I believed that *personally* once. But I was like... 7, probably. I feel like I get a pass for half-baked political opinions since I'd just learned my multiplication tables. Plus, my family was all Republicans, so I think I was a little ahead of the curve. Okay, now I just feel like I'm bragging.

Yeah, sorry. 'White-looking' was an insensitive/ethnocentric choice of phrase, for sure. I meant more like, Zimmerman could pass for white to the degree that anyone who saw him and heard his name would probably assume that he was white—but, unlike what you said,I think she might be getting at the idea that many of his…

Well, it's not so much 1955 as 1990s. I'm only 20, and I remember how, once upon a time, 'I don't mind if they're gay as long as they don't FLAUNT IT,' was kind of a liberal position. Thank goodness it isn't anymore.

I thought he was, though. Is that me being ignorant? Seriously, if I believe something racist, I'd like to be corrected.

But isn't Zimmerman a white-looking/named Latino? Or am I even more clueless than I thought..?

In a different thread, I said (basically) that if you told me 99.3% women had been sexually harassed anywhere, I'd be shocked it wasn't 100%. I'm gonna have to reiterate: Are we sure it's not 100%?

Accounting for street harassment, workplace harassment, etc, etc, if you told me 99.3% of American women had been sexually harassed, I would be shocked it wasn't 100%.

That last one... correct me if I misunderstand, but she's criticizing Zimmerman's supporters, isn't she? What's the issue there? Am I missing something?

I was thinking something to that effect. Didn't manage to figure out how to say it as eloquently.

I feel like I've heard this before. Or maybe I'm just having feminism deja vu?

I'm going to go ahead and say I would've thought this was AWESOME as a kid. I'd have wanted to have allergies just so I could have one (partially 'cause kids have fucked up priorities).

And that's where I'm saying NO. It is not her fucking responsibility to make sure he doesn't make assumptions about her interest, the same way it was not my responsibility to stop kissing my male friends on the cheek and telling them they look sexy in tuxes because one weirdo construed that as my wanting to be his…

I don't know you well enough to know the situation, and I've literally read none of the thread that you wrote because your response to me is out of left field and I don't really feel obligated to—but most people who tell people whom they are dating that they're suicidal—men or women—are being manipulative and…

I was stalked for weeks by a guy who told me again and again all the things I 'shouldn't have done if I didn't want to be his girl,' after the fact. That sort of talk DOES contribute to rape culture and sexual violence. In conclusion: You can go ahead and fuck off now.

No, it really isn't. The quote stigmatizes and demeans people who suffer from mental illness. As a classroom assistant in a special needs school, I'm glad people get worked up about things like that.

Nothing but agreeing to be an item is agreeing to be an item. That sounded a lot like 'she was asking for it' logic, and that grosses me out.

They may well be—but it's common practice to mathematically account for likely lying in self-report studies. I'm not sure what their data-taking and allotment techniques were, and frankly, I don't care, because this study is pretty darn useless.

The infidelitous men must have cheated with someone, and I have a hard time believing it was with all the same women.

Wait... 2000 points gets you a case of yogurt, but 1000 gets you 7?

I think I agree with you. It seems a little too sloppy to be done by someone who actually cares about it, you know? But again, pure speculation.