Hopeless_Chromantic
Hopeless_Chromantic
Hopeless_Chromantic

I'm disagreeing mainly with the lede. That's superfluous to even the video itself, in a way.

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Don't feed the trolls, people. They don't deserve to derail this conversation. This post is important and we don't need to be sullying our hands with #notallmen whiners right now. Please and thanks.

I think sexism absolutely played a roll in Rodgers' actions.

"Not all men," vmavo muttered, satisfied that his contribution to the internet would be recorded for future generations to admire. Putting on his fedora, he combed his neckbeard and walked out into the world.

That the police don't deal well with the mentally ill is a truism and a discussion for any other article on the matter. This is about the misogynistic entitlement that contributed.

I'm calling straight up bullshit on your understanding of what click-bait actually is.

If a tornado had interrupted the finale of Lost, I would have been thankful.

Where's the line to be one of those friends? Cause drinking beer and eating wings with Sir Patrick Stewart sounds like the best thing ever.

Because whatever way this shakes out, it's totally horrible. If the alleger is telling the truth, then Conor is a rapist- the awfulness is obvious. If she's lying, then a thoroughly decent (feminist! ally!) man is being defamed in an astonishingly horrible way- not to mention the implications this would have in terms

What's so weird about these "give the milk away for free" types is that they never consider the other side of the equation.

I liked it. Not the BEST mystery I've ever read, but decent.

Women are socialized from a very early age to be indirect and to avoid giving offense to others, especially men, even when it puts other people's interests before their own. So they tend to deflect or offer soft "no's" instead.

Because of this:

This was obviously a response to a question I submitted. I cannot thank lifehacker enough for posting this. I literally cried as I read this.

I'm bitter? Why? Because I'm pointing out how thin people who claim oppression are living in a false reality? Is it because I'm not listening to their tales of how being told to eat a sandwich is the same as years of prejudice and hate fat people have had to endure?