotten rid of accounts and stopped posting altogether several times since this place becomes more and more of a troll convention with each passing year. I lost a starred account in the first kinja switchover, and had to live and die in the gray comments for

"I'm furious that my parents ingrained in me from a very young age that I should never wear heels because I should always be ready to run at a moment's notice"

Same here. It is sad that it works. I felt intimidated at times after getting into a slight Twitter war with one individual because so many people were on her side, and I wondered if I would get threats afterwards. Seriously, this should not be the state of debating feminism.

From my experiences with being on that specific #yesallwomen thread I think one of the things I regret most is that Jezebel is not a safe space for ist commenters to speak their minds about issues like this anymore. I, too, had a #notallmen 'nice guy' write me a three page reply this morning telling me that I was

Thank you for this.

Honestly, the most chilling thing about all of this is being afraid to leave my name on any of these websites or threads because I am actually afraid of being chased down by a crazy man, intent on harming me because I dared speak up.

The best way to prove that you're not a misogynist is to deny that misogyny exists and believe that anyone who perpetuates the idea that MAYBE IT DOES is just a fat, bitter cunt.

He says the expulsion has made it impossible for him to start his job at a Wall Street firm