The patriarchal model is ahistorical nonsense. The specific model of it that you’re imagining (man breadwinner, woman at home) has existed only for an eyeblink of human history, and patriarchy itself arose only with private property.

I’m tired of the idea that social justice work should be all about altruism. Solidarity is something that benefits everyone who engages in it: in lifting up others and joining their fight, you lift yourself, and THAT’S OK. Voluntourism, of course, does not fit into this model, but using your platform as a well-known…

This is a great article, but this paragraph made me so sad because this mom’s expectations are so abysmally low:

Yeah, screw that whole idea of “democracy.” And clearly, this system gives us the smartest leaders, like George W. Bush!

All that and she’s only 8/10 pleased with how she looks? I can’t decide whether to cry, or track her down and demand the rest of her money because she’s wasting it so terribly.

I mean, I feel 8/10 happy with how I look some days, and I’ve NEVER given up sugar or gluten, much less let a professional play with my butt.

Yeah, when I saw that I was like THAT IS AN ACTUAL CHILD and I am not ok with that.

Ah, but without police and security guards, we would all be able to freely take rich people’s stuff.

Let’s be clear: forcing you to NOT have an abortion is forcing you to GIVE BIRTH. there is no in-between.

She simply thinks it will never happen to her. Which, I mean, to be fair, so does everyone, until it happens to them.

It’s still a war on women, it’s just not only being waged on women by men.

You are incorrect about whether these are gendered. Obviously they are not inherent, but the behaviors themselves are distinctly linked to gender in our society and your denial about that is frankly puzzling. (And, you call yourself a feminist, right? And you’re a guy, right? Expert male feminist tip: when women tell…

Both behaviors are gendered. What’s wrong with naming them accurately?

“Add to this gendered shaming tactics such as manspreading or man splaining, one often loses the will to engage...”

Soooo... the person misbehaving here isn’t the person taking up two subway seats, or the person treating an adult woman like she’s stupid - it’s the person who calls him on it?

You got it backwards, bro.

Nope. Not only is my mom pro-choice, but she took me to the clinic to get an abortion... and, she wouldn’t have even been born if my grandmother hadn’t had two abortions.

My grandmother, who was a bit of a rebel, had two abortions at some point in the 1930s or thereabouts - she had a long affair with a guy she couldn’t marry because she was Jewish and he was Christian, and she had to travel to Paris from her home in Latvia to get the abortions.

I just kind of love this picture.

this shouldn’t be nearly as funny as it is.

SERIOUSLY.

Oh, seriously, fuck you.

Definitely too many in this case.