Reasonable amount of pressure is subjective, however in my personal experience most women use very little pressure while men vary significantly based on their personality.

This is my point exactly.

All that demonstrates is that the feminist would rather pretend her "approved" feminist friends are flawless and all those feminists who use words you don't approve of are magically sexist.

Actually the world is a better place now than it has been at any point in history.

Haha, wow, this comment is from 2010.

I was one of those annoying students who always has something to say in class, and always plays devil's advocate, but in this case I think I would have been applauded for calling this woman out on her shit.

Haha, that's for sure.

While I wouldn't stop giving a shit about gender politics, I do believe the vast majority of people who get offended by stuff ARE spinning themselves to an angry grave.

Agreed, I just didn't think that part deserved the kind of anger it received. Heck, I don't think the whole thing deserves the criticism it is getting.

Which is anecdotal, hardly a statistic. I would also argue that the women of this site, while diverse, do fall into a more homogenous attitude towards certain things.

That being said, outside of your thread (but in this article's comments) there are plenty of women saying that they don't want to be asked.

Way to make a blanket statement.

Actually real life isn't so clean cut.

While I may not have been trained to treat women the way he was ("beauty of character"? huh?), I WAS trained to treat women according to 2nd-wave feminism more than 3rd-wave feminism, and this has required me to reteach myself a lot over the years.

Actually Obama has a number of times complimented men on their looks out of context, some blogger made a list somewhere.

Right because Obama is not constantly complimented for his looks in situations entirely irrelevant to his looks.

Oh yeah, please show me the relevance of the thousands of comments of Obama's good looks I have read here and elsewhere by women and men alike. Trust me, they weren't in regards to Obama posing shirtless in a magazine.

Oh please, women are judged for their looks a lot more than men, but this DEFINITELY is said about men.

Actually if the man was handsome I would not be surprised to see an offhand joke about it.

What if she appreciated the compliment?

No because he is a straight man in a country that would have a fit over a comment like that.