Funny, my best friend (a woman) gave me Laphroaig for my first whisky and now I won’t drink anything that doesn’t come from Islay. It’s a taste that most people don’t enjoy, but a single malt from the islands is not “crap” lol.

Agreed! I drink Laphroaig almost exclusively and won’t touch anything that doesn’t come from Islay.

Venus depicted the epitome of female sexuality. And your obsession with Nefertiti’s bust is just irrelevant—artistic busts are rarely if ever a genuine likeness. You’re drawing a lot of random conclusions and presenting them as stubborn fact without having any kind of logical argument to back up your claims. You’re…

It’s really strange to me that you’ve fixated on one Egyptian woman (Nefertiti) to the point of taking an artistic bust of her head, deciding that its an accurate likeness, extrapolating what you think her body “must” have looked like, and then concluding that therefore, our current beauty standards have been the…

Doesn’t resentment toward women usually stem from a sense of entitlement—that men have been taught to believe they are “owed” a woman? Whereas women are less likely to harbour a sense of societally-fuelled entitlement toward sexual partners.

I think there’s also a difference between scrubbing off the raw sewage of someone you care for and scrubbing off the raw sewage of a few thousand + strangers after it’s been through the toilet and flowing in the streets.

I’m confused as to why people will contort themselves into all kinds of positions to excuse men who behave poorly and claim that the women hurt by said men are the real liars and jerks.

Exactly. It is massively unethical to have relationships with anyone who is more or less your employee. My husband is an ex-actor and would be the first to tell you that. Can you be a male feminist and use your career position to have affairs with young women who look up to you/depend on you, even if it’s…

Nobody’s saying you have to be perfect to be a feminist, but I think the bare minimum for a man claiming to be a feminist would have to be you avoid doing things like gaslighting your wife and endangering her health for 15+ years to the point that she develops PTSD.

Well she didn’t raise him, for one thing, and even if she did—it’s not “political bullshit,” it’s people’s lives. You’re lucky if you have the privilege to ignore politics because it’s all just abstraction to you. For many of us, politics = our lives. If anyone doesn’t value my life and safety, I cannot have a genuine…

It’s so tiring that we can’t have a conversation about women feeling pressured to groom their bodies in a certain way without being shrieked at about “choice feminism.” It’s fine if you want to shave your pubic area, but can we please stop pretending it’s 100% personal choice, has nothing to do with how you were…

I genuinely thought it was satire (mocking people who do nothing), but I don’t know enough of her work really. And perhaps it is too close to the very real “ignore them and they’ll go away” advice we’ve been hearing since 45 was first nominated. We all know how “just ignoring them” turns out.

Cups don’t matter—a tiresome misconception that leads so many women to wear the wrong bra size. Cups are how round your breasts are. It’s the band size that indicates how big your boobs are. I’m a D cup but wear 30 band. My chest is pretty flat and I wear a size small bralette. If the OP has C cups and a wide band,…

I just gave my bridesmaid a colour (pastel/mint green) and told her to buy whatever dress she wants that in her opinion fits that colour description. I think she’s probably getting something for £20 on eBay (she said she found one she liked). I’m giving her a necklace as her gift, but I know her really well and know…

This. I have a lot of trouble standing in transit, partly from extreme claustrophobia and partly from back/dizziness issues, but I look just fine so there’s really no way for me to ask for a seat without it becoming An Issue. The most I can do is squeeze in next to manspreaders and pointedly make them close their legs…

It doesn’t matter if he is a pedophile or not! By looking at pornographic images of children, he’s directly contributing to their sexual abuse. And because you think he “only” did it occasionally, that somehow makes it okay?

Can we not with the whole “I don’t believe in monogamy” thing? You don’t get to decide that “most relationships would be better as open.” I fully believe in poly/open relationships; it’d be nice to get the same respect back. Especially since my monogamous tendencies stem largely from falling on the asexual spectrum;…

Yes, this. When I met my fiance, I was in a relationship about 3-4 months old with a different guy. I was slowly realising I was unhappy in the relationship—the guy was pushing for us to get really serious really fast (talking about moving in with me), the sex was painful and I wasn’t as attracted to him as I was when…

I think theres a big difference between blaming a woman if your husband cheats, which is what the article is addressing, and being irritated by women hitting on your clearly married husband sitting next to you—that’s just rude across the board for all genders.

But when one side of the argument boils down to “here is a list of all the people we would like to continue to oppress,” and you’re on it several times over? That’s not a valid argument. That’s not debateable. We really need to end this idea that there’s a valid two sides to every argument that needs to be respected.…