Well, silly girls need men to tell them what to do in order to keep them safe, don'cha know. That's just one of the many ways in which traditional men show respect to women.

This is insane. I mean, it's crazy. Schools with attitudes like this should not exist in the 21st century. Attitudes like this should not exist in the 21st century. The fact that this article needs to be written, and that we're sitting here discussing this issue, is friggin' nuts.

The "different but equal" comment strikes me as fairly enlightened for someone who has traveled here in a time machine from the early 19th century.

There's a lot of comments here saying "it's part of my / their culture." This is annoying, because "it's my culture" can be used to justify ANYTHING. Sexism, for example? All cultural. For a very long time, it was part of the culture that a woman should stay at home, obey her husband, have no sex drive of her own,…

No kidding. Do you think there may be a reason for that? Like, for example, the fact that female nudity (with or without the excuse of being "artistic" attached to it) is about ten hundred bajillion times more common in our society than male nudity, and that this reflects the generally twisted way our culture treats…

Uh... yes. Thank you. :P In retrospect, I should have known it couldn't be Supergirl, since there's no room for an "S" crest on that outfit...

I can't wait 'till someone develops the integrated redstone circuit...

Is that the modern equivalent of "can it run Crysis?" :P

Finally, a male version of that ridiculous Supergirl chest-window! :P

I think you are mis-characterising what you yourself wrote.

Really? Stories like this keep coming up over, and over, and over again... And I doubt all, or even most, such incidents make it into an article such as this one. It doesn't seem that rare. Also, there's a pretty consistent cultural factor behind these instances of harassment — i.e. men acting entitled to sexually…

But if that's your approach, then what's the point? You can totally shut down any discussion on any topic by simply responding to any criticism or disagreement with "well, this is just my opinion." I mean, what's the point of even starting a discussion, then?

Oh, well, as long as you're only claiming that MOST men feel this way MOST of the time, I guess we have to accept your statement as truth by default! No need for any evidence or anything, thanks to the awesome power of Common Sense (tm).

Given how these stories are piling up, I'm shocked that companies at these events keep having "booth babes" at all. You'd think they'd catch on how creepy the culture at these exhibitions and conventions often ends up being, and would try to do something to change that culture — if only to get good PR, and possibly…

So because you'd feel embarrassed if caught staring at someone (rightly so — you should be embarrassed in such a case) you somehow manage to heroically overpower your DNA, and not stare. Amazing! It's almost like our genes do not, in fact, control our every move, or force us to do things by putting a gun to our head!…

Um. I think the obvious message here is that behaviours like this are disturbingly common, and that that is the problem. If there was, like, one guy at the convention who sexually harassed someone, then you could say "oh, just because one person was creepy you're afraid of small talk?" (Well, actually it'd still be a…

Yet many of these professionals seem to be unable to behave themselves appropriately. Other things being equal, I would have a lot more respect for a poorly dressed person with poor personal hygiene, but who somehow managed not to sexually harass others, than for a perfectly dressed, squeaky clean professional who…

"I'm Idaho!"

As a male, I think I get what Collins is saying with that description of "clinical" pornography. A lot of mainstream nekkid pictures, both "straight" and "gay," seem to be like that. The aesthetic doesn't particularly attract me either, but I guess everyone is different...

I think what you're describing, and hatred of women, are one and the same. Being willing to kill and be killed to keep women confined to one archetype is a sign of very deep hatred of women. If a militant is willing to kill any woman who doesn't fit into a subservient, traditional role, then he hates women as human…