Right. It's like some people apply some special prerequisite for gays.

Do you really think there are no 11 year olds who felt attracted to the opposite sex either?

Transmen don't need to want to have a penis. All any adult has to do to be a man is to identify as one.

This got me thinking.

This is partly why I get a little creeped out when people gender their pets. Obviously it doesn't "hurt" the pets being called "she" or "he," but it does remind me of gender essentialism.

I don't think we're going to come to an agreement here. I would say that his answer would only be remarkable if he included how other men/people are treated in addition to women.

If you're not bothered at all by what people expectant/etc from you based upon your gender, that's great for you. But many people ARE bothered, and it's not something that's always, if ever, a matter of choice.

It's nothing new. In many cultures for many years, there is an expectancy that a man is supposed to treat women special - even beyond sexuality. This is of course part of the patriarchy and assumption that women are more fragile or needy than men (hence the need to act in a special way around them), but it's not as if…

I don't think it's moral to define someone's gender as man/woman/whatever beyond what the person in question says they are. Culture has it's place, certainly, but when they are hurting and hindering people with their gender roles/expectancies/etc, I don't believe criticism and possible further action (legally, for…

There are a lot of people, who for whatever reason, cannot readily support others. This may include people who are disabled in some way, who may in addition also not be able to support themselves. Are they all girls/boys/children then?

It's not at all uncommon for men to judge each other based upon their relationship with women.

I wish we didn't have gender to begin with.

Somehow, the revision on the left angers me more than the original on the right...

It already happened.

I'm not really suggesting that the "X-Men" name is changed...but instead I was bringing up that the word "men" has sexist elements if it's intended to also mean all people. It's not a criticism against X-Men exactly, but the english language structure. Apparently most of the ~14+ people who responded to me didn't…

I do agree. My only objection is when people say men and women characters are objectified in the same way in comics.

To be honest, I've seen far less civility from the opposite crowd in this debate.

Militant should only be used in cases of violence or support of violence. I fucking hate when peaceful feminists and atheists are called militant.

Ideally, people should not determine their self-worth by popular culture, but the ideal is not reality, and people's perceptions are not always within their immediate control (especially when they are younger and more impressionable).

I would say that there is probably a greater link to rape/harassment from sexual objectification of women than there is violence from objectification of men to their muscles. But yes, they are both bad...my main problem here, aside from the existence of objectification to begin with, is when people try to equate the…